A Sunday Not Like Most Others

Let's start with the end of the day.

I will be sleeping in my single sized bed in camp, near the "commando mosquitoes and bedbugs base". Before sleeping I will spray OFF on my exposed skin areas to combat these evil creatures of Pasir Laba. Before that I will be decked out in my army slacks full with socks and a sweater to cover my body leaving only the face and my hands exposed.

Papa will drive me back to camp just after I finish this entry. I am blogging this hasty entry now.

I spent more than an hour preparing for camp, I don't know why, somehow I just finish at 11pm all the time regardless of what time I start packing!

Had a late 9pm dinner. Bought OFF insect repellant from Bukit Panjang Plaza.

*Liang Zhi ah... Kuai dian ah...*

Ok let me tell you why today is different, a different kind of Sunday. I actually liked today's sermon, it moved me so that I actually responded for the altar call! My prayer is Mark 10:51b "Rabboni (Yeshua), I want to regain my sight!"

Ok goodnight! Pray for me, pray for the youth, pray for the local church, pray for the international church, pray for the world.

Orchard Jam at The Heeren

Castor & Pollux, consisting of Joey and Daniel serenaded the audience with f-i-f-t-e-e-n songs! They also got new fans I think, hehehe... Some girl remarked that Daniel plays really well and Joey can bloddy sing yeah!

The organisation of this whole Orchard Jam thing isn't the best lah, but AFUA is after all doing it for charity and giving a platform for budding songwriters and musicians, so kudos to AFUA for that!

B-U-T! The soundman actually didn't know how to work the mixer, Shaun saved the day and there sound from the microphones!

B-U-T! What good are microphones without mic stands?! So Joey sang with two mics one for Daniel and the other for himself!

So Shaun and I taped a mic onto the music stand, B-U-T! it was too short.

I then put the trolley under the stand, B-U-T! it was going to crush Daniel's beloved $300 pedal.

And then the soundman appeared with 2 mic stands and then he promptly disappeared leaving us basically to run our own show! Sound was ran by us, announcements - us, everything lah! It was fun running the show!

CFS' turn came and we just whacked, I felt strange playing the acoustic guitar standing and doing my whole "rockin' dance thing". Thank you dear friends for turning up for the gig, you guys make it worthwhile you know?

Jeanie rocks! .D

A Night Of Planned Hedonism

Ah, refreshed by a why, refreshing bath of course.

I, didn't club as I'd planned to. Cheekys had a rude doorman, Cocoa Latte (What a name!) had a 23y.o. age limit and Zouk, well it wasn't so much the place but rather the company.

So I joined Shuyu (luv) and Joyce (sexay) to watch Bridget Jones' Diary, The Edge of Reason. Is that the correct title? It was a nice romantic comedy, unpredictably predictable, smart script laced with a lotta wit and very sexy british accents.

Back to why I didn't club... Why didn't I club? Frankly I have had bad experiences clubbing with these 2. (I don't want to sound self-pitying but alas it is the truth) These 2 always get the girls and not that it is my life mission to get a girl in the club but it is nice to have someone to dance with.

And countless times I told myself to go only when I have girl-friends going and of course countless times I went with these 2 only to dance with myself. Yes.

Back to earlier yes? I was withdrawing money for the cover charge to Zouk and this gush of the above mentioned thoughts and feelings hit me!

I knew, I could not pay $28 to dance alone! And so I went to watch the movie.

The Sun, the Sand and the Sea!

Navy Recruitment Centre is looking for a photographer, I might have a chance... that's if my current unit lets me leave... Please pray for me! I don't want to rot for two years.

3 Hours

Someway during the halftime mark of my after lunch (3 hour) nap, I was awoken by a phone call by Sharon. She and a mysterious friend called, screamed my name in the middle of Macritchie Resevoir and then hung up.

I went back to napping with a smile on my face, a nice peaceful smile! The smile stuck on my face for a while you know, like I can't stop smiling... Heh.

