ARRGH !!!!

Ok this is like the time where Uni students start complaining about the amount of work they have.. haha.. ya so hear me !! I think I have the most amount of readings compared to my friends. Am struggling to finish that what is called 'The Woman in White' for lit. Just finished reading and analysing the poems required for the tutorial tomorrow. I've also finished reading the play 'The Cherry Orchard' by Chekov for acting class tomorrow.. such a boring play.. arrgh ! and I cant even pronounce half the names of the characters [they are Russian names] I've only done 2 out of the 7 readings about Spain and Portugal for Empires. Yet to read last week's Roman Gladiator reading for sport and History and this week's Meso American Ball Games as well. Psychology ha.. 5 chapters of that too.. well actually 3 lah.. cos the 1st chapter is rubbish and the 2nd chapter is about the nervous system which I am extremely familiar with. ha. there u go.. my workload.

on other school related stuff, today had empires and psychology tutorial. For Empires, we watched a video on Cortez and montezuma, Cortez was the Spanish guy who like conquered Mexico for the Spanish Government. The funny thing was that the Spanish government din ask him to do so. He did it on his own initiative and asked them for permission to do so. They said yes so he went ahead. Montezuma was the tribal war chief/ king [historians still debating on this] of the aztec civilisation. He believed in the prophecy that one day the reincarnation of some God supposed to have fair skin and red hair would come back and take over his kingdom. Montezuma thought Cortez was the God and Cortez kidnapped montezuma demanding for a ransom. ha... Psych tutorial was an eye opener.. we learnt about visual perception and how the right sphere of the brain takes a greater role than the left in visual perception and the left vision is connected to the right sphere and the right vision connected to the left sphere. So what we learnt after a series of experiment was that the brain processes the left visual spectrum. which in the case of faces, when u look at someone, the left side of his face is processed by your brain and that is how u recognise a person. If you just look at the right side of the person, you may not be able to recognise him. That is why you appear to look different in the mirror and in photographs. cos in the mirror, the left vision spectrum is ur left sided face but in the photograph, the left vision spectrum is ur right sided face. Ok I may appear to be talking rubbish but ha.. interesting..

MY friends..

Ha !! had so much fun today.. went for driving in the morning and in the afternoon Sang came to pick me up then we went to woodlands to meet viki. Wanted to catch a movie before meeting the rest for dinner.. but a convenient time was not available, so we just decided to go over Sang's place for a while and ended up playing bridge till like 7 plus.. Then later met Ishu shan and vikram for dinner at Bishan.. and we had a good time talking ... really laughed and laughed .. Ishu's 'non existent' accent was the center of all jokes.. We ate at cafe cartel and Sang had like wrote the wrong number on the order chit and instead of having some tempura vegetable mix, a grilled chicken came along.. ha.. and viki paid the cafe cartel ppl 26 dollars worth of coins.. How does one carry that much of coins? Shanthini wore a pink tinkerbell t shirt apparently bought at disneyland.. the kind that my niece Nazarena would wear... haha.. I have great friends lah.. they are so fun to be with.. you guys rock


Viki drinking yakult on swing

Sang at her very 'best'

Shan the '7 yr old'

Viki's idea of a good photo

Photo without the finger.

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Brownie !!!

HAPPY

I'm really happy.. Filled with the Joy of the lord... Sunday service was great.. Sunday School was even better.. I had so much fun teaching the kids... Played a game based on the story I thought them today.. was so funny to watch them carry out their actions.. taught them a new song today. And boy did they love it!!

I'm inside outside upside downside
Happy all the time

I'm inside outside upside downside
Happy all the time

Cos Jesus Christ came in
And washed away my sin [phoo....]

I'm inside outside upside downside
Happy all the time

haha.. and I made them jump around and do actions for the song.. and progressively sang it faster and faster. ha ! I jumped along too.. was so fun !! Love being a kid.. ha.. and those kids were like 'poo' instead of pronouncing it with the 'f' sound. Haha... God is amazing lah.. 2 weeks ago I was so down and din know how to handle them.. but now.. I am able to and I'm happy where I am.

Went to see Perrimah after church today. She smiled at me. Supposed to go down to orchard John Little with akka to check out winter clothing.. cos today was the last day for the 20% discount.. but was so exhausted.. I just went back home and slept.. I just lay on my bed and fell asleep in my church attire with my contacts on and wax on my hair.. I woke up surprised to see that it was 845. ha !

Anyways.. on other matters.. this is Dixie Chicks performing Sin wagon in 1 of their concerts.. I think they produce really good music.. Country music is soooooo Good.. and this song is 1 of their bests..

