Police find Huang Na's body
SINGAPORE - Police have found the body of 8-year-old Huang Na at Telok Blangah Hill Park.
Huang Na had been missing for three weeks.

Huang Na, a girl from China, had been missing for about three weeks and had been the subject of a massive search that stretched from Singapore to Malaysia.
A 22-year-old Penang man, Mr Took Leng How, has surrendered to Penang police and was brought back to Singapore last night. He was the last person seen talking to Huang Na before she disappeared on Oct 10 from the Pasir Panjang Wholesale Centre. Mr Took was a former colleague of Huang Na's mother at the Pasir Panjang Wholesale Centre and he had lived with both mother and daughter in the same flat previously. He is helping police with investigations.

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Men what are this people after? She's just a kid. Why must she die at such a young age in a foreign land?

Makeover in nearby Chinatown Food Centre


THIRTY-SIX years after it was built, the People's Park hawker centre, known for its yong tau foo, pig's organ soup and fried dumplings, will get a much-needed makeover.

Goodbye, Old Gates & Tiles
New refurbished toilets will replace these old ones located at the first floor of People's Park Centre. Work, to begin in March 2005, will take about a year to complete.

[adapted from Straits Times Interactive]

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Men i'll miss the good food but hey, by march i should be off to Army. So no worries for me =P. Hope they set up newer stores there when i am back 2 years later .. with my botak head of coruse.

It's blogging time .. and yes i know i should be spending my time digging my books and going thru' TYS but hey, there is something really special today that i really wanna share. A feeling i have again since Emerge Conference. If you happen to read my blog, I should say that you got to read this. Not to just know my life, but know about some-things in life. Things that reputation, money and even plain proclamation of your faith can't buy.

Well like me start of by saying how my day went. Well yesterday night i got a hang-over. Dunno why but my whole week became very depressing. Especially after my Chemistry practical which was ... like what my previous post described. Totally urgh and puack. Life goes on. But my heart and mind just can't move on. Depression is famously described by my Church leaders as a black-hole equivalent; as a never ending dark tunnel that you just unknowningly[most of the time] fall in and get stuck in. It's like being deep beneathe in a swimming pool which u cant seem to surface. It's suffocating. I felt just like that. The previous week was even worst. I got so depressed that i nearly thought i was back-sliding, that my life was coming to an end. It's no joke. My faith and of course my friends play a big part in helping me pull through. Being depressed, naturally you can't study. You can't think. You mind is just encaged. Today i felt much better. Especially after service. Hmm so i shall share the happening in my service b4 i share the important thoughts and reflections that hit me after service and on my way home.

Today is my duty in my church service. That is i have to put on my usher-tag, give everyone a big smile, and carry out the instructions that my I/C has directed or place me in. As you know, my church is big and we need properly direct the crowd and people to empty seats. This is done through careful instructions and hand signals. There is when my role come in. This is my first time taking the role as "Acupoint". Basically i am supposed to know which part of the auditorium have empty seats and to pass the info around to the door ushers. I am situated at the top of the long stairs with my partner below. She will use hand signal to tell me how many seats there are in each zone and feed back to me. So it just remind me and give me the impression that i am in ... you know those stock market ... where they use hand signal to bring accurate clear message across. Pretty fun. My opinion of this job : Its quite fun and easy to do. Compared with being in-charge of a zone, well this role as an acupoint is much more relaxing and easy to do =D. I learnt quite alot from the people around me, though i think one of the sisters is not very please with my performance. Anyway, i am generally happy with my performance. I don't think i screw up anything through out my whole ushering session.

This part is very good. Pastor Kong spoke about something that has been bothering me in my past few days and weeks. The style of worship. I just can't feel God as tangibly as i want to when i worship. The pastor spoke abit about this agenda. I shall share abit of his sermon which really impact my life. Why .. err share later la. hahah dun frown, this is gonna be a long post.

Worship
I have ask my cell group leader, aka my mom, Karista about my style of worship. When i worship, i visualise on what the words meant and how i can see myself doing what i say. That's how i worship. But i have been ignorant about the fact that alot of times, i've drifted my attention away from God. Just like what Pastor Derek said, it's funny that your mind can be empty at times but when you start praying or worshipping, suddenly your mind will be clouded with lots of stuff. Here are the points raised by the pastor:

1) Worship is waiting upon the Lord.
- We have to wait for the Lord, 'cos God works on his own timing.
- When we learn to wait, we'll be able to slowly feel his presence

2) Worship is undistracted Focus on God
- We have to learn to put aside the things that are around us, and solely focus on him
- For when our heart and mind is, there our spirit is also.

3) Worship is extravagant adoration of God
- We can learn to postrate, kneel infront of Lord
- To postrate is to go to the lowest level we can go, when worshipping God.

4) Worship is unconditional sacrifice for God
- I'ts going to cost our time, money, pocessions and ultimately our lives
- We have to learn to give up our lives to him, to let him mould us to what he wants us to be.

This is a poweful message. After the message, we started worshipping God as a congregation. I can tell you, men i got this feeling. The warmth i never felt for years since i have accepted Christ as my personal Lord and saviour. I feel God's blanket of warmth encovering me, entwining me. Non-Christians may call it wishful thinking. But let me challenge all my friends who think this way. Come to my church to experience the feeling for yourself. For such things are unique and may be different for everyone. ..... I was really trembling and shaking when i am just beside the stage. I can really feel the power, the tangible presence that make my feets weak. I can't explain this feeling. I mean, hey if i start to shake and tremble in the middle of Orchard Road, you gotta start worrying about me. But hey no ... this is not that. Not what Science can explain as an alike form of Parkinson's Disease. It is a real confirmation that God is there. God moved right infront of me. That is no way i can deny it. To deny is to be ignorant. I can't follow the Scientific requirements of explaining this feeling through methodology, systematic explanation, or experimental deductions through and of this phenomenon. It's simply a level or key that doesn't fit into the lock that Science requires. To non-christians out there .. seeing is believing. Its only when you are willing to give yourself this chance to see what i see, to feel what i feel. Then you'll know something is different. And what i said is true.

