1 Year Anniversary at 12:34 AM

Saturday, December 24, 2005

Oh man i just got back home from carolling, it was so fun we had really great events planned out for us and it was just great worshipping God and having so much fun at the same time.

The first part was hilarious, Uncle Chee Seng and Lam Seng, the two church deacons, were heads of two groups and each group had to guess the title of a christmas carol using hints and then the first group had to grab a baton out of Pastor Heng's hand and then sing the carol to earn points. It was just incredibly funny watching the two of them rush for the baton at the same time and Uncle Lam Seng snatching it out of Pastor's hand and raising his hands in triumph, i mean, two grown men! HAHAH! Wonderful singing too, christmas songs always just make your heart glow with love. Last year i was at orchard and esplanade walking around enjoying the festive mood with a throng of people, and that was fun too, but just came home exhausted and didn't have much meaning. But this year man, it was great, the worship, the games, the message from Pastor about God being the light, just gives a whole new meaning to your life and i've come home smiling and with a heart glowing with love.

Man baptism tomorrow, i'm really feeling a bit jittery over it now, i mean, it's something i've been looking forward to for such a long time and i really wanna do it, i'm just grinning like an idiot here thinking about it, but whoo, i hope i don't screw up my speech after or something, but trust God, and everything will come out great :)

Accepting Christ means being born again, born as a Christian, i really have been born again, changed a lot since i truly accepted God into my life and let him take over everything in my being; and man i'm gonna be born again on the day that Jesus Christ was born, couldn't have picked a better occasion :D Just hope i can follow in his footsteps and mould myself in his likeness.

Just thank God for all the good times along with the bad, the good times with all the love and care and joy that are his blessings, and the bad where we learn our lessons on what we shouldn't do in the future and re-affirming our faith in Christ at the same time, because it's during these powerless times where you feel that there's nothing you can do that God just lifts you up and tells you through his word "I'll see you through this", such a comfort, it just makes you wanna break down and cry as your heart swells with love for your heavenly Father, his love for you, his faithfulness that will never fail you.

I thank God for guiding my life, and putting me through all these tough times where i've been tested, and definitely for putting me in this great school that i spent the best 4 years of my life.
I certainly do take away so many memories from RI...so many things i've learnt...from being punished by the former discipline mistress and Mr. Wong for fighting in school in sec 1 till i was crying my eyes out...the first and last time i'll ever do something that stupid...Getting 1 vote for U-14 captain in Judo(thanks Xinyang :P) and spending the whole night feeling like my guts got ripped out from inside me and wondering what i did wrong, pondering over Mr.Eng's words: "Lincoln, you know why you're not captain? Because you talk too much rubbish." Oh and how can i forget, how Mr. Wong(yet again heheh), made me feel so miserable because i was being a brat and wanted to quit squash but just wasn't doing it the right way, disrespecting all authority, and i'm telling you guys man, don't ever piss off Mr. Wong, because no matter how hard you think you are, ooh yeah he'll break you. Man i seriously was one spoilt little fat irritating dipshit in sec 1, i look back and just wince at how much of a pest i was. Seriously i feel like murdering my past self. Ah yes but the hardest and most deeply etched memory will definitely be how i was made to miss the Sec 1 Orientation because of a choice i made. Now it seems like a wrong choice definitely...but if you gave me the same choice ten thousand times in that same time, i would probably still have made the same decision, not a good one man...oh yeah, that still stays really really deep inside. But still, i thank Mr. Lim and Mrs. Lim for what they taught me, get your priorities right or you are in for a world of pain...Come to think of it...Mr. Lim really has brought much pain into my life. It's all his fault that even on my bloody graduation ceremony stupid Walter Wong pronounces my surname wrongly!!! THANKS A LOT MR. LIM!!! Narghhh...

But there were of course, lots of great memories too, and times where it's just God's blessing tha sees you through. Becoming U-17 Captain for Judo, oh man, i'll remember that day for the rest of my life, it was something i knew i wanted so bad and fought for so hard every single day in RI, if i didn't get it i really wouldn't have counted my Rafflesian life as complete, but i did. And i'll always remember what happened after that too... -.- " Bloody wah tong...much masking tape. Many markers. Much deep heat. Many cameras. Sheet.

Becoming prefect, getting to know Mr. Lim a lot better...having him pick on me every single time he saw me...getting my surname massacred...getting lubbed by him...my gosh my prefectorial career seems to be full of pain and misery :P No lah definitely not, the times we worked on all the major events and just stayed back so late to make sure everything went well, and seeing everything come together, the feeling is just so enormous you wanna leap and scream with joy because seeing something you threw sweat blood and tears in succeed is just immense.

Of course, wining the U-17 Gold for THE FIRST TIME IN TEN YEARS BABY WOOHOO!!!! That is the first time i ever saw Mr. Eng that elated and when i came out of my bout he was just bounding towards us jumping with joy, literally, such a great day it really felt like what we worked 4 years for came together. To all my sec 4 Judokas out there, we are the best batch that RI has seen in a long long time man and we wouldn't be where we are without any one of you, even if you weren't in the team, you came down every training and all 13 of us were constantly there pushing each other on, and only 1 of us quit? Man...we kick ass :P You guys better continue training hard in JC ok or i promise i will personally...do something very bad...you don't wanna know what.

And how could i ever forget all my friends and all my classmates, the strippings, the corny jokes, the crazy class incidents, the flipping of Mr. Gregory Goh's pencil box in sec 2, throwing a paper ball out of the window that landed on Mr. Mac's car that caused him to swerve and almost crash(oh yeah i'm not kidding) the...zhangrui part 1 AHHAHA!! Narpal running out of class half naked with Daniel chasing him and running into Mrs. Albar(that was bloody hilarious), Zhanyuan getting abused almost every day. Alvin Tan and his scandalous scandals heheh! Alvin sits beside me in class and he's a damn nice guy always willing to help in anything at all, i have never seen him get pissed off before in 2 years ok. But when we found out about "cough cough" we just couldn't stop teasing him man, i mean he's just such a good boy it is so hilarious.

*sigh* I'm glad i still have my close bunch of sec 1/2 friends though, Alex, Alvin, Zhangrui, and none of us are Singaporean HAHAHAH!! Man hope it continues through to JC, i would hate to lose any one of these guys they just play a really integral part of my social life.

Anyway enough with the nostalgia, go and watch Daniel Powter's "Free Loop" video!!! It is such a great video with the piano and everything, i don't even know most of the words but the video is wonderful go watch it i love it, and if you're into something with a lot of soul that's pretty easy on the ears try listening to "No worries" by Simon Webbe i like that too.

Well Christmas is in an hour, time to have the phonelines spammed through millions of messages going out in Singapore. But let's not forget the gravity of this day, the birth of our Lord and saviour. Merry Christmas you guys :)