SNEAKS!!

Check out these happening shots from our rehearsal!! all taken from my trusty k800i!

The Special Guest - Gingerbread Man!!! (currently putting up at a nice condo east side)



Faithful community hard at work each rehearsal!!



Getting more excellent each time!! abit shaky la. i neh set it to the taking fast moves mode..



Dynamic street choir!!



Young blood good!!



Funky Hip Hop Dancers in cognito!



my mueyz..



Real Life Testimonies!




Crazy Emcees!!



all image gone, but who cares in the name of good fun!!



order in court!!





i told you the emcees were crazy..





and talented, dedicated and zai zai creative director and producer..




basty and kalaiiii!!!!!!!!!!



and very many other long suffering people, all hard at work (like our logistics team, backstage crew and the gingerbread man!!)!

Somemore got exciting prizes, games and songs.. are you excited already or what??!!

BE THERE!!

How I am easily amused..

Last weekend, I bought something that made me really happy.



not so much because it is chioh and classy and all that jazz - THIS feature was the determining factor!!



3.2 mega pixels leh.. dont play play - i heard you can even blog with this phone directly.. and this phone has this incredible function..

Check out the faces of some of my favouritest ppl in church..

Presenting:

Big Brother Daniel Kalai..


Keithfu


Ben


You know how I lurve farnee people!

But lest you think my church is full of wierdos - let me show you what my phone can do..

Say we take a normal picture:



And it can do this:



this.



this.



or this!



You wanna act cute also can..



and many more..

Makes you thank God you turned out the way you turned out - imagine how else terrible it would be!!!!

Anyhows, I must apologize for the lack of substantive posts up here - there have been rather eventful days lately (like the return of MY BROTHER!!! from the States, and the gathering of my old girls) but i have been REALLY tied up with the planning and preparation of the Count-Down Party at my church .. but thank God that i am doing it with fun people.. else sure cmi.. so i cant say i am complaining about my role as lovely assistant and/or kahkia.. lol.. it's fun la.. but super tiring..

Be that as it may, and perhaps i should say.. ALL THE MORE SO.. COME!!! for the PARTY!! if you are in town.. It's gonna be REAL FUN.. cuz yours truly is gonna be one of the hosts..

more updates SOOON!!

World Map to Young Singaporeans

This partner in my firm sent me an email with the following caption,

"am not surprised this approximates reality, having come across young Singaporeans who do not know their geography!"



*guilty look*

I don't think I am so jialat la.. but remember how i always have to run to the atlas after conversations with clients cuz I dunno which part of the world a particular port is in??

but u dont say, i used to top the class/ standard in geography - human geog la.. heh.

Judging a Book by its Cover

So this is a book I actually bought because of its cover.

I don't do that often, bookworm that I am.. heh.

Book is about the autistic 15 year old Christopher John Francis Boone, and how he sets out to investigate the murder of his neighbour's dog - simply because it was important to him to do so, and because it was interesting. Christopher is an amazingly intelligent young man with a superbly logical mind (confirmz plus 100% he is smarter than me!) So his endeavours at investigating the murder is complicated by his condition because he has problems adapting to the "real world". Christopher cannot decipher what people really mean socially because he takes them at face value.

I got this definition of autism from the BBC website, "Autism is a lifelong neuro-developmental disability that affects the way a person communicates, and severely limits their ability to relate to others in a meaningful way, develop friendships or understand other people's feelings.... People with autism have a triad of impairments in social interaction, social communication (verbal and non-verbal - they don't understand the meaning of gestures, facial expressions or tone of voice) - and imagination."

So anyhows, in the course of his investigations, he stumbles into another mystery, unexpected twist - which cuts at the very heart of human nature.

*dramatic sigh*

This book is ficitional, and some have criticized his portrayal of the medical condition as trite ... well, whatever, it nevertheless stirs up acute sentiments in me.

This book got me thinking, two issues mainly:

(i) this world is really too complicated. christopher has a problem because he takes people for what they say, or appear to be saying, really - just how much pain has been caused by tongues that run amok, or are careless? just how many times do we encounter situations where things are just made more difficult because people just wont let their yes BE a yes, and their no BE a no? I am not talking about women being coy here, like how when they say yes, they really mean no. *rolls eyes* i am referring to normal human interaction which is complicated by politics and vying and what have yous.

I think the world will be a better place if people would be more sincere and humble to one another in their interaction - to your bosses, colleagues and secretaries; parents and relatives; teachers and schoolmates..

too many have said that the sincere and nice guy would 'lose out'. i disagree. and i intend to continue to be sincere and nice to people, all the days of my life.

note - being sincere and nice doesnt mean that i agree with being a doormat, you can still be firm.. but that's another story.

(ii) i should be thankful for who i am.

Christopher's condition reminds me that there are people out there who really have it bad. Of late, I have had the opportunity to meet with people who have lost their sight or hearing, or are facing various medical conditions. You know, in the past, I used to wonder why God didnt make me smarter, or less 'assertive', or richer, or whatever - but that's really ungrateful..