CNY

Chinese New Year is coming soon.. come see the Engine canteen at NUS.. the drinks stall is a mini Chinese Temple.. and the stall people all wear this hats shaped like the boat like gold thingys.. dunno what they are called.. hahaha.. amazing chinese culture..



Haha.. besides this.. today my lit tutorial was kinda fun.. my tutor went to the wrong class and came in 'late' well only like 3 mins late or something ... then she brought the namelist of another tutorial group ! haha... I think shes kinda nice lah.. and she can speak good english ! YAY !! oh.. then we all had to state our distinguishing factor.. so.. mine was I'm blur.. well its true.. I'm kinda blur.. I misplace alot of stuff.. forgetful.. and turn up for classes at the wrong place.. ha ! anways.. had acting class after lit.. was kinda fun.. we played 'acting games'. We had to like express 5 different degrees of happiness, sadness, anger and love.. stef couldnt do the anger thing.. hers looked comical.. we were laughing.. Then after 4 months.. i went for my driving lesson.. haiz... was ok.. I thought It was be so bad.. as I'm hopeless at driving.. but today was driving quite pro.. that the instructor was shocked I had skipped for 4 months. ha !!

Some interesting things happened today.. This annoying old woman on the train was taking advantage of the 'give up your seat to those in need' practice.. There were clearly 2 empty seats on the other side of the train.. but these old woman was like standing so close infront of me expecting me to give up my seat to her !! She was looking at me, pointing to where I was sitting and mumbling something in some unknown manjanfied language.. annoying !!!! I pointed to the empty seats across and told her to sit there.. I think she was pissed.. but who cares.. nonsense lah.. ppl like these really spoil your day.. oh then at school.. someone farted damn loudly in the lift.. haha.. i dunno who it was.. but it was damn stinky.. but everyone acted really civil.. no giggles whatsover ... however no one owned up.. like duh.. he/she will prob die of embarressment.. ha !! went to school frm 2 - 5 for a movie screening for Sport and History.. was really interesting.. it was 2 documentaries. The 1st was on the ancient olympics and the 2nd was on the greek Gods. Was really interesting.. The olympic games started off as rituals to the Gods.. and the associations with the Greek Gods are immense. Ha. Anyways, after school went watch movie at lido. with ?? Guess who ? HA !! Viki Again.. this is the 6th consecutive movie I've watched with him.. well cos usually I watch movies with my sister.. but shes married now.. so that had been cut down drastically. haha..

This movie is great ! I loved it... but it would have been much better without the explicit graphic violence [ie: chopping of heads, pulling the heart from a living person etc..] Basically its about a peaceful tribe of hunter gatherers who are abducted by a more 'advanced' group of people and the story is about how the protagonist escapes back while being 'hunted down' by the kidnappers.. kinda nice.. the ending was kinda cool actually.. cos a more 'advanced' group of people came. ha.. ok i think i am talking rubbish.. anyways. viki had a 40% borders voucher.. so I bought 2 books which I think I would find useful for lit.. Cliffnotes on the Great Gatsby and Macbeth .. the original text with a modern day english translation.. for easy understanding.. well I think it would save alot of time trying to decipher what those lines mean. ha..

Daddy is going to London tomorrow for work related matters and he is going to be there for a week.. So today we all were helping him pack. Naomi akka and Charles anneh came over for dinner [well late dinner] and they were not much help in the packing .. haha.. mom was like the most stressed as though shes going to london.. my dad was like happily eating garlic bread while all his clothes were out of the bag... I think mom was angry that little was being done.. haha.. Dad was showing us all the new winter clothing he got and I was the 'model' haha.. actually i was just playing with the clothes.. Nicky as usual paid no attention to us whatsoever as there was a soccer match going on.. Liverpool Vs Chelsea.. Liverpool won 2-0 I think.. Soccer and Nat will never mix.. This trying out of the winter clothes made me think about New Zealand.. yay !! June is coming soon.. can't wait..

Ermm.. today was the first proper lecture for acting.. Gerald chew our lecturer was kinda cool... he was like "welcome to acting class, I know that most of u guys are in this class for the acting and not for the theory aspect. However, as this is an academic institution, we need to give you some theory knowledge. So let this lecture be an act, where we are the characters. You act as though you are listening to me even if you are sleepy and I'll act as though I'm lecturing you" ... hahaha.. funny lah... I think this module is gonna be fun.. Anyway, met viki and vikram after school, and we went marina billy bombers cos we have this voucher thingy.. we tried the liquor shake.. I tell you its really really nice.. never knew baileys irish cream with vanilla milkshake could taste this good.. bad nat !!


