Saturday, August 23, 2008 ; anthem of love
i havent updated for quite some time, cos i've been too lazy to do so.
this week has been quite an eventful week.
firstly last saturday was the nike volunteers briefing. we met at 9.30am at dover mrt, to go to SP. sp is so hard to navigate, cos the signs dont point to the right place. lol. eventually, we found the place. most of us are doing route marshaling and are in group 2! we've to report at 1.30pm on the 31st of august, even though the thing actually starts at like 4pm. after that, we went to eat lunch at this market near fmss and acjc and acs, that will close next year. too bad for the students next year. then, i went for arrow service. service was really good. it really addressed the issues that i had been facing, not in my life, but more so, in my mind. long before you see challenges manifest in your reality, the turmoil first starts in your mind, starting with a thought that you choose to focus on. anyways, this is yong de's first time joining us for dinner! for the 2nd time, we didnt da-pao food from everywhere and sit opposite the rock and it. we went to just noodles! for $8, i had a meal and soup, plus free flow of drinks and ice-cream! lets go there more often! kailin and i like the mango ice cream. and then, they celebrated sean's, dave's and my birthday. all the august babies. the cake was really spongy. hahaha. then, the 3 of us got birthday prayers. jo, thanks for praying for me (:
sunday was the FFTH filming. it went very well. the volunteer kindly agreed to let us film her collecting the bread and then sending it to the home. and one of the staff from FFTH drove us from the collection site to the home, and then dropped us off at vivocity. so nice of her! on the way to the home, we saw people running in the run NUS competition. i remembered prashan was running. he got 2nd overall, and won $200 worth of reebok vouchers!
anyways after the filming, we walked around in vivocity looking for a wallet for me. haha and of course look at many other shops too. justin followed us around too, even though we were looking at girl's clothes. then we ate lunch at long john silvers. when we were about to start eating, one of the staff came and asked us whether gonghua and i wanted our trays. when gonghua said she wanted, then the guy said that they needed the trays back cos there were not enough. we were abit stunned for a moment. haha.
monday was my brother's 1st day of school at SMU! i'm quite excited for him. he said it was okay. lol. i wanna go there too. i wanted to go for night study, but in the end a lot of ppl not going, so i didnt go. but its okay.
on tuesday after school i chionged to the polyclinic before it closed at 5.30pm. the people at the medicine dispensing counter must have thought i was crazy cos i asked the doctor for 16 tubes of creams.
the date of wednesday was 20082008. prashan cleared level 4, 12 rounds. he practically sprinted ok! it was like 1.10min per round. i'm happy for him! during odac i did prusiking and abseiling. i was so blur when it was the prusiking-abseiling changeover part, but everyone was so kind to help me. they are all so cartoon cos everyone i ask a question like, 'is it do this'? cheryl will be like, dont tell her dont tell her, let her do herself. but in the end, they will tell me what to do. and this happened for like at least 6 times.
thursday after school i went with chiaps to toa payoh. i wanted to sell my running shoes that i barely wore, but in the end i didnt. value dollar store has cheap stuff, and i was so tempted to buy all the biscuits. in the end i bought the dewberry biscuits that everyone loved during xp. i bought cos i missed eating it. then i went back to school for devotionals. devotionals was quite short and we talked about many other stuffs. what i like about devotionals is that we gather once a week and we just chat and share about jesus, cos we hardly see each other around the entire week.
friday i did ropes again. after that, mr lim talked about taxo stuff, then we were suppose to run 2.4km. everyone was mentally prepared already, but then there was the lightning warning, so we couldnt run. goshy, taxonomy test on wednesday, ropes level 2 test on fri, and 2.4km run next week. so much stuff. training ended at 6pm, cos the next day had odac again. but then, we stayed longer at fork and spoon, playing woohoo again. fern won the game. jinshi was so blur.
saturday which is today was spent going to sungei buloh nature reserve and kranji war memorial. we were suppose to meet at 6.40am at kranji mrt station, which is on the red line near woodlands. i woke up at 5.15am, but my first bus only comes at 6am. i made edmund late too, cos we met at bugis mrt to take train tgt. in the end, we only left kranji at 8am. i'm too lazy to go into details but overall today was quite interesting.
ok time to eat dinner and to do pw editing. tmr is the Bay Run competition. good luck to those who are participating. do your pb ok! for the girls, aim to do it under an hour. it can be done.
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