Reunion of the Unreunioned

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Wad a weeeeeeeeek! HA! I guess everyone has been waiting for this!! The arrival of another New Year that we Singaporeans celebrate!!






Atlas! Happy Chinese New Year!!!







hohoho.. 4 Days of break :D (2 day weekend, 2 day holiday) yeaaa!!








Earlier in the week, i've met up with turtle to bring her around Chinatown. That gurl got lost somewhere again and i have to track her down (via my handy mobile phone). -__-


I still remembered we went last year to Xenbar during our Chinatown tour-around. Well frankly speaking, there was more to see last year as compared to this year. Nevertheless, it's the fellowship that counts. So i'm pretty happy myself when people come over to my place to tour around and enjoy the new year spirit wif me! :)



as we walk.. a brilliant idea struck me!!





"let's have a dog-hunting expedition! We shall find as much dog-related stuffs as possible in this crowd!", I said with a grin :D






she agreed.







and so began our adventure ...






tala! Prosperity Dogs. looks so prosperous rite?




Turtle with Dog Canisters (it looks like toilet paper holder in real life)




Doggy Bookmarks. very small o_o




this is the enlarged copy ^^ . cool rite?




hmm! actually she did the sign wrongly -_- it shld be "..v."




Turtle with a Doggy balloon!




thank God it ain't kissin me. :P




Lion puppet. something i din see b4 previously .. :)




very odd!-looking merlion keychain. (wad big eyes it has !)




we spent abt 30 mins of our time in tis stall. guess we are both puzzle freaks :D




Ha. Chai Sheng Ye (aka Money God) is just everywhere. even on top of de stall..




guess wad's on her hand!? nope she din lay an egg :)




The Amusing Ice Cream seller ... who always plays around with his customers :) they are just so cool and entertaining :)




ever felt like joining him for a combine guitar show. (he plays pipes and guitar together) hmmm...





At de end, i escorted turtle back home. well i wun want her to lose her way back to Outram MRT (and she sooo insist on boarding @ outram mrt -_-). But it's a real fun time spent! :) food, jokes and plenty of walk. wad a great night it was !

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NSSC CNY Celebration!

Well Chinese New Year in our camp was quite interesting. Though it's kinda boring celebration i feel ... nevertheless .. the New Year spirit is there. :)






Jon and me. having some fun before de actual celebration.. :)




Lao Yu Sheng [before the items and spices are added]




Lao Yu Sheng [ after items added ... plus maybe some drops of saliva from de starving crowd.]




The MCees for this celebration. Desmo, premku and mick




our office decos :)








hours later... (after the celebration end)









Prem went to my House! aka CNY visit round 3!



Carrom and board games @ my hse.. with PremKu!








hours later...







Titus Joined us ! :)



tala! we met up with Titus! my usher friend from my team. :)
(ps: he's eating the magic ice cream aka popsicle)




Den we hurried to take pics again :D lol .. (quite blur sorry :P)




Something interesting i found!! shoots that grow out of this animal stem-bodies!. it's very unqiue!




Lookin for Dogs ? there! some hot dogs u should nt miss!





another entertaining ice cream seller! ha! the kids he was playing with are so cute! they've all fallen to his tricks!!





We ate Ice Kachang here b4 we left! :) another great time spent!






Wad a night!! ha haven touch on the main reunion dinner topic yet. but got to zzz :) continue nxt time ! buahahahaha

















ok i'm back. man.. thou shall continue. :)








well one thing i pretty anticipated this CNY is our Reunion dinner.


you know they say a family that eats together stays together. i feel that it's really true. It's so hard to have dinner nowadays with our families. Our life is so occupied with our personal responsibilities, work commitments or studies , and other misplaced priorities. We've just forgotten how much a simple dinner with our family counts to family happines. Well frankly speaking, i've never paid much attention about dinners. I mean, most of us would plainly think that having a meal is just a simple process of filling our stomachs, getting the energy we need in our blood stream. But somehow over the years, i kinda carry a deep envy of families that get to enjoy the priviledge of having a family dinner together. And i dun mean dinner where parents nag or scold their kids .... or new-age kids that are glued to their GBA, PDA, or PSP when having their family dinner. It's the simple dinner where there are no restrictions. No criticism. No distraction. Just plain heart-heart talk with each other over a simple meal. Wouldn't that be nice?