I now have a throbbing headache, 3 hours must've been too long a nap to nap.

What Exams?!

Rachel C, my dear friend has her first paper tomorrow and she doesn't feel any urgency at all.

Here's part of our msn conversation:

DOOB says:
haha you? no rush?

DOOB says:
strange..

Rach says:
yah man

Rach says:
strange rite

Rach says:
tt's y i feel so weird

Rach says:
like scared that i'm not scared

DOOB says:
some people take a while to reach this stage

DOOB says:
i was like that since i was 14

Rach says:
hah good for u

Rach says:
1st time lidis a bit scary

DOOB says:
you'll get used to it

Hell yes! You'll get used to it! Come on you undergraduates you know you won't fail one lah, relak a bit unless you are contemplating doing postgrad...

That Sound Your Heart Makes

Thumping? O you know how you make my heart skip when I see you on msn? Haha. If only you knew.

Church was okay today. Sometimes I feel preachers take the passages they expound on and overly interpret them instead of letting them speak for themselves, you know?

I'm always tired on Sundays, jam at WMUM was okay lah, Jon was uber tired, I was quite tired. I think Jenn's morale low low. We should just jam at Seng Chai next time guys... Jurong power!

Reply:

Joe thank you for your encouragement, I told you already. But yes here's a public proclamation, I love you bro! .D

Eli dearie, you don't know how much I miss you. We'll meet reaaally soon! Heart heart.

Oh and btw, take note ah!

27th November (Saturday) 6-7pmAcoustic Set @ Wheelock Place

CANCELLED28th November (Sunday) 6-7pmFull Set @ TakashimayaCANCELLED

11th December (Saturday) 6-7pmAcoustic Set @ Wheelock Place

12th December (Sunday) 6-7pmFull Set @ Takashimaya

Mercy Me Please

It sucks to have to go back to camp at night. I will go and sleep it away and I pray God will extend His mercy on me and I will wake in the morn, to see the beauty in this world, to live life and do all them exciting things in my years to come.

Maybe I'll watch Amelie again, woop then I'll dream of better days and my purrfect love, anything but those evil dreams I had in the day. *Amelie OST plays in the bckgrnd*

That Undescribable Feeling

This is getting too much to bear, that all too familiar feeling in the centre of your chest that bears down on me, like a weight that drags my heart down to my stomach. You know?

It's a pain right here.

So many thoughts running, uncertainties pertaining my future, i cannot say too much, too much at stake. Those who are close enough will know what I mean, and it sucks not being to say because I am not one to keep things closed up inside. But doing it that might be the only way of preserving my not-that-great life.

Actually it's not so undescribable, but I don't see that as the root of the problem, or do I? It cannot be, can it? But it bugs me so much and it just makes me fold up, cringe, I can't describe it, you know?

I'm ranting, there's a problem, I just don't know what!

Sleeping Disorders?

So tired was I that I did not switch on my computer last night I showered and headed straight to bed! It is an achievement for a net-a-holic like me.

Even that didn't help me wake up in the morning, it was tough. I got to camp, did a little work on the computer and went to sleep in my bunk. (I'm on some anti-histamin pills that make me drowsy)

I dreamt that the QM (my boss) came in and scolded me for sleeping and I woke up drowsily showed him my medicine and he just reprimanded me and... I can't remember the dream and then I woke up for lunch.

After lunch I had my pill again, so I slept again! Haha, you must see a pattern now... And I slept for an hour or so and I felt that damned feeling again! This time my friends from camp were banging tables and telling me to wake up shouting, "They are coming! They are coming!" in mandarin.

I just couldn't wake up! I was panicking, I forced myself to wake up and finally did after like a minute... Strange dreams, scary too!

I uh am so convinced that no one reads, 2 posts in succession without comments, hor?

Claire Is Really Back!

Claire's Flower Shop will be performing after a short vacation due to my army commitments.

