Fantabulous weekend

Hmm, let's start with Friday! I met most of the cell people to eat at Vintage Delicafe, located near Arab Street. I chose grilled fish and it was goooooooood. Don't order their mix platter or drumlets. It's way too fried! We were there to celebrate Gab's birthday. It was fun.

The highlight's saturday, of course. Why? It was Abi's surprise birthday party! Firstly, we started planning in early Jan, together with a couple of friends from SMU and church. (Me, Meryl, Jeremy, Jonavan, Joshua and Amanda) We even had very nice post cards as invitations! Since the party was at her house, we had to plan how to get her out and bring her back without seeming suspicious. So after an L4D2 session with Jon, Joel and Abi, we persuaded her to let us come her house to play Wii. Oh My Gosh, she was so unconvinced. As if it would kill her to let us play wii. [She was very suspicious also because Evan told her the day before that she'll be meeting her the next day!!]

In any case, we managed to bring her home and SURPRISE!! And yes, according to what Jan said, she had this 'oh my gosh x3' face. And when she opened the door to the living room, there the choir friends from SMU who came sang her a 4-part birthday song harmony. SHIOK leh!

Was it a lot of hard work to plan? Well, not exactly. But it was mentally tiring to keep a secret and wondering how successful it would be. And thank God the person we're surprising is ABI, who is blur enough to miss all the small details.

Continuing with the fab weekend, we went to Abi's house (again) on Sunday to play Wii. It was fun fun fun fun fun.

But like all SMU students, I felt this tremendous amount of guilt on Sunday night for not doing work at all. Even if there weren't work to do, I felt uncomfortable not doing work stuff. At the same time while I experienced this emotional upheaval, God brought to mind what Ps Chia said in the morning, we can bring our requests to God, knowing that He WILL listen to our prayers. So for the first time in a long while, I kinda really took my time to pray and think about what's important in my life. I also remembered that I had just pledged a huge amount of money for the church's building fund, and what it meant when I did that. I thought of all the adjustments I had to make, financially, in my life. No more movies once a week, no more better-than-kopitiam food, no more just-buy-lah attitude. And definitely no cheating by mis-using my supplementary credit card.

Pastor Naomi Dowdy words really spoke to me when she said over the pulpit, 'No release, no increase (from God)'.

Ok that's it for now, need to do work and won't be blogging for a week unless some earth-shattering thing happen in my life. :)

Hitler Responds to iPad. WAHAHA.

La Muerte Del Angel

This is the hardest song I've sung in a choir. How does this choir do it??? They sing in one voice and when the high sops hit the high notes, it's so round. Have been trying, at the house piano, to smoothly hit those high notes with very little success. Gosh, I sound strained. Even though I've sung the crazy sop solo line in Chua Ay before, it's harder in Muerte.

I'm envious of them!

Oulook in life

My Newest Profile pic in Facebook

It's been a week since the musical. The one activity that took up all of my time in Dec and most of January is gone. Naturally most people felt the post production blues. And I lost my excuse to siam work. Personally, it's the inertia to do work now. It's gonna be week 5 (remember my week 5 post last term?) so the race is getting steamy.

Recently a married couple in my church adopted a little baby boy from Malaysia. Having read a little about adoption in Radical Womanhood, I'm really happy to see this small family blessed with a new addition. There are few things that bring greater pleasure to God's heart when he sees a godly couple take an otherwise orphaned child and raise him up in a loving family. And therefore, I will always have respect for families who are brave enough to start a family through adoption (especially for those who cannot have children biologically). Rather than enjoying life with a bigger income, they rather experience the ups and downs, blessings and pain that come with starting a family. Well, I'm not even 21 yet, don't really think I can say for sure what I want. I'm intellectually and culturally influenced by many things in Singapore. But as I'm growing up and searching for my anchor points and what really is important, I'm beginning to see God's word differently. And how differently the Bible talks from the world. And as the pastors begin to challenge us from the pulpit each week, you cannot ignore God's call upon your life anymore. It's a yes or no.

So God, give me strength and grace to walk with You each and everyday.

It's Complicated

Meryl Streep once again pulls off a great performance in It's Complicated. Now that I finally have time to myself, Josh and I watched It's Complicated. Screening at a very early time at 11am, there were only 6 of us in the cinema.

It's Complicated (NC16) is about Jane, being in her 50s, having an affair with her ex-husband after 10 years of divorce. Her husband, Jake, is remarried. To make things worse, Jane is being courted by ultra-decent Adam who is her home architect.

While her affairs are rather immoral, I love the sweetness of her family. I love Meryl Streep's character. Or maybe I just like Meryl Streep. :D

Just So Stories.

My awesome partner in crime: Giraffe (Serene)
That's me in my mohawk doing my single ladies move.
Zebra, Giraffe and wildebeeste.
Zebra is being convinced by Giraffe to make the MOVE today.

Missed it? Here's some photos. Obviously, these photos are nowhere near representative of what it's about. You can see more photos on my facebook page or my friends'.

It's been an awesome journey. I reached my own 'Limpopo River'. Doing a musical is so addictive, don't know if I can say no to another opportunity should there be another one next year.

Bump in!

The heat is on. It'll be bump-in rehearsals at Victoria Theatre from tomorrow onwards until the performance days on Friday and Saturday. Every since rehearsals started in December (we had 6 vocal sessions even before that), it's been a JOURNEY! I can't sing or act very well, just so-so. So, the musical really gives me chance to taste what it is like to be a thespian. A very pale taste though. True thespians need to be nothing less than best so that people will watch them. For us, it's just for fun. Don't cover costs also never mind.

After the musical, I really have to turn my attention back to ministry work. The time away from ministry has been awesome, but I miss some things. With my non-cell friends in church, it's been quite alienating. Probably cos some things have changed. For cell friends, I must say a big thank you for always encouraging me. Especially grateful that many of you are coming to watch the musical!

Chiong ah!!!