Listening to David Lanz - Sound of Wings
A Long Post. It seems my posts are becoming longer and longer. Like a resurgence of blog postings a few months ago....
I already passed the basic theory as well as the advanced theory test. And now I'm going back to the driving centre to attend the lessons for both tests! What nonsensical logic is this? I feel its just a waste of time and my money. I think people who have passed the tests ought not to have to bother with the classes. Well, perhaps this is another suggestion for the "cut red tape panel".
Bumped into a number of AC people in the driving centre. Like I said before, it is almost impossible to go around this country without seeing a few AC people here and there. They are like almost everywhere. Just today, I bumped into my Zhennan, my former classmate, who is an ARMY COMMANDO SERGEANT. I guess what the class girls say of him is just so true:
"I think his head is too small for his body"
His handshake grip was crushing, not to mention all the finely ingrained lines of toned muscles on his arms being so obvious. I guess that's what 9 months of torture in the commando camp does. For Honor and Glory. Zhennan ws taking his FINAL RIDING PRACTICAL TEST. I have just registered to enroll in the school and he is like taking his driving test already. Talk about focus! I have so much free time on my off days, just that I chose to procrastinate and slack until its been more a year since school ended before I have decided to take up driving classes.
And then I bumped into an old neighbour of mine, who incidentally is also from ACJC as well. No other than the very well known Nic Misir! She's second from the right in the photo above. I've known her brother, also an AC boy for like practically my whole life in ACS. While Zhennan is like elite army material, her brother, Tim, just got downgraded in The Guards. Funny how come so many AC people I know are getting downgraded for all kinds of reasons or other.
The best thing is that my dad bumped into Tim and Nic's dad! How much of a coincidence! One thing that I have to really thank God for the Misir family is that they are like the first family to actually bring me to a church camp as well as putting me in CF. I remember when I was a primary 2 schoolboy, Tim's dad would pay for a taxi to send Tim and I to ACS for Christian Fellowship. That was more than 11 years ago back in the Coleman street campus. If not for them, I could safely say that I would have neglected God all through my younger years.
Not only that, 11 years ago, Tim's dad was one of the few people around with a computer to boot. I used to go over to Tim's house just a very very very short distance away to play with DOS commands on his dad's computer. Wonderful family, thank God for them.
Mum sent the cat to be sterilized today. Only at the clinic, we found out that the cat was not a SHE, but a HE and that it had been sterilized before! Wow! A day of surprises. Now my cat's half sedated and wandering around the house in a blur state of confusion. I found the whole thing hilariously funny. A cat which we think is a SHE turns out to be a HE.
I remember once back in ACJC, when Matt and I were having serious bible study on the Book of Daniel at the concourse during recess. Of course, after which I went back to LT 5 to crack jokes during the F Maths lecture. Matt told me that there has been more earthquakes in the world in the last 100 years than the whole period of time before thence. I'm not so sure how true it is, but one thing is for sure. I feel that natural disasters are seemingly becoming more and more common.
The Straits Times a few days ago reported nothing but a fatal gas leak, landslides, earthquakes, war, terrorism, SARS, financial gloom, unemployment, depression, Steve Chia and his nonsense and all kinds of depressing news. Perhaps I ought to just stick to the Life section of the paper which is so much more cheerful in relation to its other relative sections. Somehow, I feel that slowly that Matthew 24 is coming true before my very eyes. Not that I wish to speculate or anything, but it just feels that way. Like Shingles said to me, "open the papers, see what? nothing but f___ed up news!". I have to agree, honestly. Depressing period of time indeed.
The New Paper isn't faring any better. Its just a trashy tabloid that people buy only to read the last 6 pages of.
Sometimes I just wonder why people like to harp on doom gloom death and sadness. There is so much more happiness and joy around us that we humans seemingly chose to ignore. A dose of outdoor adventure always seems to distract me from the cares and concerns of his world and set my feet back on the ground and root me to "reality" that is of nature and simplicity as opposed to darkness and complexities.
