Fortune Teller Says...

that thursday's snowboarding trip will be a complete disaster! why? because i am SO excited to go.... and whenever i'm super excited, something will inevitably go wrong. but still, i can't help my feelings right?

please please let it be a wonderful day..... :)

fcs retreat!

i love my new camera. so shiok to be able to take pics without lugging big camera around! of course i still love my canon but at least now i can take pictures everyday, anywhere! so we went to chuck and ann's house for our fcs mini retreat, which was wonderful even tho it's just 6 of us! turned out to be an all-guy's retreat too, cos cherie was sick. but then again, it wasn't really all-guy, cos we had the cutest little girl around! gabriella! she was adopted by chuck and ann, from a dysfunctional family, and she's just so so cute. apparently tho, she has Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) which causes her to mutate into a ferocious biting animal at times but still. so cuteeee!

and yankai had his 3rd birthday celebration, which was a total surprise. chuck and ann are so sweet! anyway, the retreat was very welcome for me, cos i had a lot on my mind and i really needed to go somewhere where i could just rest, be happy, and lift up all my worries and troubles to Jesus! and so nice to be able to worship the Lord with friends. thanks joseph for being the chief organizer, without whom this could never never have happened. :) 辛苦你了。

joshua and gabriella making music

too cute liao

delicious looking fake fruits

marvin is defeated by foot long sandwich

happy birthday again and again!

taopok!

january babies!

i don't think i've ever hosted a birthday party at my house. until now! and it was 5 birthday parties in one night! cool huh. ok lah, more like 1 birthday party for 5 people... but it was fantastic, from the buying of the birthday prezzies (especially the part when i realized i left everything in singapore) to the cooking, to the jamming session and finally the absolutely side-splitting Telephone Pictionary game we played at the end. so fun. but of course, as with all birthdays i witness in cornell now, it only served to remind me how um... mature *ahem* i am. 25.5 years old! all the young pple around me makes me feel so ancient... the freshies are 6 yrs younger than me! OMG.

people usually pose in the snow...but ok lah

evil lin's banana walnut lovey dovey muffins!

chairman mao and evil lin

joshua's cheesecake with strawberry mountain

heidi attacking cake

cheesecake avalanche

yankai's prezzie on fire!

singaporean goodies omg RAISIN

sigh yankai more macho than me....

cornell students are so smart 1

cornell students are so smart 2

dunno what to take

i think i'm showing signs that i've been in cornell for too long:

1. dunno what courses to take anymore
2. just want the easy professors
3. dread seeing snow in the morning
4. want to be a part time student, not to save money, but just to be a part time student.

die liao. i'm sure when i start work i'd wish i did more during my time in cornell, but now i just wish i was back in singapore! quick somebody slap me and make me get my ass out of bed and do something constructive with my life!!!!

no need to take humanities!

wahhh. so happy -- just went to check things out at the registrar's office, and it turns out that my Japanese Society through Film class is counted as a humanities course, even though last sem they rejected my petition to count it! yay. this means i don't have to take the Christianity in Africa course that i enrolled for this sem, which is pretty interesting but potentially killer, with like 150 pages of readings every week. siao.

so now i hope they didn't make a mistake and make me happy for nothing. in fact, if they tell me in the middle of the semester that they made a mistake, then i dun need to graduate liao.

我的幸福

it's been less than a week, and my pineapple tarts are already vanishing! just as i was savouring one of them, i suddenly realized that i was so blessed, to have a wonderful family that cares for me and a wonderful grandma too! feels so nice to be loved.

woohoo back to skoo!

this is the 2nd day of my very last semester in cornell, assuming i don't fail anything. as usual, ithaca welcomes us with a bout of cold weather that hit -17degC yesterday. ugh. found out some trivia from google too! apparently warmer temperatures cause snow to form, and not vice versa. therefore, when it's super cold, we actually get sunny skies! how weird hor.

still shopping around for courses -- going to try out this "christianity in africa" course for my humanities requirement... man i hate humanities! as a result i have put off taking the humanities requirement until my last semester, and now i finally can't push it back any further. hope it's interesting man. and easy. i need easy courses pls pls pls!

so tired of studying. just got a mail from Pisit (Keppel Land) asking me when i'll be graduating, cos they are restructuring their resources. yay they make space for me! even before i make my decision about whether to join keppel. so nice hor. i can only hope that they will continue to be nice AFTER i join.

oh and, stopped by at DFS in Narita to buy cigarettes for Tom (name changed to ensure anonymity). why do i do these things! against my principles man. but nmind, i will nag him non stop! day after day until he quits or until i'm not his friend anymore haha. quit man! smoking KILLS!

rrrrr.

so hard to fall

i'm walking, walking
through the night
away from the world
toward a new light

and i'm walking, walking
without a fight
on a path of surrender
that's paved in pure white

and i see your face
for it shines in the darkest place

though the journey is long
and there's no end in sight
i know i'll never be lost
when you are walking beside

though my bones are weary
and my body is weak
but it's so hard to fall
when you're with me

and i'm running home again
though the roads they are marked with pain
but as long as i'm found in you
i know that each day
brings me closer still

though the journey is long
and there's no end in sight
i know i'll never be lost
when you are walking beside

though the daylight fades
and i can barely see
but it's so hard to fall
when you're with me