The real important part of all this message is my reflections.
I have discovered a new me. A different me that is so different from my old me. To tell you the truth, coming to City Harvest Church should be about knowing God. But it's not just that and it doesn't end there. Coming to Church and empowered me with new skills.

-I've learned important relational skills [not just the usual friend to friend chat], but the importance and way of effective communication [thru the relationship seminal].
-I've learned not to take for granted in all things.
-I've learned about Goal Setting.
-I've learned about releasing and maximising my potential in me.
-I've learned ways of effective living [ though i must admit that i've not been applying very well to my life ].
-I've learned to see through your own problems to solve your problems.
-I've learned to open up more.
-I've learned to be tolerant at times when my friends can rub me in the wrong wa
-I've learned to be appreciative over little things in life.
-I've learned the importance of handling money.
-I've learned serving skills which might be useful in my working life.
-I've learned to put my trust in the right place
-I've learned about habits of effective thinking and thinking for a change.
-I've learned to be more of a listener than a talker
-I've learned anout punctuality.
-I've learned to make the best out of every little thing
-I've learned about building self-esteem

How about spirirtually?
-I've learned to speak in tongues more
-I've learned about Faith. Forsaking All I Trust Him
-I've learned about God's amazing Grace.
-I've learned about stewardship
-I've learned about trusting God not for all things but in all things
-I've learned about tithing
-I've learned to be a soul-winner
-I've learned about Patience and Perserverance
-I've learned cool and important bible verses [God's Promises]
-I've learned about prayer
-I've learned about Praise and Worship
-I've learned about God's visions vs. My visions
-I've learned about respect
-I've learned about the peace of God
-I've learned about our healer God, our provider God
-I've learned about having an intimate relationship with God
-I've learned more about the attitudes of the unchurched.
-I've learned about Trials, Tribulations and testings.
-I've learned about faithfulness, truthfulness and faith
-I've learned about the manner of walking with God
-I've learned about visualising and rehearsing your miracle
-I've learned about the attitudes of the heroes of our Faith
-I've learned about Jeruselum and Antioch Church
-I've learned about sacrifice. [like sacrificial faith pledges]
-I've learned to build my own altar for God

This are the things i can remember of. The things i've learned in this 17 months. What can i say. My life has changed. I don't thing i've learned anything bad in this 17 months. I've not pick up any bad habit. Only good ones to add to the list of my not so good ones. Looking back at this. I was like wow. What a change. I used to be sooo quiet and i don't dare to even look at girls. I used to be worked up very easily. Though i still am now, but i know that i am changing. I am becoming a different person! And i find this journey exciting. Astonishing. Amazing. Crazy. Fun. Sad. Crazy. And i dunno what else to say. It's sad that in life, many people do not give chance to certain things. And they give a chance to all the wrong things in all, drugs, terrorist acts. A world that we live today is torn and broken with so many "new age cultures" which sometimes we as ordinary people can't differentiate the good from the bad. And the best part of coming to this church is ... i make new friends. I've friend who always talk to me that he has no true friends. I've also another friend who say that alot of people in this world are hypocrites. I've friends who backstabbed me. I came to City harvest, and i discovered a whole new environment. Maybe you might say you jsut found a new clique or social activity partners. I can only say, don't be so shallow minded. Its really a totally different environment here. Alot of care, share and of course a fervant attitude to seek God. The environment we live in often changes who we are and everything that comes with it. Don't ask me why. This is part of Biology. Go read O/A level bio textbook. Chapter 11 - Evolution [ps: the chapter is fake. Go find the chapter yourself.]

I've met people who have only met me for 12 months and are willing to fork out hundred over dollars just for me to buy formal clothings for my usher. I've met people who constantly encourage me.Directly or Indirectly. Know when my birthday is and reserve a special weekend to celeb for me. I've met this group of people who are willing to listen to my pains. Over and over again! I've met people who are willing to lend their ties, shoes , belts and even fork out money for my personal expenses. I've known of this people, who fork out their time to visit my dying grandpa lying in the hospital bed. I can go on .... forever. The fact is that there is no such clearly- cool place on Earth that i've found that has blessed me so much. Look, it's not about how much i receive from this people that counts. It's the heart. The thought. The very meaning of doing this for someone u barely know for a few months , days and to a extent ... a year. I am quite sentimental. And i can say that I love you dudes and dudees. Most of all, I loved God. I love the special place he has place me into. This is not just a time of reflection. It's a time of appreciation of what you guys have done for me. I meant it straight from my heart. Thank you. Whatever you are, whatever you do. God bless you.

I'm still sad. So i ask myself why did the chicken cross the road. Look what they replied ..

Homer Simpson 's Answer:
There was free beer on the other side of the road.

Jessica Simpson 's Answer:
Why would he be one a road, I thought chickens lived in the ocean?

Bill Cosby 's Answer:
Weeelll, ya see, the chicken crossed the road, and to get... to...the jello pudding pops.