"I'd chose the planetary sciences over the earth sciences anytime". I seem to find solace as well as peace by looking at the creations of the Lord evident in nature everywhere.
I've completed a reading of my second book, Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. Its a very good book, although dizzingly confusing at times. Both fact and fiction woven together with many double or even triple meanings in the text that seem to convey a huge myriad of thoughts to me. I like the clash between the the people, politics, science and religion and conspiracies. The twist at the end of the story is what makes it so enjoyable. Respect. I recommend a reading of it, although it might get a bit dry at times.
I think I screwed up my university applications. Although I can always apply next year, I feel that its just a complete waste of time and money. Sigh. Perhaps I ought to just remain in Singapore after all. I really wish to go overseas. Everyone seems to be going to the Top US universities: Ann Arbor, Berkeley, MIT, Harvard, Emory, Williams, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Duke, Carnegie-Mellon, Cambridge, Oxford, Cornell, Columbia, NYU, Boston U, Wash U, WUSTL, UCLA. Its crazy, I feel so small academically half my existence knowing that that all my life, I've been more or less brought up to pursue academics first. Nevermind, I'll just trust in the Lord even though the future seems to uncertain at times. Truly, when I am faithless or even unfaithful, God has always been faithful to me.
Feeling much better today, although I'm still more or less feeling sick. I'm contemplating whether or not to take MC tomorrow. I'm mulling on it because I get a few days off, the new year to myself. But yet again, I don't want to be seen as a slacker or a weakling taking MC for small things like this. I'll see how it goes tomorrow, whether I'm feeling better. But whatever it is, I'll miss out on a dinner today organised by one of the guys in church for all the guys in my church ministry. Another opportunity to meet and bond with other people wasted. Sigh. But nevermind, sometimes, I guess that certain things are just simply not meant to me.
I want the Nikon D2H! Or maybe the EOS 10D! Thanks Steph for referring me back to that site. Surfed through it before, but I never really took full value of what it offers until now.
And thanks for mei and Joline for your comments. I always appreciate them.
A Long Post. It seems my posts are becoming longer and longer. Like a resurgence of blog postings a few months ago....
I already passed the basic theory as well as the advanced theory test. And now I'm going back to the driving centre to attend the lessons for both tests! What nonsensical logic is this? I feel its just a waste of time and my money. I think people who have passed the tests ought not to have to bother with the classes. Well, perhaps this is another suggestion for the "cut red tape panel".
Bumped into a number of AC people in the driving centre. Like I said before, it is almost impossible to go around this country without seeing a few AC people here and there. They are like almost everywhere. Just today, I bumped into my Zhennan, my former classmate, who is an ARMY COMMANDO SERGEANT. I guess what the class girls say of him is just so true:
"I think his head is too small for his body"
His handshake grip was crushing, not to mention all the finely ingrained lines of toned muscles on his arms being so obvious. I guess that's what 9 months of torture in the commando camp does. For Honor and Glory. Zhennan ws taking his FINAL RIDING PRACTICAL TEST. I have just registered to enroll in the school and he is like taking his driving test already. Talk about focus! I have so much free time on my off days, just that I chose to procrastinate and slack until its been more a year since school ended before I have decided to take up driving classes.
And then I bumped into an old neighbour of mine, who incidentally is also from ACJC as well. No other than the very well known Nic Misir! She's second from the right in the photo above. I've known her brother, also an AC boy for like practically my whole life in ACS. While Zhennan is like elite army material, her brother, Tim, just got downgraded in The Guards. Funny how come so many AC people I know are getting downgraded for all kinds of reasons or other.
The best thing is that my dad bumped into Tim and Nic's dad! How much of a coincidence! One thing that I have to really thank God for the Misir family is that they are like the first family to actually bring me to a church camp as well as putting me in CF. I remember when I was a primary 2 schoolboy, Tim's dad would pay for a taxi to send Tim and I to ACS for Christian Fellowship. That was more than 11 years ago back in the Coleman street campus. If not for them, I could safely say that I would have neglected God all through my younger years.