Nat sitting down and deciding what to order..

What I ate today.. ribs.. too full afterwards

vikram being a koo...

Viki needed to buy a bag so we helped him choose a brown slingbag which looked nice lah.. and I was contemplating to get a bag for myself.. but decided not to.. if not my mother and sister will come after me with knives.. too many bags.. too many shoes.. yada yada yada... then we went to borders at orchard cos viki had like 40% discount vouchers.. [I have a feeling that our lives revolve around discount vouchers .. haha..] .. looked around but din see anything interesting to be a must have .... vikram got some book about war and Asia.. ha.... and then we decided to go watch movie... Pan's labyrinth

Ok the movie was entertaining lah.. it was publicised as a fairytale for adults.. I think the movie had a deeper meaning to it, and we weren't sure what it was.. It was like watching 2 seperate movies in 1.. cos it had 2 storylines which intersected with each other.. and it had 2 endings.. Ok it may seem that I'm uttering rubbish here.. but watch the movie and u would understand. ha! not bad lah.. maybe wait for the dvd..

Ya on another note, akka's wedding photos have arrived.. and they are really good.. love the quality and love the angles in which the photographs were taken.. ha.. looking at them brought back memories.. December 2006 was a good month..

School was good today.. lessons were really interesting.. Empires lecture was awesome.. really glad I took this module.. we learnt abt the motives behind the expansion of the Iberial empire and the roles religion, trade and prestige played.. Its such a whiff of fresh air from the normal boring British, India, Malaya, China, Singapore history that I had been exposed to till now.. NUS has indeed made me more critical in my thinking.. Lit lecture was ok lah.. We learnt abt the beats and rhythm in poetry.. and it was kind cool.. at first I thought this poem ars poetica was just a mess of words and utter rubbish... but then.. after analysing it .. It was kinda nice actually.. haha.. was really tired after school.. and had a bad headache.. so I just went home to sleep... and din go out with akka and nicky to get his soccer boots.. my brother is the exact opposite of me.. hes such a soccer fanatic.. I still can't accept the fact that my baby brother has grown up into this 14 yr old teenager.. GOSH !!!!! Hes alot taller than me now.. and its scary when he stands beside me.. Tomorrow I've got no school !! yay !! so I'm just gonna devote the day to housework.. Nicky has no school tomorrow.. some e learning thing where they learn via the internet.. HOW COOL IS THAT???? Ang Mo kio sec never had these cool stuff when I went there.. My room is in a terrible mess.. I've got lots of small small things lying around.. and got clothes all over the place.. well actually.. my cupboard is not sufficient for the amount of clothes I have So I leave them on my rocking chair or my standing mirror.... am still waiting for my sis to clear her ex cupboard so that I can take over hers and have 2 cupboards.. only then I can go out and buy more clothes.. haha..

Sundays = tiring... as usual.. today the kids were a handful.. my patience was put to the limit.. I dun mind kids.. but then when they get too rude.. I can't stand it.. had to combine class with Doris Aunty.. I kinda feel low.. I was at a lost lah.. it had never occurred before.. Usually I could handle all kids.. difficult kids as well as the normal ones.. This just proves that I need God all the more.. With my own strength I am nothing... but with him, I am more than a conquerer... anyways, Pastor Patrick and sis Monica came down from KL to minister to the church yesterday and today.. was really really nice to see them.. and talk to them.. really miss them... was so good to see them again.. and they were so filled with joy.. God is so faithful.. he rocks.. lately I've been feeling really low.. sort of pessimistic.. like there is nothing interesting happening in my life... and nothing to look forward to.. haiz.. school has started .. but I'm not in the mood to study.. which is really bad.. I need to work hard this sem.. I still havent gotten all my books yet.. and I'm feeling guilty..

Long Post ahead !! Haha... wat a day... went to school in the morning excited for Acting Lecture.. The lecturer din show up.. What the hell !! after sitting there aimlessly for like 45 mins, tiffany stef shereen and I decided to go look for Nora Samosir and ask her what was going on.. she was not in.. So went to the department and told them what happened.. Apparently our lecturer is a part time lecturer and the department gave him the wrong Schedule.. haha.. there you go .. NUS admin.. bravo... anyway.. the acting class is like damn small.. only 36 of us.. its scary.. wonder how the bell curve will be like.. anyway there were alot of familiar faces there.. saw like 2 AJC ppl who seemed very familiar.. and some who were from my Theatre tutorial/Practical last sem.. namely Liting and Jen. So ya I've got frens here.. besides.. we all kinda talked cock to each other while waiting for the lecturer to show up.. Oh.. and Ian.. the guy who played in the String quartet at Akka's wedding.. he is also in my acting class.. Its a small world after all.. ya.. so after that.. met viki.. went vivo city ate desert at bakerzin again ! they rock.. after much walking around, we decided to watch padam.. well I guess this 'watching padam with viki' streak is not ending soon.. Vikram came to join us too.. Vikrams doing the same lit module with me.. yay !! another fren. anyways, we watched Fast Food Nation.

