Monday, 29 December 2008

been at expo for the past 3 days. i seriously think i spent my last 3 days immersed in Buddha teachings and chantings.

day 1 (27th dec)
i replaced daddy to volunteer at the Amitabha Buddhist Society Dharma Conference 2008 at expo hall 1 (in chinese they call it 法会). nothing much about what i do. simply sell the mp3 players with the Buddha chantings and the lotus lamps (that changes colour every 2 seconds! - i think they're quite nice, its just that they change the lights a little too fast, they make me dizzy.) mummy was with me the whole time. yes, we did more "shopping" and eating (yes! the food was so good! porridge for breakfast, rice with potato, vege and cabbage! there was free flow of food and drinks - soya bean, coffee, herbal tea of all sorts, fruti juices, burgers and bread with peanut butter, nutella, margarine spread.. dinner was duck rice! seriously, there's no need to worry bout having no food or going hungry) than helping out at the booth. mummy got me my first 佛珠 (those that i wear on my hands), and we 2 big bagfuls of 结缘品 (these 结缘品s are actually books or CDs on Buddha teachings and they will give us answers to all the "what, why, when, how, where" questions on Buddhism). hey hey, i got one CD that talks about physics and Buddhism! isn't that cool? i wonder how science and religion collide man! :x i've yet to watch the dvd yet, but i really can't wait! mummy and i got home at about 11pm that night. really tiring day, cos we woke up at 6.15 in the morning and didn't sleep at all during the day.

day 2 (28th dec)
yet another life liberation. this time it was held at SAF Changi Yacht house or something. totally forgot the actual name of that place, but i do remember seeing lots and lots of yachts. i was so facinated really. i love the view of the sea, as always. lovely morning, but the sun was too overwhelming, and yy nearly blacked out. well, the groupers were BIG, really BIG, nearly the size of my middle finger to my elbow. and they were all so so heavy! gosh. went back to expo for lunch, vegetarian, yes! rice with potato, some green vege and some fried toufu! yes, myk, i had 2 servings. i was freaking hungry. i didn't eat dinner there, sobbs. anw, mummy went out for a gathering with her SJAB friends (for the first time in dno how many decades). err. its so weird not having her at home. i decided not to sms or call her, since the 2 other sisters were already hogging mummy's precious time with her friends. and... i spent the miserable night playing rollercoaster on my handphone.

day 3 (29th dec)
i woke up at officially at 11.15a.m. (in mummy's vocabulary it's 12noon). happily slept all the way and ate 2 paos for brunch. trained down to expo again, cos today its the final day and the day to chant for the 往生者s. (yes, we added mama's name to the list). we missed the first phase, but we managed to stay on for the last 2 phases. ate dinner and snack there. i seriously find their vegetarian food super up to standard. how i wish i can have food like these everyday! right. mummy got me a charcoal material key chain. its apparently hanging on my phone now. charcoal is supposed to reduce radiation, well.. i guess i need the 3kg pack one, since, i'm always on my laptop and handphone. uhh. imagine me sleeping on a pillow filled with those charcoal used for bbq. wow. oh yea, i extorted a pair of slippers from mummy. hahas, kinda forced her to buy it for me. i was so into the mood of bullying people. diao. anw, erjie got her slippers too. stayed all the way until the end of the whole session, cos daddy, shushu and biaoge had a special mission. oh yea, they are the so-called "unregistered Buddhists" cos they haven't gone thru the ceremony, but yet they bought their 海清s! hahas, daddy looked like some jap samurai. really funny. and the 3 of them were so amused by their new attires that they can't help showing off their joy when erjie helped to take photos of them. uhh. not funny wor. right, reached home around 11.30p.m. really tired.

i'm still trying to eat as much grass as possible. the thought of sinking my teeth into chicken really puts me off. i think the 49 days of vegetarian did really give some impact on my diet. i'm not totally on grass, but i think i'm a 80% herbivore and a 20% carnivore (owing to the fact that i still dare to eat fish, and some types of pork).


i've still got so much stuff undone.
the speech contest, IAM assignment, and some other school work i really have no idea about, the camp, meeting eileen the great, sleep more, clean up my supposedly messy table, buy my bagpack....

yes, my bloody phone is gonna get repaired tmr. yes! no, BOO! cos it's the 4th time i'm sending in for repair!

sony sucks! eww. and LOUSY customer service.