Isaac Newton 's Answer:
The duck suggested to the chicken that they play follow the leader then the duck crossed the road causing the chicken to cross after it, but at the same time holding up traffic, thus proving that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction .

Shakespeare 's Answer:
To cross or not to cross, that is the question.

Muhammad Gandhi 's Answer:
All chickens should peacefully resist by crossing the road.

Steve Jobs 's (Apple) Answer:
Because of the brand-new iChicken- a portable device that crosses roads, lays eggs, gives wake up calls and provides dinner, automatically. This amazing device can simply plug in to the $4000 iCoop to produce additional iChickens and recharge existing iChickens, or plug it into the $9000 iChop to convert iChicken files into iFood ..... (lots more crap) ...

Colin Powell 's Answer:
This is not about whether inspectors made sure the chicken crossed the road, it's about the willingness of the chicken to cross the road voluntarily.

Darwin's Answer:
Chickens, over great periods of time, have been naturally selected in such a way that they are
now genetically disposed to cross roads.

Moses's Answer:
And God came down from the Heavens, and He said unto the chicken, "Thou shalt cross the road." And the chicken crossed the road, and there was much rejoicing.

Neil Armstrong's Answer:
That's one small step for Chicken, one giant leap for Chicken kind.

Bill Gates' Answer:
I have just released eChicken 2003, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook - and Internet Explorer is an inextricable part of eChicken.

Aristotle's Answer:
It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

Karl Marx's Answer:
It was a historical inevitability.

Albert Einstein's Answer:
Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference. "The principle of Relative-vity."

Immanuel Kant's Answer:
The chicken was acting out of a sense of duty to cross the road, aschickens have traditionally crossed roads throughout history

Colonel Sanders' [KFC] Answer:
I missed one?


I got a feeling i shouldn't have ask.

Horrificadiciousisation

A simple word say its all. A simple word to describe a practical that i have take 6 hours ago. A simple word to express the anguish and urgh.. after 2 1/2 hours of pouring chemicals after chemicals and getting my hand all itchy when the chemicals happily erode my hand. Most of all i nearly finished my paper. So i'll lose some marks on the questions that i din do. On top of that, i tink someone fed me alcohol when i am asleep. I hallucinated at some part, and that hallucinated thought cos me ans the !@#!@#!@# 1st question totally wrongly. Marks just flew. Disappointment. I am really really disappointed.

I cant solve this. Arghhhh. ok i got to go and study.... I WILL SOLVE THIS THE NEXT TIME !!!!!!!@@@#$$#

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-
IC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.

Most people count 3 F's. Did you?

I've found an extremely interesting site. I've solved the mystery of this site. Well try solving. It's quite entertaining =P

Cave of Magic

Sunday Times

Below are extracts from our local newspaper. Kinda cool so gonna post here.

This is an extremely cool gadget. I'ts Call Egg Mashey. The cool metalic legs of this gadget is used to smah your beautiful boiled egg to erm ... your desired pancake shaped eggs. At least it's more hygenic than using your own feat ...

Absoulutely cool table. Who says we can't have fun in a dining table. I hope to get this in my new house in the future =D

Do you believe?

Yeaaaa ... i found my bible again. Yippee. Don't have to use my uncle's bible. =D and good news to All City Harvest members who lsoe their things regularly : they've finally packed the lost and found cupboard and so it is much easier to find you lost items. I nearly lose another thing in church today again. When will i start losing things :( ?

It is true that every man has his price on Earth. Dunno what i am talking about? Good. Cos i am not sure too. Viva da Deska. The great battle of all history [in Jason's History Textbk] is coming. Tomorrow our great hero Jason will face his Alpha, his First Great battle of this time. There is no escaping. The prophesy will be fulfilled. Let's wish him all the best. Gampade Jason.

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith
2Timothy 4:7
New King James Version.

"We must begin with the end in mind, for then, we will succeed. "
-Me-

Well this might might be the last time i post for this 2 months ... A levels is coming and my 1st practical paper starts just next week. Goodness.

I just wanna say how God never fails to amaze me. Many a times he seems to be a distant God. But he sure knowss what i am thinking and provides solution to me in a time when you least expected to hear from Him. Yesterday's Cell group was great and i received alot of Rhema[word from God] word through the whole meeting. I was very compelled to Visualise and to Speak out my visions just like God did in Genesis. He spoke out this world which we are living in. Amazing isn't it? The message is simple. Desiring something calls for action. To bring our desires into the supernatural, we have to visualise that we've already acquire or complete what we want or desire. Secondly, we have to confess and rehearse that desire. Lastly we have to remember Faith is done by our works. As the saying goes Faith without work is dead. Action is required to initiate the path of success. When we start to act, God will start to direct and so our actions will always lead us somewhere.

Yea and this one is very important. I prayed about it and God answerd it

How 2 break the cycle of defeat:
1)Change the way you see yourself
2)Change the words you say to yourself.
Hence be good to yourself. =D

Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

-- Hebrews 6:1
New King James Version

I lost my bible again. I don't know whether i lost it at home or at Church. Damnations.

Haloscan commenting and trackback have been added to this blog.

-GraduationY
.............. Pictures of the day

Graduation pictures. Gee i really don't look good in photos. Really terrible. Guess the camera doesn't like me. haaa anyway like i said earlier, this are the photos of Graduation. There are more but aint sure when my friends are gonna upload.Too bad we cant get all our teachers together to take a nice nice one. The photos are all below.

Dala~ The full picture of 03S53. Men are we cool or hot?

Notice the backdrop? Got nice food for us waiting there.

cheeze.

