Honda Civic Choir

小胖妞

This is so cute... disturbingly emo and bloody though.

Light of Gold Lux Aurumque

The power of imagination, and the effort to pull off a dream.

Edward Esch's Light of Gold

Light,

Warm and heavy as pure gold

and the angels sing softly

to the new-born baby.

Lux Aurumque (trans. in Latin by Charles Anthony Silvestri)
Lux
Calida gravisque
Pura velut aurum
Et canunt angeli
Mollitermodo natum.

My Bucket / Dream List

Since sleep does not seem to be coming soon, I shall think of stuff that I want to do. In no particular order or any importance embedded, subject to changes while living:

1. Learn to speak Cantonese. ( I want to be able to communicate fully with my grandparents!)

2. Learn to drive. (So helpful during CNY)

3. Learn to speak Japanese. (So I can finally understand those funny variety shows.)

4. Learn to speak Malay. (So I can finally understand my students.)

5. Learn to speak Indonesian. (I want to go back to Medan!)

6. Meet the right guy, get married and have two kids. (This one needs an order)

7. Teach English in a foreign land, and do missionary outreach.

8. Get a driving license.

9. Get a double bass performance diploma.

10. Buy a piano and get a piano performance diploma.

11. Bring new people to Christ every week.

12. Share the gospel with someone new every week.

13. Bring God's miraculous healing to people.

14. Organise my books.

15. Organise my clothes.

16. See Dad accept Christ, the whole family passionate for God.

17. See the bad debts fully paid up.

18. Get a music degree.

19. Get a bass amp and learn to play the electric bass,

20. Backpack to Jiuzaigou.

21. Hear the voice of God, literally.

22. Learn to use Skype.

23. Learn sweep-oar rowing.

24. Decorate my own home.

25. Take nicer photos

26. Have my own G12 group of leaders.

27. Get better at ironing.

28. Wash the windows.

29. See one of my songs used in church to praise and worship God.

30. Orchestrate one of my songs.

31. Bungee Jump

32. Tread water

By the grace of God, I pray and hope to be able to fulfil these soon if not now.

What is YOUR bucket list?

Warning! Do not drink this at 11pm!

One would think that University would have made me a more informed person, or at least teach me the value of drinking coffee for late night studying. Unfortunately, I applied the value at the wrong time and now am insomniac when I REALLY need to sleep. When morning comes, things should be rather interesting... for my friends.

I have been crafting

Counting down 5 days before I leave the school for teachers' college! There's not enough time to make one for all the people I want to thank, motivate, encourage... basically leave a momento behind.

Gratefulness

So pleasing to see young earnest pondering minds.

Oxymoron; the handwritten email

Another brilliant find from Scription

Call me old fashion but nothings beats sincerity than a good effort in penmanship. The effort and discipline to train one's handwriting conveys more sincerity than a shallow effort to send a 'personal touch' through a computer mediated communication.

Bachelor

I really do not realise how much I tower over most people until I see pictures of myself with others.

A wild goose chase

A wild goose chase around Singapore, including a live band performances by 40DOF youths and the last video instalment of the "You Can" series - "You Can Dream".

Date: 10 Sep 2010

Venue: Start point at Bukit Merah Central

Time: 12pm

Ages: Teenagers

Registration fee: $8 (A T-shirt will be given to each participants)

Register by contacting me.

Relief Class

This is a great show to talk about history! Fighting Spiders is about growing up in Singapore during the 1960s. My relief classes never fail to be riveted. They get pretty bored when the plot focuses on the parent and child relationships, but the funny moments capturing the boys' playing antics are always the most popular.

When I tell them that the things they saw in the show really did happened, and bring their attention to the use of water basins (Sanitation system, water rationing), sitting on the road (Entrepreneurship), triads (Colonial governance, youth crimes, syndicates), and even the food the boys eat with their families (meritocracy), the students' eyes grow bigger! LOL! I love young minds.