The movie was ok lah.. it was M18.. din realise it until the guy asked for id.. haha... it was about the secrets behind a fast food chain.. how they employed illegal immigrants to work in the factories to produce the patties for the burgers and how they are unskilled and because of that, cow manure gets into the meat.. blah blah.. I felt that we should have watched a comedy.. but then.. hey.. never mind.. it was fun hanging out.. Oh then there was this swedish sail ship there.. I thought it was damn cool..I never saw an olden day sail ship replica which looked really authentic before..

Well so after the movie.. I realised that I had a 10 dollar topman voucher I needed to use by the 15th.. So we headed over there and was contemplating between a rather cool black courduroy cap.. or a leather belt with a cool buckle.. I decided to go with the belt.. bought it and we left. I headed towards AMK.. Rosie akka's house.. cos today is Jonathan's 3rd Birthday.. Oh My gosh.. he has grown up.. Was kinda fun.. It was just family.. and we were like excited abt our upcoming New Zealand trip in June.. to see Joyce akka and her soon to be born baby.. Joanna Priya .. Can't wait for June ...

How great is our God.. Sing with me how great is our God.. and all will see how great... how great is our God...

This Chris Tomlin song has been in my mind alot lately.. God is really great..

Today was the first day of school.. Was pretty good. The make shift canteen at LT11 carpark is actually kinda cool.. Ishu dappi forgot to bring her phone and i was sending sms after sms asking her where she was. I entered LT13 and there she was.. sitting at the back.. anyway, even though I was late for the lecture, I found it really good. I am already loving Empires colonies and Imperialism.. the lecturers are good and the content awesome.. Love it... am gonna love this sem... Lit lecture after that was good too.. both the lecturers were good and rather entertaining.. My modules rock lah !! and 3 more to come.. Ishu made me sit with her for sociology of deviance... Oh my it was so so so boring.. I din like it one bit.. I guess I'm not so much a sociology person.. and the content din even interest me at all.. thank God I got outbidded for sociology last sem.. all things work out for the best.. If I din get outbidded, I wouldn't have done history .. ya so first day of second sem was ok.. Looking forward to acting lecture on thurs..

Oh my laptop is working again !! thanks dad for fixing it !! love ya !!

Haiz.. my laptop has some problem .. I'm depressed.. Using my dad's desktop now to enter this post.. My laptop has become so important that I'm depressed that it is not working fine.. haiz... it takes long to boot up, has a funny cracking sound coming out of it and pops up some error message everytime windows loads.. and once it loads I can't open office and I can't connect to the net.. but still can watch friends dvd on it.. so its not that bad.. but not able to connect to the net is bad.. cos my dad's comp has got no MSN. Which means I can't chat etc... arrgh !! well besides my laptop screwing up,

today was the first sunday service of the yr, first sunday school lesson, first youth fellowship of the year.. Sunday school was ok.. am taking the Primary 4s this yr.. they were fun.. Played a gameshow similar to Jeopardy with them.. substituting the categories with bible stories such as Easter, Exodus.. haha some of their answers were hilarious.. Like for who visited the shepherds and told them of Jesus's birth that day, they answered Joshua !! the actual answer is the angels .. Kids can be so entertaining.. was fun.. Youth fellowship was ok .. today marked the 1st youth fellowship for 8 ppl.. Including my Kid brother.. Oh gosh.. I'm growing old... Can't believe Nicky is like in youth fellowship.. arrgh !!

I'm so depressed my laptop is screwed up !! arrgh !

Oh these are the confirmed modules I'm doing this sem..

GEK1000 - Introduction to literary Studies

PL1101E - Introduction to Psychology

HY2245 - Empires colonies & Imperialism

HY2247 - Sport and history

TS2237 - Acting: Theory and Practice

Thought of minoring in English studies.. but I need to clarify a few details.. I'm not sure if I can use lit as a GEM as well as a minor module. Will check it out soon.. I'm also not doing personal finance.. cos there is only 1 vacancy left for it.. and I dun really want to be stressed this sem.. these 5 modules are heavy reading modules and hopefully I can find time..