Gee. So many human flowers in the 2nd row.

S53 'R' Us

Tat's our class. Tat's us with Miss Cher

We love Flowers. Thx to Elane =)

Eh hum.. Presenting the Hunks of 03s53

Our favourite pose. Don't ask why.

-GraduationY
we will still be .. Friends Forever

This is it. Graduation. The day the school says "bye bye" to us. The day we all shared moments of our past adventures and precious memories. The day which we reflect what we have accomplish, what we have been through and the little happenings in college life.

The day began with Chapel [ our ususal friday routine - where we sit together; sing hymns ; listen to the message by the pastor ]. Our very last chapel. Normally i do not put lyrics here cos i have a lyrics site in my blog but for this time ... tink its better and more meaningful to type the lyrics here. I shall type 2 songs first :

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College hymn

Our Father by who servants
Our School was built of old
Whose hand hath crowned Thy children
with blessings manifold
For Thy unfailing mercies
Far strewn along our way
With all who passed before us
We praise Thy name today

They reaped not where they laboured
We reap what they hath sown
Our harvest may be garnered
By ages yet unknown
The days of old hath dowered us
With gifts beyong all praise
Our Father make us faithful
To serve the coming days

Before us and beside us
Still holden by Thy hand
A cloud of unseen witness
Our elder comrades stand
One family unbrokem
we Join with one acclaim
One heart, one voice uplifting
To glorify Thy name

That's our college hymn. Though this song might be old, it is quite a nice song. If yoy aint from SAJC, and when i am in a super good singing mood, you might be able to catch the chance to let me sing to ya. haha. I shall put in our College school song before i continue blogging

The School Song

Lives are in the making here,Hearts are in the waking here,Mighty undertaking here,Up and On! Up and On!
We are arming for the fight,Pressing on with all our might,Pluming wings for higher flight,Up and On!

Chorus
Up Saints! Truest fameLies in high endeavour;Play the game! keep the flameBurning brightly ever!

Fair before us lies the way,Time for work and time for play;Fill the measure while we may,Up and On! Up and On!
Life and time will not delay,Time is running fast away,Life is now today; today;Up and On!
Chorus

Foes in plenty we shall meet,Hearts courageous scorn defeat;So we press with eager feet,Up and On! Up and On!
Ever onward to the fight,Ever upward to the Light,Ever true to GOD and RIGHT,Up and On!
Chorus

Anyway, this song can be integrated in to sponge bob square pants programmes cos we have a teacher in SA who can sing this song exactly like Mr spongebob. Ya then more kids will wanna come SA to learn this cool song. Wahhaha.

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Back to the Blog.

We had a short message by the pastor on the significance of life. He showed us a slogan saying "I am you." and " I am your happily ever after " slogans from a car advertisement. He showed us that cars don't last and the picture from the slide he showed to us as an example is Princess Diana's wrecked car. The messag was simple. That worldly matters will die out. God however is eternal. Our life everlasting all comes from him. That we are created as an image of him. He treasure us and will hear upon any of our cry, whether you are a christian or non-christian.

Later came the photogenic slide presentation and video presentation of the happenings of 2003/2004. The sports, the fun school pragrammes ranging from Orientation [Saintezia], Discovery Fiesta[2003] to Service learning [2004]. We have a few laughs over the presentation ... of what happen. Cannon In D was the background music for the photogenic sldie presentation. Kinda nice and sweet.

After that we sang college hymn and all of us sat down again to listen to the speech by the principal, arts dept repst. Mr Yoong, Sci dept respt. Mr Roland Lee and finally the President of student Council Whye Kiat. The speeches are qutie meaningful. Won't elaborate too much about it. Mrs Lim[our principal] spur us to be creative and utilize our brain fully in whatever we do in the future. Mr Yoong said something about that we would treasure relationships andwe should by all means do that. I cant really remember what he said also :P. Mr roland Lee told us to treat A Levels like a battlefield and bring our Saints Spirit over to overcome this challenge. Whye kiat reminded us of the 2 grouchy drink stall aunties who have left [haha - this part is funny] and also leave us with the cliche of studying hard and wishes for all the best.

Then ahhh this song is very nice. The teachers sang You raise me Up by Josh Groban, though i prefer Josh Groban's version of singing. And I must say Miss Ang [my 1st 3 months GP teacher], can sing very well. She's not very good at high notes but still she has a great voice.
Lastly, we sang the hymn Lord Dismiss Us With Thy Blessing. [which is a nice hymn too :) ]

The end message of this chapter in SAJC ?

Once a Saint, Always a Saint .

We had yum yum food later too =D. Men got very nice baby chicken drumbsticks and cheesecake. YUMZ. They are the hot stuffs there and were out very fast. Haa actually the drumsticks are not for us and are meant for the students. But in the end haha we got our hands on it :P buahahhaha. =D

Then its click click time. Everyone flash their digi cams and optic cams and we began clicking like never before again. I will upload the pictures later when my friends send me the picts. Well jsut wanna say i feel kinda sad that things are going to end and soon we will be back into the battlefield, battling for A's in our A Level. Will we forget each other , I wonder. Will days, months and years go by when we soon lose contact with our buddies, mates and cliques ? Truly SAJC is a nice JC with its unique studying environment of its own. I would say we have a "slack culture" before in our batch but this change quickly when we are in JC2. Life does not end here. Every end is a beginning of something new. But i just hate endings. May it be in movies or real life. I hate partings and such stuffs. Am i resisting changes or just a regular conservative? I am not sure. Just know and pray that i have to and will conquer A levels with this short time left.