This year's reunion dinner was as per usual. Steamboat at my house. Every relative i knew came. Somehow i feel awkward around my uncles and aunties. They've only been asking about my studies, how confident i am in getting my results. Maybe the adult world is just a sort of pragmatic-based world. i dunno. sometimes i feel quite annoyed when i'm around with them. so i'll always try to take a step to talk abt something else .. sigh.



oh well enuff of those blues. :) i pretty enjoy their visit to my cosy little house. :) many pics i've taken!







Me and Cousin Benedict. He's more interested in eatin than takin a pic wif me..




my aunties and baby cousins. (those who have finished their dinner)




my uncle .. very busy eating. very busy indeed.




my father. i'm quite glad he visited me :)




My Cousins. (from left .. Standing : Brother William and Tony) (sitting : Cousins Delia, Willet and Gabriel)




My cousins playin CS usin my com. ( lol too bad my mouse is half-spoilt :P)




My brothers watchin my cousin play CS. :)




My uncle with little'Jo. She's abit cranky .. doesn't want me to carry :(




our parting pic .. before they leave. I stayed in their hse the followin day-s :)





Fireworks!!! they are so big (cos im very close to it^^).. for once they can be captured on my cam phone.




dispersed sparks (not very impressive shot i know)





Very colourful rite!?





I stood on one of the balcony .. overlookin the stage. :) so cool rite?




well i went down to join in the fun.guess wad ? there are lotsa party confetti all over the floor. and i mean LOTS of it. it's pretty nice sight. Especially when u catch kids playing around with those shiny coloured paper .. very much in their own world. Everyone is feeling jolly. i was glad i came down :)



Sis Rabbit den called me .. sayin her grp of funky frens (usher leaders) are walkin down to Chinatown.. so they might be able to meet me. I can't believe they wanna walk Esplanade to here! .... but well in the end they didn't. I wonder how they are goin to squeeze thru the crowd and go home from there.. hmmm hmmm. i dun care .. lol :P









:) That's all. Happy CNY~

Feeling funny

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sigh i've been feeling funny all week.





i dunno... i just feel like being alone. away from everyone just for a period of time.





there's this thought in me that urges me to get away from all my friends. from everyone. something i think it's not healthy. so forgive me if i've not been a good smiley friend to you these few days.












But it'll all be ok. it'll be.

Family matters

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i've had a pretty great week. But somehow my weekend at home wasn't pleasant at all . :(



i've returned home yest night to discover a messy room and no food left behind for a hungry soul (that's me). I've felt pretty upset but i wun go into the details. and the next series of events that happen in the house makes me a pretty bad testimony as a born-again Christian.



yah u shld get the idea ...



i spend my Sunday broading over what happen. I am still quite surprised that there's still a scary, angry side of me.. still livin in there. i mean ...... who would know there's such as bad bad side of Jason? (unless of course i would!! ).







But sadly i don't.






but God does.






you know somehow i feel happy and sad thru-out the day. Sad and guilty over what i've said to my granny yesterday. I did not show her much respect as my granny at all. I began to try to reason and justify my actions. But it all didn't work out. Because clearly i am at fault. It's not her responsibility to make sure my room was tidy when someone else messed it up. And she was probably having a good family time together with my visiting relatives. that's why she has forgotten to keep the food for me when i returned.





as i did spring cleaning today ... i was pretty sad over the state of my attitude towards this family. It seems that the bitterness, the anger, hurt and sadness are still present in me.





But. i am thankful that God showed me this.




Because my life could be so much worst when i am married and have kids if i do not know how to deal with family matters now. It's just amazing to see how God works in your life. He cracks you up and lets you see the very bad things in you that you've got to change. Just by having a simple relationship with my Abba Father, i've learn this.




I need to start buildin on my family bonds. and start making a difference there.






yea.

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week highlights ...








CNY Office Decorations and Spring Cleaning!


our office has turned crimson red! with ang pows :D




Celeb the year of the Dogs. My God-mom's cute Dog on display!








mini - Jamming @ Desmondo's place.


went to wack on his guitar. pretty nice Taylor guitar.








NSSC Cohesion programme : Called to Battlefield 2!

bringing army warfare to a whole new level...
in computer games ! :)



called for duty. 4 teams match. Charlie was my compay.





Jon and me taking a break from the battlefield..




my comerades! Ron, me and Joel (at the back)
(taken by Jo's cam)




preparing to move out..








1st Cell Group of 2006.


ha took a pic with little Lerissa b4 cg. (she's carrying a balloon sword!)








gonna do overnight duty tmr. sigh.
ha but nvm, it'll be good :)

Deja Vu.

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hey! i have been pretty excited to share this entry! Really :)



It's like really WOW!