Watched my 1st Movie of the year.. It was at The Cathay with Viki. Realised that the past few movies I've watched are with him.. Anyway .. the movie was good.. Literature lovers would love it.. Its all about how this Guy Harold [will ferrell] hears this voice everyday narrating whatever he does... In fact the voice belongs to a writer [emma thompson] who is having writer's block struggling to write her latest novel [where Harold is the main character in the book she's wrtiting].. One day as Harold is going to work, he hears the voice talking about his impending death and he wants to stop his death from happening.. HEnce consulting a literature expert [dustin hoffman] to help him find the voice... Kinda cool movie.. enjoyed it.. missed the first 5 minutes of it I think.. Because viki was late.. what a dappi !!!!! after the movie, we went to billy bombers to eat.. Actually I wanted to go there cos I was craving for their malt shakes.. I ate too much.. stomach is so full now.. feel like vomiting everything out.. Walked down Orchard road towards ORchard MRT cos I was so full and desperately wanted to walk.. Anyways, I got the lit module for like 10 bid points.. haha.. and we are doing macbeth.. how cool is that.. even though its not easy, I think it would be interesting.. Can't wait for school to start.. am already loving my modules..

well.. thought I would do a reflection of 2006.. Cos i never actually did one before the year ended.. but.. better late than never.

January 2006 was an emotional rollercoaster. am still struggling from its effects.. hopefully this yr things will turn out better..

February 2006 still celebrated valentines day as a single person.

March 2006 was a good one. Played an important role in running the Children's service - JEsus my Superhero . First time writing and directing a drama. Basically it was about 2 Children being trapped by Super villain 'Madame Sin' and them crying out for ppl to help them, all the superheros come 1 by 1 but get defeated.. In the end Jesus saves them by taking their place. I think people had fun watching us all dress up as superheros.

April 2006 - Thilaga Akka left us for India, I still miss her alot around the house.. Now have to do my own ironing... sad.. haha.. Oh and was writer and director of my 2nd Drama, the one the youths of my Church put up for Easter. It was titled 'The bestest Present' basically it was about a King's Birthday and him demanding his subjects to get him the best present possible. The subjects head of in different directions, 1 bringing him money, another an Xbox, the third expensive clothes and beautiful models as wives, 4th one bringing him delicious food and the 5th one bringing him the cross which symbolises Jesus and eternal life. It was great..

May 2006 - Dun remember anything significant happening.

June 2006 - Children's Camp in church.. was good.. The Great Space Adventure 2006.. Came up with the theme and the logo and I really had fun painting aliens and decorating the church. June also was the time I extracted my right wisdom teeth. Had long MC .. as I was still in NS.

July 2006 - Extracted my left wisdom teeth, more MC and starting to slack in Camp switching to ORD mood. Emily akka and James anneh got married on July 15

August 2006 -Aug 9th Joyce Akka's wedding .. was really great !! I did the backdrop for her wedding.. Aug 12th Alen's wedding. Aug 14th - Start of my 1st sem in NUS ... Aug 20th Shamala's Engagement ... Aug 22nd - ORD YAY !!

September 2006 - Church's 40th anniversary celebrations on Sept 2nd, September 9th was my third drama - The Royal Family for the Children's service.. Was about 2 children who have low self esteem and think they are useless and unimportant, get sucked into a fairy tale world and cant leave. They are told they need the help of the Royal Family to get back home. On the way, they discover tat they have hidden talents and are not so useless after all. At the castle, they bump into Jesus who tells them that they are the Royal Family and that 1 Peter 2:9 says that God has chosen everyone of us to be part of his Royal Family. Mary got married on September 10th, Shamu got married on September 23rd.

October 2006 - World revolved around school church and home

November 2006 - Heaven's gates and Hell's Flames.. was tiring but good.. It was in the midst of Exams and couldnt really study.. but.. nvr mind.. all things work out for the best.. I have no regrets.. I dun really miss this.. Cos i dun really remember having fun for it.. It was so so lah... But I was really glad to be part of it.. really glad..

December 2006 - Busiest Part of the year !! Dec 2nd - Naomi akka's wedding.. Dec 19th - 21st Caroling.., Christmas.. December was a really good month.. Loved it to the maX !!! hopefully next december would be as eventful and lively.. I am kinda sad that its all over.. miss the fun..

This yr was the yr of Dramas and weddings.. Coolness..