Thursday, 25 December 2008

lots to update.

hiked from NH all the way up mount faber via pasir panjang wholesale centre, hort park and those park connectors. really lovely view from the above. i mean i seriously enjoyed the walk, even though we did the recee in the afternoon at 1pm!!
thought we'd have a nice bus ride down from mount faber, but only yo find out that the bus service is only available on weekends.hooray! so hiked all the way down back to harbourfront. took 100 and dropped at queensway to settle the camp and class tees. all settled by 7.15pm (i think). yaozhong's parents dropped me at some bus stop near np and bussed back in 67. and yaozhong actually asked me to send him an sms when i got home safely! omg. i mean, who on earth would actually do this? it was really nice of him to do so. really nice.

6B's sentosa gathering was awesome! i actually had so much fun during the skyride and luge (with special thanks to JM and zhengyang). and zhengyang had his really pathetic broken cylindrical chocolate birthday cake. it was totally smashed, cos the luge ride down had been real shaky.

grandma's 7th seven. yes. it has been more than 49 days already. and now my lovely
grandma is on the altar. yes. and 49 days just passed like that. time does fly.

went back to nh during sec 1 registration. the only highlight was that siian and i re-did the camp briefing for the camp, during the council's debrief. woah. and then siian was so kind to cab me to je mrt. hurried back home to pack for my chalet stuff.

family chalet was loads of crap. crazy bonkers. it was the beach and the beach and more of the beach. well, nothing much to do there other than just watching the sea and those boats to ubin flying to and fro across the waters. and not forgetting mahjong and tv and BBQs. i think we did mahjong quite a bit. imagine, 3 days! of cos the highlight was the match between arsenal and liverpool. great stuff. esp those goals man. and i won't ever forget the comentary that guzhang gave. "if u want 2-2 ah... then... u have to wait lor." good stuff.i did take alot of pictures, took this chance to display my stupid photographic talents. -.-" right. the picutres are becoming the wallpapers on my lappy now. and guess what? a 4D3N chalet cost us nearly 900 photos! great. now i have to find a way to upload everything on facebook. and i'm so thankful that there is this
invention called a digital camera. imagine if 900 photos has to be developed.
goodness.

i'm so into facebook now, that i actually forgot that i had a blog.

it's time to get busy with council camp! and it's gonna take place in a week's time! i seriously can't wait man. hahas.


oh yea, merry x'mas!

Saturday, 13 December 2008

i'm totally drained from the ecp outing and work. and there is a meeting at 9.30 am tmr. and a primary school gathering at sentosa on monday.

i guess i only have my tuesday and thursday free. wednesday is that very lame workshop for speechraft. and friday is grandma's 7th seven. saturday till next tuesday is family chalet. and family outings on 26th and 27th. now that's left my 28th till 31st free before next year comes.

keeping in mind that council camp is on the 2nd & 3rd of jan, the last few 'free' days of my holidays are fading away from me.

what a fun-filled and enriching holiday.

i'm so blessed.

and tired.

Sunday, 7 December 2008

There are some things in life that we miss and we wish to reminisce. When we very badly want those days to come back, we realise that it's impossible to turn back time and make them all happen again.

I miss all my friends from the SK trip. No matter how much I actually miss them, I fear to think about the trip. How I actually wish I didn't do those things to make myself so unpopular. Only if those things had never ever happened.

Huiling, stop saying that I'm sociable. If I really am, I wouldn't have this name: "extra" or be out-casted by so many last time. Freak.

I wondering: why hasn't anyone dreamt of Grandma yet? Is Grandma really fine out there? When will Grandma send a sign to let us know that she is fine?

I miss her. I really do.

Grandma, where are you?