Quote by Miss Cher : After your A's, you will think "after all its only an exam." What truly matters most is that you bring you values, morals .. with you. If you don't stand up for anything, you will fall for everything.

Btw she's our pretty and cool GP teacher. =)
Mrs Wong Ching Hwa also had a great quote. Something about Heart Matters. If anyone reading knows this quote pls tell me.

and yup i forgot to mention this. One of my classmate Elane did a very nice thing. She bought many yellow and daisies and distributed them to us. Yea maybe i shall start calling her flower girl but men the flowers are real nice. I planted the flower in this big 1 litre green tea bottle in my kitchen. It looks like very much like a sunflower to me. Thx for the flowers Elane .. if you ever get to read this :)

The end ?

Gee it's pretty quiet in here. Guess i shouldn't be spending much time in here either. I am real happy , cos i got nice friends who celebrated my birthday this week. Juz wanna say thx for the cakes and surprises =O ... Well i always appreciate effort.. even if u know sometimes people can get blur and message me accidentally to tell me they are gonna celeb bday for me.... haa. Very funny. I pretended to be blur so as not to spoil the fun and everything went on quite well. Thx for the sms-es, greetings, presents n' cakes. Truly i am very grateful.

Well got alot of things i wanna blog but have to restrict myself till after A's. I am feeling kinda down now cos i feel helpless and as if there is something constantly pulling me down. :X Teddy bear[Terri-ble]. And lately, one of my friend msg me a very funny message. Says he is leaving and might not be coming back 4eva. I got kinda shock and abit worried since he always complains of his life problems. Well, i dunno. Just gonna pray 4 the best and let God handle the rest. Sighz.

Today is a special Day.

On This Day: Friday, October 8, 2004

This is the 282nd day of the year, with 84 days remaining in 2004.
Holidays:
Feast day of St Simeon Senex, St Pelagia (or Margaret) the Penitent, St Demetrius, St Keyne, St Thaïs, St Marcellus, and St Reparata of Caesarea.
Peru: Day of the Navy.
Nepal: Gai Jatra.

Events
1085 - St Mark's Cathedral in Venice was consecrated.
1840 - King William I of Holland abdicates.
1862 - Union and Confederate forces fought at Perryville, Kentucky in a one-day battle that stopped the South's attempt to bring that border state into the Confederacy.
1871 - The Great Chicago Fire started after a cow reportedly kicks over a lantern in the barn of Mrs. O'Leary. Within hours, the strong winds engulfed the center of the city in flames and within three hours jumps the Chicago River. Damage was estimated at $200 million, 90,000 Chicagoans were made homeless, and at least 300 people died.
1871 - One of the most disastrous forest fires in history began at Peshtigo, Wisdon, burning six counties and killing more than 1100 people.
1906 - Karl Ludwig Nessler of London demonstrates the first machine to put permenant waves in hair. It is a six-hour process.
1912 - The First Balkan War (against Turkey) began -- from which World War I arose.
1915 - The Battle of Loos, in World War I, ended.
1919 - The first transcontinental air race in the US begins, with 63 planes competing in the round-trip aerial derby between California and New York. Lieutenant Belvin W. Maynard, flying a Havilland-4 with a Liberty motor, wins the 5,400-mile race across the continent and back.
1934 - Bruno Hauptmann was indicted for murder in the death of the infant son of Charles A. Lindbergh.
1938 - Norman Rockwell published his famous self-portrait in the Saturday Evening Post.
1939 - Western Poland was incorporated in the Third Reich.
1945 - President Harry Truman announced that the secret of the atomic bomb would be shared only with Britain and Canada.
1956 - Don Larsen pitched the first (and only, to date) perfect game in the World Series as the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers, 2-0.
1970 - Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
1982 - All labor organizations in Poland, including Solidarity, were banned.
1989 - The Latvian Popular Front announced its intention to seek independence from the USSR.

Births
1810 - James Wilson Marshall, discoverer of gold in the American West.
1838 - John Milton Hay, diplomat and statesman, poet, and author.
1890 - Eddie Rickenbacker, figher pilot in World War I, aviation pioneer, and airlines executive.
1895 - Juan Peron, President of Argentina (1946-1955 and 1973-74).
1941 - Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader.

Deaths
1869 - Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the US (1853-1857).

Well today is a good day. So everyone must be happy today. It's a day, special in every way. =D
Tat's all folks. Good day ahead :)

i will not be blogging much now cos its just 20 days to my next paper. Sighz. Anyway got something funny to share.

Haa Do u tink durian have eyes? Well, b4 i went out to cut my hair this morning, i saw this funny chinese local variety show. Dunno what it is. It explores the topic on durians and on one part of the show, participants have to open try to open the fresh durian with the equipment given. Sounds easy? Might be. I dunno. They provide hammer and a stake ... hmmm looks like those equipment vampire hyunters used to hunt the bat-looking monsters. And a medium size knife. Haa there was one part a caucasian was asked to open the durian. haa .. then this little funny young boy tried to open the durain using a hammer by smashing it repeatedly. haha very funny.

