it's been a while...

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It's been almost 3 weeks since I've last updated.. so how's everything? I've (finally!) turned 18, just got my provisional license and I'm waiting for law lessons to start on the 17th of February. Apparently classes are all very full and I think I'd have to do a lot of self-studying to do. Apparently if I can pick up the driving lessons well I can take less than 10 lessons. Hopefully I'll get everything done by March, and have my license so that I can start vrooming around Brunei (where else, right?) by then during the short term break. Mm.

Results for both O Level and AS & A Level have just been released from the schools today. I'm retaking my paper so I'll be taking 5 subjects this June and I am not planning to take them again this November except for maybe Maths. I can just see the finance room being fulllllly jampacked tomorrow! Haiya everyone also like this, leave everything until the last minute, haha :p It's cuh-cuh-cuh-crazy! Tomorrow's the start for all the O Level graduates to come to the respective 6th form schools; this is all very fast! Soon we'll be staring into the eyes of new and familiar faces by the end of March.. Chinese girls especially grumbling while they adjust their tudongs and spending long hours during the induction period. Ah, the lovely bells of yore are already ringing.

Back from Singapore like a week ago and I'll let the pictures explain themselves (as they always do) :)

 


I LOVE THE MRT/PUBLIC TRANSPORT SYSTEM IN SINGAPORE.


My firs time having Fish & Co. :) 

 


Swedish models posing for the tshirts that were on sale..
This is Heart of God Church at the SingPost Centre.


Video testimonies that were done brillllliantly. First class, really. 


After the first night


KORG keyboards used for strings, and Roland used for keys/effects :)

Here's a place we all know and love..



Us with the guest speaker for Ignite, Ps Joakim :) he's really cool and he's got moves! 


This is the EZ link card that has gotten me everywhere in Singapore! 


City Harvest Church at The Expo. These pictures are really pale in comparison. Not only is it packed with people, but it is also filled with God's presence, even at the moment you walk in.. It was my 3rd time there and each time I go it gets better :)


One of the best meals I had during my trip was on the last day at Raffles City Shopping Centre. I was with Yvonne and her cousin who brought us there for lunch on Monday.


Continuation of this post, soon :)

For more than a feeling

It's terribly far from feeling like the year 2008. Everything still feels the same, like I'm stuck in rewind or something, and it's not the best feeling in the world. We've (or is it just me) been taught to always live above how we feel, but we are humans, we feel things we don't want to, and they always come at the worst time.

School started on the 2nd (about a week ago) and it seemed as if it was still 2007 and we're just continuing where we left off. I have said this before and apparently I'm not the only one who feels the same way. I wouldn't call these "things" resolutions, but I have made up my mind to do certain things.. and to without certain other things. The last weekend has made me realize a lot of stuff; both good and bad, the bad of course being the latter has more "cause and effect". Derek just turned 18 yesterday, making him an old man! hahaha of course not but yeah you know. I was so excited turning legal and all a few weeks ago when it was still December but right now, I have no idea what to look forward to besides coming home and finishing my homework haha :D Great.

(You give a new meaning to Suitcases & Travel bags)






"However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness."
- Romans 8:9-10

hello there, 2008

1. Was 2007 a good year for you?
Things weren't so great in the beginning, but all seemed to work together anyway. I'm thankful for that.

2. What was your favorite moment(s) of the year?
Serving, getting to know people, coming back to church, having SGs starting late November, visiting the old folks home, quiet times.

3. What was your least favorite moment of the year?
When I had to forsake some friends, when we had to call it the quits, when I realized I was already mature enough, and that I had to face the news.

4. Where were you when 2007 began?
At Rachel's place.

5. Who were you with?
Loads of people - mostly those in Acts 29.

6. Where will you be when 2007 ends?
Well, it's already 2008 - I was at the Huaho Manggis Mall's Ballroom.

7. Who will you be with when 2007 ends?
I was with so many people, especially those close at heart.

8. Did you keep your new years resolution of 2007?
I don't remember if I even made a resolution. I don't think so.

9. Do you have a new years resolution for 2008?
Yeah. A few.

10. Did you make any new friends in 2007?
Yes, a lot since I moved to a new school. I also started talking to people I've never really talked to.

11. Who are your favorite new friends?
There's quite a few :)

12. What was your favorite month of 2007?
September onwards were the months of real change for me.

13. Did you travel outside of Brunei in 2007?
Yeah.
14. How many different countries did you travel to in 2007?
Singapore, Miri. ??? that seems to be it :(

15. Did you lose anybody close to you in 2007?
Yeah. But by the end of the year things changed, and I'm so thankful for that change.

16. What was your favorite movie that you saw in 2007?
Secret (Jay Chou), Enchanted, Just Follow Law, Papaya Sisters (Singaporean movies always do the trick for me)

17. What was your favorite song from 2007?
City Harvest Church - God Of My Forever, Kanye West - Stronger, Corrinne May - Safe in a Crazy World

18. What was your favorite artist from 2007?
Dashboard Confessional, United, Brooke Fraser, Fall Out Boy

19. How many concerts did you see in 2007?
One.

20. Did you have a favorite concert in 2007?
The only one that I went to, I guess :P

21. Did you drink a lot of alcohol in 2007?
Just once and my last before I turn.. fifty. It was a traumatic experience. Bacardi+sprite+greentea+orangejuice no joke okay?

22. Did you do a lot of drugs in 2007?
All the time. ;)

23. Did you do anything you are ashamed of this year?
Yeah.

24. What was the worst lie someone told you in 2007?
It was the worst. And I try not to think about it that much.

25. Did you treat somebody badly in 2007?
Yeah.

26. Did somebody treat you badly in 2007?
More than before.

27. How much money did you spend in 2007?
You really don't want to know.

28. What was your proudest moment of 2007?
Serving. Being there for my mom. Being comfortable in my own skin and for who I am.

29. What was your most embarrassing moment of 2007?
Falling and spraining my ankle outside a restaurant is the only one I can remember now.

30. What time would you go back to in 2007?
To the moments where my friends all started leaving.

31. What are your plans for 2008?
Do well for both June AS and November A Levels as well to always stay strong, always stay in church, and always remember who I'm serving, and to guard my heart.