Think most of us should be, I definitely should be, thankful that I have all my 5 senses, have the ability to express myself and communicate with other people, and am in a generally loving environment.. Was flipping through Newsweek the other day and saw a picture of african kids taking an exam in a really dowdy room, and we have kids all over the world with no childhood..



or we dont even need to look far - just in Singapore, so many teenagers out there who are suicidal because they have nothing to look forward to, or the many ex-cons wanting to reintegrate into society. the list is endless..

the world would be a much happier and better place if people would quit complaining about how their lives are, and start looking outwards.

think about it. did you make the world a better place for anyone in the last week?
when was the last time you showed a little kindness?

it's free you know.


so the song by Glen Campbell goes, "Try a Little Kindness"

If you see your brother standing by the road
With a heavy load from the seeds he's sowed
And if you see your sister falling by the way
Just stop and stay you're going the wrong way

You got to try a little kindness
Yes show a little kindness
Just shine your light for everyone to see
And if you try a little kindness
Then you'll overlook the blindness
Of narrow-minded people on the narrow-minded streets

Don't walk around the down and out
Lend a helping hand instead of doubt
And the kindness that you show every day
Will help someone along their way

You got to try a little kindness
Yes show a little kindness
Just shine your light for everyone to see
And if you try a little kindness
Then you'll overlook the blindness
Of narrow-minded people on the narrow-minded streets

You got to try a little kindness
Yes show a little kindness
Just shine your light for everyone to see
And if you try a little kindness
Then you'll overlook the blindness
Of narrow-minded people on the narrow-minded streets

Ubud Part (ii) - SPA!!

So, i was saying that the best part about Ubud is the spa.

My colleague introduced us to this SUPER attas place, the Uma Ubud... and I had like a three hour spa there.. paid like two hundred sing but it's worth every single cent.. let me show you around before i get to the spa bit..

(got the pictures from various sites, other than the ones i took myself)

when you walk in, the first thing that catches your eye is the swimming pool,




So the best thing about this resort was the incredible amount of space and plants it has around.. super relaxing. and these plants were natural, like a garden, but not like wild and all over the place like unkempt.. so it's a pleasant cross between a garden and nature.




contented sigh.



so you go from place to place on these tiled floors, flanked by well groomed plants..



as with the resort i was stayin at, the places here were also individual lodgings.. except that it was like two hundred USD a night i think.. gulp.

sigh.

And, so we were walking through all these places till we reach the spa, which is a part of a resort ...



and they had such LOVELY KOI!! (yes yes, i stand corrected.. is KOI not COI..)



do u know that some people actually install like thermostats in their outdoor pools to keep the temperature of the water optimal for KOI growth.. and i dont even sleep in air con room lorh.. but having said that, these KOI are lovely..



even the plants by the pool are lovely.



so at the counter,



we had to choose what we want.. which was all really pretty foreign to me.. i look very xiao jie but i dont really pamper myself.. i havent gone for a facial in my entire 25 years can.. heh. in the end we settled for the Javanese Royal Lulur Bath - which was some beauty routine that the Javanese queens used to go for..



so after we made up our minds, we had to go down this passage way...



and down to the place where we get ready for the spa.. but we got really distracted along the way, cuz everything was so pretty..



and because u can trust me to take spastic pictures of myself.. hahha



So anyhows.. this Lulur bath thingy, and I quote, "Lulur is a beauty ritual from the Royal Palaces of Central Java . This gentle exfoliating treatment begins with a Traditional Massage. A body scrub with aromatic mixed spices precedes the application of cooling yogurt and a relaxing flower filled bath. This treatment concludes with a soothing application of body lotion".

Whatever it is, is super shiok.. and this is what actually happened.. i took the picture of the internet since i cant possibly take a picture whilst going thru spa right..



I didnt realize it could be so shiok to have yogurt on u..

so after three hours, we emerged from this place.. suitably relaxed..




I strongly recommend this place for honeymoon!! Must go for the spa!

Shrimp Running on a Treadmill

This is real farnee! No need to adjust your volume cuz this thing plays without sound. At one point in time, the camera zooms on the shrimp, not unlike an olympic runner making his dash at the 400 m sprint. hahaa.. Apparently, there was this scientific experiment conducted on shrimps, and this tread mill thingy actually improves the shrimp's overall well being. (I think it would also make the shrimp taste better)

On the subject of treadmills, I should be ashamed. I am paying for a gym membership across my office but I think I can count with all my fingers and toes, the number of times I have gone in the last year. Tis' most terrible I must say, wasting money like pouring good soup down the sink. But yes, the times I went to the gym, I fell off the treadmill before. Hurhurhur. If enough people ask, I will blog about that!

My brother!! must be one of the most disciplined persons I know, he trains like everyday. Some days he trains twice a day! He is an amazing young man (and I must also add, very handsome).

I wonder if athletic genes are recessive, since I apparently do not share his athletic finesse? I wonder what I would look like if I was training like him? Well, whatever. I just ordered pizza!