I have shared i tink once or twice my experience of Deja Vu(s). Erm in case you din noe ... it's a french word!!! very frenchy in nature. Deja means already. Vu means seen. So it describes an experience, or a sense that you have seen something before. And i do mean seen. It's like your mind has captured a particular shot of image ... somewhere in the past... and that image suddenly flash right infront of you in real time. It's really hard to describe and put it in the form of words. And i've been getting Deja Vu's ... way back when i was young kid. I don't really know is it before or after i accepted Christ. Because right when i was 5 years of age .. i was already in a Christian kindergarden.


The amazing and yet scary thing is i can't really make up what these visions mean. I get images of what happens in the future, usually at night when i sleep. And the funny thing is i hardly remember what i dream of the next day. A very recent Deja Vu i had was when i was ushering in Expo ... and more to that ... it's not really an image. it's like i was right there doing what i saw i did. I had that experience before we actually moved to Expo.


yea ... Apparently, i wasn't the only one having such disturbing encounters. When Ps Kong asked if anyone experienced Deja Vus before in their life ... i was very surprised to see quite a number of City Harvesters sharing the same encoumters as i've seen. I asked Mom last year if seeing these signs are healthy? And she told me to pray about it... Never did i expect God to show me the answer yesterday in service.


Deja Vu is a spiritual thing. It occurs when God (throught the Holy Spirit) takes us to see His mind. His plans of the future that would come to past. But i do realise something too as the Pastor preach about Deja Vu. It has very little to do with fate and predestination. I believe it's all about the choices we made in life .. that God would show to us how the future is like base on our choices. Because God would never force us to walk a path we do not wish to walk. :)


As Ps Kong share the message .. i was really touched. I feel honoured. I always thought i was a product of some failed experiment. That my life created here was a mistake. Really ..... I would dwell in self-pity .... sdo that i can find a temporal relieve. Yet in those times ... God constantly reveals to me glimpses of the future. and sometimes i feel that it gives me hope. It makes a broken boy, seek something divine. It makes me wonder if there is somebody really out there that cares for me.



God works in ways we cannot see.



So i've really given up on trying to understand the things that happen around me. I choose to seek Him. In the very right time ... He'll reveal it all to me. :)

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Well i am getting more and more attached to my usher team. Ha ... my team is real funky. When i feel tired, they would talk funny things that makes me go .. ha-ha-ha~ and i forgot i was tired. lol!


And the sisters are really sweet. They have blessed everyone in my team with goodies and nice munchy food almost every week. I must say they are really nice people. :) There's one girl that i pretty enjoy messing her hair. hmmm i can very well say it's such a cool cool team!



Well that's all! Thanks for staying tune. till next time ...



but wait wait!!




Eye candies coming up~







Pictures of the week :)

Office life can really be boring and mundane. So Desmond and I have come out with our very own art gallery to spice up the office life. Here's it! Introducing .......


Desmondo's realistic Artwork


Hyenas. A cross between Human and Hyena.
ps: it looks like its crying..




Venom. Spiderman's natural enemy..




Ogre Suicidal bomber. This Ogre has willingly took up what terrorist's today are famed in commiting.




Angel of Chaos.


and now.... *drumrolls* introducing my own stroke of masterpiece.







Jason's New Generation creative artwork



My very own stickman - Toothy Man. very toothy hor?




When Venom recks chaos .. it's up to Spiderman to save de day.




The ever-hairy Wolverine.
ps: one of its claws is spoilt. so cannot come out..




He's more than a bird. More than a plane.. More than some pretty face beside a train...




Combine Masterpiece: Desmondo's Dracon versus Jason's " Harry, the bumble-dragoon"
Ps: Harry might have small wings. But it learns from his friend .. the bumblebee the aeronautical techniques of flight. Who do u tink will win?

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Chinatown visit with Ushermates!


Well one of the usher has returned from New Zealand to spend Christmas and new year with us :) So after work ... i went to met them to tour around Chinatown.


It was raining! and i fell down with big big splash that day :(


Nevertheless we had great fun :)




Dragon and me!




Sis Rabbit and me :)
ps : yr name mentioned le!




Some of my Usher mates :)

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After Saturday's Service.

Preparing to celebrate 2 special persons' bday!



our cg chilling out.




Bday girl Agnes. Her wish is to know more and be closer wif God :) tat's awesome.




Bday boy : Bro Kim Hock (xtrem right). Chong and me took a shot wif him :)
ps: Did i mention our whole zone celebrate bday for him. It's magnificent men!



Jarrad, " wad abt me? "




he is real cute :)

yea. tat's all the eye candies of this week :)