Then come this part when the guest of the show was asked some question. If i am not wrong the qn asked was whether durians have eyes. Then most contestants replied no except for this little lady who said durians have eyes and if you plunge your knife accidentally to the eyes of the durian, the durain spirit will haunt you. O_o [apa ini?] haha. Well the very very funny part came when my grand ma suddenly said to me in a very serious tone. yea! Durians have eyes you know. That's why when there is people below the durian tree, it will not fall of the tree. Haa i cant take it at that point. She said it such a serious tone ... and i was like "Ah Ma!! WRONG CONCEPT!!" She used to tell me snakes have legs .... and the example she gave is the Komodo Dragon. And i keep telling her it belongs to the lizard family. Nothing to do with Snakes at all. She really amazes me some times. No matter how i tried to explain, she wun believe. Stubborness is in our family blood. I wonder if she also believe pigs can fly :P .. [ haa in case you think i am trying to make fun of her ... i am seriously not. Just find the arguments i had over this issues pretty funny]

Eventually the answer reviewed and DURIANS HAVE NO EYES. I became the triumphant winner and my granny [ahaha] just smiled and i am still unsure whether she is trying to joke with me or really really believe snakes have legs and durians have eyes.

Haa i am fascinated by the pictures below. Upload alotta pictures and just to say errr alittle abt this .. its very fun to upload pictures. haha i dunno y but it is very fun. Back to the subj.

Now i am gonna educate you guys about a exciting X-ray procedure i went thru' this morning.

Intravenous Urogram

This X-ray is totally different from all the X-rays i've done. I read about this X-ray examination online b4 i went for this procedure. More info @ :http://www.cgh.com.sg/health_public/pamphlet/x-ray/ivu_exam/ivu_exam.html. Let me take you through a magical journey h through this wonderful procedure.

Pre-Examination preparation:
Aw this is totally cool. First you have take this magical pill call Bisacodyltablets (a laxative pill). The purpose is to clear your bowels, intestines so that the X-ray machine can take wonderful snapshots of your urinary system. Did i mention this is a laxative pill? Participants have to take 2 pills 2 days b4 the screening and another 2 pills again the day before the actual screening. Participants will also enjoy a great bowel clensing moment in the toilet with occasional stomach upsets and pains during the course of defecation. Know what rocks for me the most? I have taken a total of 10 of this magical pills. Since i took 2 pills each time, i enjoyed 5 sessions of toilet bombing in all. How come i end up taking 10 when i only have to take 4? Due to my blurness and ignorance. 1st time was b'cos i am not covered by CMPB to do this examination. Hence the experiment on that day is voided and i have to retake another 4 pills.The next time was because i got the date mixed up. So i ended up taking only 2 pills instead of the 4. Hence i am given another 2 pills to enjoy. So .... tat's how i end up with 10 magical laxative pills.

The day of Examination:
I'm not allowed to eat anything from 8pm the night before all the way till after the screening. Talk about hunger. I need sufficient food. Or else my stomach will go "she bangs, she bangs .." haha not funny. B4 the examination i went toilet to pass motion again. Lots of watery juicy things pop out from my butt. I must say i cant stand the smell of the contents coming out. So .. i decided to dress up like the Afghanistan terrorist by wrapping tissue paper around my mouth and nose. Really. I spend quite a long time... and until i heard the nurse yelling my name outside then i thought i should end my toilet bombing session.

I got to dressed up liek a samurai warrior with the radioactive coat they provide. For once i might be Tom Cruise in the last Samurai. I went in the room and there i saw a bed. I thought they are gonna operate on me. I was told to lie on the bed and stay still. The doctors are all smiles and its like i am in a horror movie. Anyway, they told me to relax and there is this machines that they keep playing with. This machine is responsible of taking pictures of my urinary tracts or bowels. Each time just before i picture is taken, i was asked to hold my breathe and only let go a few secs after the picture is taken. So many pictures of my bowels are taken ... and i was wondering if i can bring back those pix as souvenirs. And ahhhh the moment came.

A smart looking doctor came and greeted me. He told me he was gonna inject me with a dye. Iodine complex to be exact.(refer to website) The style of injection is in the form of a drip. So as all bio students know, all the starch compounds flowing in my blood is gonna turn this iodine dark blue. Totally cool men. He told me a few thigns before the actual injection. First he mention abt the side-effects. This include feeling nauseouss, feeling hot, short of breathe, and in extreme cases : death. That time i got a shock. Death?? i asked the doctor what is this abt?? The doc replied only in very severe allergic body reaction woudl there be such a case. I was like OMG again. Am i send here to be executed? If there is a slight chance, there's still a chance. I told God pls don't take me home so early. Though i long to be home , there's still alot of things i wanna do on Earth b4 i go. In the end i felt a sharp prick on my hand. After a few seconds, i felt a sharp rush of heat across my neck to my brain. Cool , i thought.

After a few minutes, again pictures of my bowel were taken. The drip was still on. I was feeling kinda weak. Later, the assistant place 2 small hard weight on my stomach and fasten a large belt around my waist. He told me this is to facillitate the movement of the dye into my kidneys. O_o. I was like .. ok , bring it on. After a few minutes, pictures were again taken. BTW, i forgot to mention. Thsi procedure usually takes about 1 - 3/2 hrs. So gosh i just stare at the ceiling while i wonder if i would suddenly jump out and suddenly roll to the floor and die .. or i would start itching like mad [one of the possible side-effects].

Near the end, the drip was removed. The weight and the belts were removed. I was asked to sit up and told to drink water. So now they are introducing water into my bladder. After 10 mins or so, i was asked to lie flat again. This time the doctor asked me to turn to the side. He started shaking me... haha i cant help smirking when he started shaking me like i was some big giant baby bottle. After many shake-shakes, the doctor took a few more shots of my bowels. Finally, i was asked to change back to my own clothes and return the samurai costume. And that's all for this magical journey. Pretty cool X-ray exam huh? Never had such a kind of examination b4. Thank God i survie the journey.