Not only that, 11 years ago, Tim's dad was one of the few people around with a computer to boot. I used to go over to Tim's house just a very very very short distance away to play with DOS commands on his dad's computer. Wonderful family, thank God for them.
Mum sent the cat to be sterilized today. Only at the clinic, we found out that the cat was not a SHE, but a HE and that it had been sterilized before! Wow! A day of surprises. Now my cat's half sedated and wandering around the house in a blur state of confusion. I found the whole thing hilariously funny. A cat which we think is a SHE turns out to be a HE.
I remember once back in ACJC, when Matt and I were having serious bible study on the Book of Daniel at the concourse during recess. Of course, after which I went back to LT 5 to crack jokes during the F Maths lecture. Matt told me that there has been more earthquakes in the world in the last 100 years than the whole period of time before thence. I'm not so sure how true it is, but one thing is for sure. I feel that natural disasters are seemingly becoming more and more common.
The Straits Times a few days ago reported nothing but a fatal gas leak, landslides, earthquakes, war, terrorism, SARS, financial gloom, unemployment, depression, Steve Chia and his nonsense and all kinds of depressing news. Perhaps I ought to just stick to the Life section of the paper which is so much more cheerful in relation to its other relative sections. Somehow, I feel that slowly that Matthew 24 is coming true before my very eyes. Not that I wish to speculate or anything, but it just feels that way. Like Shingles said to me, "open the papers, see what? nothing but f___ed up news!". I have to agree, honestly. Depressing period of time indeed.
The New Paper isn't faring any better. Its just a trashy tabloid that people buy only to read the last 6 pages of.
Sometimes I just wonder why people like to harp on doom gloom death and sadness. There is so much more happiness and joy around us that we humans seemingly chose to ignore. A dose of outdoor adventure always seems to distract me from the cares and concerns of his world and set my feet back on the ground and root me to "reality" that is of nature and simplicity as opposed to darkness and complexities.
"I'd chose the planetary sciences over the earth sciences anytime". I seem to find solace as well as peace by looking at the creations of the Lord evident in nature everywhere.
I've completed a reading of my second book, Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. Its a very good book, although dizzingly confusing at times. Both fact and fiction woven together with many double or even triple meanings in the text that seem to convey a huge myriad of thoughts to me. I like the clash between the the people, politics, science and religion and conspiracies. The twist at the end of the story is what makes it so enjoyable. Respect. I recommend a reading of it, although it might get a bit dry at times.
I think I screwed up my university applications. Although I can always apply next year, I feel that its just a complete waste of time and money. Sigh. Perhaps I ought to just remain in Singapore after all. I really wish to go overseas. Everyone seems to be going to the Top US universities: Ann Arbor, Berkeley, MIT, Harvard, Emory, Williams, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Duke, Carnegie-Mellon, Cambridge, Oxford, Cornell, Columbia, NYU, Boston U, Wash U, WUSTL, UCLA. Its crazy, I feel so small academically half my existence knowing that that all my life, I've been more or less brought up to pursue academics first. Nevermind, I'll just trust in the Lord even though the future seems to uncertain at times. Truly, when I am faithless or even unfaithful, God has always been faithful to me.
Feeling much better today, although I'm still more or less feeling sick. I'm contemplating whether or not to take MC tomorrow. I'm mulling on it because I get a few days off, the new year to myself. But yet again, I don't want to be seen as a slacker or a weakling taking MC for small things like this. I'll see how it goes tomorrow, whether I'm feeling better. But whatever it is, I'll miss out on a dinner today organised by one of the guys in church for all the guys in my church ministry. Another opportunity to meet and bond with other people wasted. Sigh. But nevermind, sometimes, I guess that certain things are just simply not meant to me.
I want the Nikon D2H! Or maybe the EOS 10D! Thanks Steph for referring me back to that site. Surfed through it before, but I never really took full value of what it offers until now.
And thanks for mei and Joline for your comments. I always appreciate them.
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