Posts Tagged: Singapore


22
Sep 09

The Yellow Story

vans

A quick conversation where Mom is in a skate shop in Medan while Me is in my room in Singapore.

Mom: Mei, check your e-mail, I sent you an image of a yellow shoes you might like.

Me: Okay.

[After looking at the image (embeded above)]

Me: The brand is…

Mom: It’s VANS

Me: Wah, [very excited], how much does it cost?

Mom: This one is 155000 rupiah (roughly S$22)

Me: Oh, good, cheap! Is it real?

Mom: Wait, I’m gonna check with the owner.

[Was about to shout some words towards the shop's owner in Hokkien]

Mom: Eh, no need to ask lah. So cheap, confirm fake one lah.

Me: Err.. Okay..

So, ’till now I’m still not sure whether it’s a real or fake Vans. But whatever! I’m getting a Yellow Shoes!


13
Apr 09

Easter and Aaahh

What has it been reduced to?

It is sad and disappointing to know that people nowadays do not appreciate or even have the decency to respect the meaning of Good Friday and Easter. No one really cares about Good Friday.,and they care a little bit about Easter because just like Halloween, it’s a National thing in the US. Easter Egg Hunt and the Bunny costume. People don’t even remember what the eggs mean anymore. Don’t even get me started on the bunny which is just like Santa Claus on Christmas Day. And apparently easter egg hunt seems to be more interesting and important than the sermon on that day. Or maybe if Easter falls on Saturday, no one will really come to church.

This makes me miss Singapore so much, despite the hectic and pressing schedules and the principle of “doing nothing is crime”.

Life goes on, with all its ups and downs, joy and sadness, fun and difficulties, vigor and pain because that’s the reality, each is part and parcel of the other. Sometimes it’s depressing to go through so much joy at one time, just to be shattered by a whole day of screw-ups. Depressing to a point that I just want to give up trying, escape to somewhere where I ‘think’ I can have joy all the time. But what I’ve learnt through my many escapism acts in the past is that during ‘escapism’ period, one just felt an empty joy, or a sheer fake joy. So, why escape? Hehe. Maybe too many of those made you ‘immune’ to the drastic changes and just try to move on with a heart full of hopes.

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Blessed are the men who fear Him, they ever walk in the ways of peace.

Elias Oratorio by Mendelssohn


9
Sep 08

NC’08 in Pictures

Last Thursday to Saturday I have this 3-day conference in the Salvation Army, Upper Bukit Timah. The name of the conference is National Conference 08: Integrated Life, Integral Mission. It was a fruitful one and I hope each and everyone attending the conference felt the same way. (Oh and yes, the conference has added a few more days of sickness for me too :P )

Here are some of the images I’ve managed to capture with my iPhone


13
Aug 08

iPhone: It’s Coming!

It's Coming!

It's Coming!

My N80’s battery is going to explode soon. It is now more and more pregnant. Hm… maybe it is waiting for iPhone to continue its loyalty to MahaRatu Paturishya.

Maybe…