Thursday, August 24, 2006

i'm so lazy to blog. but just as well. nothing's new in my life.

i love this song!!! hafta thank sam for burning the CD for me =)

"Gratitude"-Nicole Nordeman

Send some rain, would You send some rain?
Cause the earth is dry and needs to drink again
And the sun is high and we are sinking in the shade
Would You send a cloud, thunder long and loud?
Let the sky grow black and send some mercy down
Surely You can see that we are thirsty and afraid
But maybe not, not today
Maybe You'll provide in other ways
And if that's the case . . .
(Chorus)
We'll give thanks to You
With gratitude
For lessons learned in how to thirst for You
How to bless the very sun that warms our face
If You never send us rain

Daily bread, give us daily bread
Bless our bodies, keep our children fed
Fill our cups, then fill them up again tonight
Wrap us up and warm us through
Tucked away beneath our sturdy roofs
Let us slumber safe from danger's view this time
Or maybe not, not today
Maybe You'll provide in other ways
And if that's the case . . .
(Chorus)
We'll give thanks to You
With gratitude
A lesson learned to hunger after You
That a starry sky offers a better view if no roof is overhead
And if we never taste that bread

Oh, the differences that often are between
What we want and what we really need

So grant us peace, Jesus, grant us peace
Move our hearts to hear a single beat
Between alibis and enemies tonight
Or maybe not, not today
Peace might be another world away
And if that's the case . . .
(Chorus)
We'll give thanks to You
With gratitude
For lessons learned in how to trust in You
That we are blessed beyond what we could ever dream
In abundance or in need
And if You never grant us peace

| Thursday, August 24, 2006 |

Friday, August 04, 2006

so many things, so little time. i still have loads n loads of dramas to watch, and apple still has more. she's my video ezy store. haha. but i don't have a hard disk to get the shows from her. assignments and tests are starting to pile up too. suddenly, i've got so many things that i wanna learn n do, and the list doesn't even include h/h chores. i'm beginning to run out of "me" time. used to have sooo much of it despite the stress of sch work and everything, that i cld just stone in front of the comp for the whole day. and now when there's so many things that i need to complete, i can't find the time. pfft.

anyway, we had this really informal debate in class on tues & everyone was just seated facing each other. our topic was euthanasia and whether it should be legalised in australia. ya, this overdebated topic. i had permission to skip the previous lesson, so i didn't even do any research or think of wad i was going to say, and sam came like 2minutes before we started the debate. but he started off anyway, and he always have something to say no matter what. i reckon he'd make a good lawyer bcos that's wad he wants to pursue in uni and he's a good public speaker too. sigh, i wish i had a goal like that as well. so i was after him, and my mind just went blank bcos i didn't prepare anything. but anw, through my stammering and stuttering i managed to cough out something that i think wasn't very appropriate or strong. the worse thing was that i could feel my whole face burning! bcos everyone will be focusing on whoever is speaking, and i think they were too close for comfort. haha. my face must have been extremely red. i bet they were stiffling their giggles, bcos i'm quite sure i didn't say anything funny. i couldn't have been more relieved and cooled when i finally finished my point. but ming was the hilarious one! i'll try to be as exact as possible in recalling wad he said...it goes something like this:"i think your parents should make the decision, bcos your mother born you right? and before she born you, you cannot do anything!!! you are like a piece of paper!! so when u die, she can decide." o-m-g. LOL. everyone was laughing like mad!!! the funniest was his HK accent. i think someone even made the comment, "you mean ur parents have the right to kill you?" haha. it was a really funny debate. after that we were discussing whether studying abroad did us more harm than good, and lyn was asking everyone if they think they changed. sim said "our weight changed!" which is so true! haha. and i told her how my mom said my face looks square now, but lyn said i'm still tiny. yeah, as compared to many of the locals. lol.

i really really screwed up for my accounting assignment this time. it was open book! they're so 'jian', bcos its open book, they make it even harder, so having our books around was as good as not being able to refer to it. well, i gotta rely on the closed book test on monday then. hope its more manageable. i dread assignments!!! this IS assignment really makes me seem like a computer idiot. but i checked my rank just this afternoon, not too bad. no one would have believed i'm a real computer idiot in disguise. hahah.

i'm missing home so much. and the people too. it still gets to me, and distracts me during lessons. i can't wait for this 3 1/2 mths to be over. singapore's birthday is coming soon too. oh my, its like i'm missing out on so many things. friend's birthday, family gatherings, not to mention at my uncle's new penthouse and my aunt's new apartment that has been featured on tv. i really envy them. and my baby cousin is growing up so quickly. hope he'll be very very healthy and not hate the greens like his siblings. lol. =) i miss everything.

| Friday, August 04, 2006 |