There will be 4 (Yes FOUR!) upcoming gigs, starting next Saturday and Sunday (27th & 28th).

27th Nov (Sat)
6pm @ Wheelock Place

This one will be an Acoustic Set...

28th Nov (Sun)
6pm Outside Takashimaya

This one will be a rockin' Full Set!

Those of you who are always busy and cannot attend my gigs now have no excuse not to attend! Something must be wrong if you cannot come for all 4 gigs!

The Wedding

Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Loh! David & Audrey... They got married on Saturday and I had the privilege of witnessing it and also capturing it down on 'film'! It was very fun just being part of it, observing and hanging out with my dear brothers and sisters from church, I love the whole bunch, really.

Kudos to Shaun for eating his 11 bowls of shark's fin, you got your whole day's hard work worth!

The helpers got a cosy little room too! So we slept in Meritus Mandarin Hotel and went to church after a big breakfast at Taka food court! I went to church and slept in during the service... Haha, what Jon calls 'Interceding for the people'

Skipped lunch, went home and chilled, headed down to Bishan, The Tans' and played games, eat crispy noodles and drink Bu Shuang, the sparkling milk from Taiwan. Thank you Joey, you have a very comfortable bed. So those were the last three days, I don't usually blog events and happenings but I should update lah, take care one and all.

What a Day

Slackerooed my day in camp! Booked in, slept, read, lunch, slept, read, book out! I did some push ups in camp, that's all!

And then I came back determined to exercise, haha, so in the end I did...
4x25=100pushups
5x20=100crunches
10x50m=500m swim

I stopped only to stretch during the swim, and each lap took less than a minute and a half, but Joey said that sucks. .(

By the end of November I must do 20 laps at that pace, ok Joey? Jon and Jenn wanna swim with me? Run also can, but I'll die, haha.

Rockstardom

Not!

Just lugged my acoustic guitar in it's oversized-padded bag into the cinema (Shark Tale!) and then out of it onto the train back home. ...The day I get my hands on a car, or a car with a girl owner... Hehe

I wanna thank all who turned up for Recluse's lil acoustic set, many people, glad to know people come for us, (I am pretty sure it's not the music) you make it all worthwhile!

Sharktale was awesome, I love these make belief worlds! (or maybe they really dooo exist!) These dioramas, ahah! Beegword huh? Anyway the colours, the lame-ass jokes/puns, the characters were reaaally lively. It rocked lah! O! And the big names behind the voiceovers! WOW!

So now I sleep in front of my comp, typing away, sipping green tea and staring out into the cool clear night, so nice. Ok I must sleep now good night reader(s).

Wait I forgot something, I told Nicole this

"Sweet dreams leave you wanting more." - ME! with regards to the bottom post. Okay you can sleep now.

Holy (Cow!) Matrimony

I dreamt I was married! It was simple, not much of a ceremony, simple and nice. (I think I'm twisted) But it makes me happy thinking about it, like I'm grinning inside ya know?

"All my love affairs will end up in tears, 'cos it's something in my head. So please don't look that high, not over the eye, 'cos a quick look could kill it all." -It's on Everything, Last Days of April

The joy of the moment doused by my waking up.

Claire is Back

Just jammed with the Claire boys, loved it, I'm starting to riff more, I like! We had fun I think, did we?

Claire's Flower Shop will be back in action and playing gigs come December! Ask me when!

My End of The World

Today was my 2nd day in my new camp, it was very chillout for the most part. Tomorrow I meet my big boss whom they say is a scary person, but he'll be posted out soon, so hurray! But ultimately, I still want to be posted to either Armynews or SAF Film Unit.

My camp is a very old camp, much like the camps in the 70s... It's so small that I can see the end of the camp from the gate, about 300m.

It took me an hour to come home earlier, and on the bus was a very cute girl with a very patient mum. It was interesting to see them interacting, the girl had loads of questions and the mum was so patient, answering all of them one by one... The innocence touched me the most, kiddy actions, aiyah so beautiful lah. .)