OK tat's ALL ...

Our Class Photo (",)
- At least most of us are there...



From bottom left, Mr Ng [PE teacher], Miss Cher [Our GP tutor and CT], Miss Yeo [Maths tutor], Mr Ho [Physics Tutor]

Sentosa Pictures

I've posted some of the Sentosa picts. All below. =D

James is sailormoon. Joel looks alluring in water. I cant resist the urge to touch his leg. haa.

Looks like a pyramid in the water..

Finally all of us @ the sea.

There goes marc. Got thrown into the sea. No one is safe from this merciless gang

Where is the fish?

Back to the Good O' days @ playground

Yea that's all of us.

Picture perfect?

The Sentosa Gang

Twister 3 in the making ...

19th October

Date To take Note. b

~*~DADDY'S TEN~*~
~*~RULES OF~*~
~*~DATING~*

Rule One: If you pull into my driveway and honk you'd better be delivering a package, because you're sure not picking anything up.

Rule Two: You do not touch my daughter in front of me. You may glance at her, so long as you do not peer at anything below her neck. If you cannot keep your eyes or hands off of my daughter's body, I will remove them.

Rule Three: I am aware that it is considered fashionable for boys of your age to wear their trousers so loosely that they appear to be falling off their hips. Please don't take this as an insult, but you and all of your friends are complete idiots. Still, I want to be fair and open minded about this issue, so I propose this compromise: You may come to the door with your underwear showing and your pants ten sizes to big, and I will not object. However, in order to ensure that your clothes do not, in fact come off during the course of you date with my daughter, I will take my electric nail gun and fasten your trousers securely in place to your waist.

Rule Four: I'm sure you've been told that in today's world, sex without utilizing a "Barrier method" of some kind can kill you. Let me elaborate, when it comes to sex, I am the barrier, and I will kill you.

Rule Five: It is usually understood that in order for us to get to know each other, we should talk about sports, politics, and other issues of the day. Please do not do this. The only information I require from you is an indication of when you expect to have my daughter safely back at my house, and the only word I need from you on this subject is: "early"

Rule Six: I have no doubt you are a popular fellow, with many opportunities to date other girls. This is fine with me as long as it is okay with my daughter. Otherwise, once you have gone out with my little girl, you will continue to date no one but her until she is finished with you. If you make her cry, I will make you cry.

Rule Seven: As you stand in my front hallway, waiting for my daughter to appear, and more than an hour goes by, do not sigh and fidget. If you want to be on time for the movie, you should not be dating. My daughter is putting on her makeup, a process than can take longer than painting the Golden Gate Bridge. Instead of just standing there, why don't you do something useful, like changing the oil in my car?

Rule Eight: The following places are not appropriate for a date with my daughter: Places where there are beds, sofas, or anything softer than a wooden stool. Places where there is darkness. Places where there is dancing, holding hands, or happiness. Places where the ambient temperature is warm enough to introduce my daughter to wear shorts, tank tops, midriff T-shirts, or anything other than overalls, a sweater, and a goose down parka -- zipped up to her throat. Movies with a strong romantic or sexual theme are to be avoided; movies which features chain saws are okay. Hockey games are okay. Old folks homes are better.

Rule Nine: Do not lie to me. I may appear to be a potbellied, balding, middle-aged, imwitted has-been. But on issues relating to my daughter, I am the all-knowing, merciless God of your universe. If I ask you where you are going and with whom, you have one chance to tell me the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I have a shotgun, a shovel, and five acres behind the house. Do not trifle with me.

Rule Ten: Be afraid. Be very afraid. It takes very little for me to mistake the sound of your car in the driveway for a chopper coming in over a rice paddy near Hanoi. When my Agent Orange starts acting up, the voices in my head frequently tell me to clean the guns as I wait for you to bring my >daughter home. As soon as you pull into the driveways you should exit the car with both hands in plain sight. Speak the perimeter password, announce in a clear voice that you have brought my daughter home safely and early, then return to your car -- there is no need for you to come inside. The camouflaged face at the window is mine.

Scary huh?

I just saw this Ai dao you qing tien ... haa tink that is the name of the show. It's a charity show raising funds for cancer patients.Well i was ironing my clothes and watching the show. I din noe there is this pop group call K One and it seems that they are really a hit among Singapore fans. What strike me was the life stories of some of the patients in the show. I guess everyone would feel the same way as me. But really, there are young sufferers as young as 13 years old who suffered from cancer. Erm i am nto sure what cancer she is suffering from but it seems to affect her stomach. She has to go thru' chemotherapy which is a horrible treatment ... though necessary to keep the patient alive. She lost quite abit of her hair and men, she has along way to go. I really cant imagine what my life will be ahead if i am in her shoe. Gonna wait thru each day and hope for the better the next day. I got this sudden compulsion to share the gospel with her. Seeing what happen on last friday, i hoped she can experience God's love and be healed completely. Sighz.

Saturday

My day ? Nah Our day.

Today i went to erm ... damn i forgot the restauant's name. Shall call it XYZ restaurant in Raffles Town Club[RTC]. We are celebrating 3 birthdays today. My uncle- Thomas, my new-born cousin- Grace, and ... me :) Our birthdays are next week but they all fall b4 the weekend of nxt week. So we had the celebration today! I would say. it was kinda big celebration. Maybe not as big as Garrick and Garbiel's birthday. Butly = ly cool. y? Cos got yummy good food.

We have to arrive there early to book seats. No reservations of seats. So , some of us just have to be there early. I helped myself with some appetizers. Cakes, Salad, otah .. and some meat stuffs. I had about 3 dish of those and i went out to explre RTC. I think went to all the places they have in RTC. The arcade, the movie theatre, the Bowling alley, the billard room, the com room, the card room. the pub, the other restaurants, the Spa, the squash room, the stimulated golf course[ really lousy golf course. Really...], tennis courts, swimmign pool, gym, Music centre, err billard room, i think tat's abt all. Explorer Jason has discovered all this so far. Later i went back to have my 2nd helping. This time, all my relatives have came and i had a long-time-no-chat chat with them.I talked mostly about army stuffs, my pathetic prelims, and erm my medical report in tan tock seng hospital. LAter i went down with my cousin to play some game @ the arcade. It's my honour to annouce this great news. I completed Time Crisis 2 !!! hahahaha. Ok la i know its no big deal. Don't give me the now-then-you-complete-this-old-game look. I seldom go arcade and spend more time in lan shops this few years. So i am really lousy @ the games in the arcade now.

For finale, what do we have? What is a birthday celeb without bday cakes? And so it goes, the normal rituals of the birthday songs and photo taking took place. I got a chance to carry Grace, my little close to 1 year old baby cousin. She is real cool and have this sparkling eyes. her hair is qutie messy though. I had a great time eating chocolate cake and durian cake[2 cakes :) ]. The durain cake taste better .. to me. Teh Chocolate cake is too creamy. What a day. After all these, i went to take my 3rd serving. A very small dish of fruits and pastries. And that's it for the day. I had a real great time with my long-time-no-see cousins, & relatives. Got to tapao or takeaway a slice of durian cake too. Yum yumz. Its hibernating in the fridge as we speak. Erm i mean as i type. =D hahaha its gonna be mine tomorrow. Take no prisoners. buahahahhahahha.

Friday

I went for service today. Adult service. So its kinda or abit diff from the usual youth service i go. But nevertheless, i can still the energy in the crowd. Still pretty cool =D. I was serving that day as hall traffic and as Traffic Marshall [at the end of the service] I usually don;t like serving for adult service be'cos i do not have the required formal attire and i have to frantically ask all my friends to lend me the items. But now, i more or less have the complete set of formal attire *grins* thx again to mom and chua. They indirectly bless me an outfit for prom nite.

Service was special this week as we have a guest speaker from Sarawak - Dr Raymond Mooi. I am not sure if its me with the fact that i don't usually enjoy a service, hearing from a new speaker. Cos i feel kinda lost during his speeches but i do understand what he's preaching. I felt abit funny all the way through. He preach a simple message about Jesus at the wedding feast. And that having no wine or running otu of wine spells doom to a wedding. How Jesus initially said he has nothing to do with it and eventually, he turn water to fine wine to save the wedding. Very simple message. But many deep fundamental lessons to learn. Persistence to overcome resistance is one of the impt lessons the pastor has preached.

Well at the end, he did something special. He a sort of healing ceremony at the end of service. Those who need healing was asked to stand up and to lay their hands on the areas they want to be healed. Then he began to pray. I stood up and began to pray. I was praying for my Rheumatoid Arthritis which affects my hands and legs. Somehow at that point the joints on my hands are abit painful and i feel the resistance when i stretch my hand. As i prayed, i felt abit funny. Not sure what's that feeling. As the prayer ended, the pastor called those who experience healing to come forward to share their testimony. I was like .. !!!! ?? I stretch my hand. It still feels funny and abit painful. To my surprise, lots of people went up the stage. there was such a big crowd gathering aroudn the pastor at the stage waiting to testify of the healing. I felt abit embarass and abit sad that i did nto experience immediate healing. Maybe i did. I tell myself it takes time to experience the effect and that i might be unconsciously experiencing God's Stealth-version of healing powers. Anyway i watch in amazement in what the people testified. Sinuses are cured. Inborn genetically passed down -kinda sickness was gorn. Lung problems, back problems .. were all cured. Amen. I still feel sad. really.

Later he gave another altar call for the redemption of sinners .. or a salvation-kinda prayer. After that, the service ended. I did traffic marshall(TM) for about 40 mins b4 i rush off to catch my bus home. Still feeling very sad when i do my TM but soon enough God calm my heart. I feel quite relax soon after serving for about 15 mins. Guess the work might have distracted me from myself. And that is it.

Gee for the last 2 days, i was qutie lazy to blog. So i shall make up now =D

Thursday

Well i went for cell group on that day. Not with my own usual cell group members ... but with anothe cell group. And guess what greets me when i stepped into their house ? Spaghetti !! Yum yum. I love Jocelyn's Spaghetti/ pasta. Haa how lucky ... or should i say bless of me to be able to enjoy a meal of spag. for my first- time ever make-up Cell. Hmm .. there were about 9 of us there. So we squeeze into this cozy little room for our cell group.

It's a real good message we learnt on that day. Walking with the lord. I basically learnt that we must walk in 2 ways: By the written word of God [ Logos word ] and also by the Spoken word of God [ Rhema word ]. I learnt that not every voice we hear in our heart comes from God which is pretty true. We can hear 3 voices in general. Our own voice, like hey i tink that watch is pretty cool. Or, God's voice. And of course the Devil's voice. We have to rely on 2 things to ensure the thought we are thinking are from God - the scripture, and our spirit of discernment. We even had a quite cool activity in which we break up into 2 groups and compete in a bible verse game. It was quite interesting and cool. I even get to tapao or takeaway spaghetti. =D =D =D

"I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, " plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

--Jeremiah 29:11
New International Version