.freestyling.

hi everyone. tmrw's the big day! 400m free.
since there's no coverage of the heats,
watch the finals at 6pm on channel 5! get the pompoms and the cheerleader skirts ready:)

ps: rach! helloo!! you sound, stress-free unangsty and happy! when are we going coos-ing again?heh

GO, LU!!!

.....omg!!! LU GOT THIRD!!!!! AND HE DID A PB!!!! (personal best...you know swimmers.. we have so much chlorine in our brains that we have to abbreviate everything.....)
heehee i think i am the fastest to get this news. singapore really sucks! i remember in 1999, they televised every single swimming final LIVE. and it was my number one excuse to stop studying for my stupid primary five exams. haha.
so yes, how did i get this news?
did my pet pigeon fly all the way from los banos, laguna?
or am i having a secret affair with the channel newsasia cameraman assigned to the games?
heeheehee.
nah, the answer lies in: the aunty jane messaging system!
aunty jane aka lu's bu (omg it rhymes! they are meant to be! *bimbo squeal*) and my mother are homies, just like lu and me.
so after (sucky) singapore stopped televising the finals, my mum immediately reached for her handphone and began smsing aunty jane in a frenzy.

YAY FOR LU!
and yay for God!!!
i think....he owes us all a treat! we have been cheering so feverishly in our hearts...our minds...our tagboards....closer friendships have been forged (e.g. i called leo so we could rant about the incapability of the media)....

on another note,
tao li won the 200m back and bern got 4th. defending champion chonlathorn (who has won 100 & 200 back for the past three sea games) was probably placed somewhere in between
which is sad, because she trained with apsc for a while a very long time ago and she was very sweet (and skinny!!)

ANYWAY.
singapore's been doing quite well in the pool, far better than i can say of the singapore cubs lions (meow meow)
so keep it up! and we'll all still be "cheering so feverishly in our hearts...our minds...our tagboards...." haha i just copied and pasted that line. man i am so lazy.

okay now the next thing i should do is to tell you that lu has 200im tmrw!
this is not really his pet event but who cares!
we, his loyal fans, want the best for him, dont we?
so let's pray and hope that he kicks ass tmrw! but not too much, because.. his 400m free on thurs is gonna be absolutely explosive (*bang!bang!bang!* ahahhahaha)

OKAY AND THIS IS ANOTHER LIVE UPDATE!
the 4x200m men's free relay (which lu wasnt a part of but marcus was!) BROKE THE SEA GAMES RECORD!!!
oh boy how cool is thaaaatzzzzzz
that brings our medal tally to 4 golds 1 silver and 2 bronzes tonight!!
majulah, singapore. (no i am not being sarcastic as unpatriotic as i am)


errps. in order to appear like i have a very existent life:
i think i have to go now. i have so many things to attend to i even forget to breathe!


till tomorrow, my new-found friends/ fans!=p keep praying!

the eve

hi everyone! this is lise. uhm, lu's substitute blogger!
sorry i havent blogged for the past 4 days..it's just that it's LU's blog and i havent been in contact with him!! sucks right! i bet he forgot to bring his charger or smth....cos leo msged him twice and he didnt get a reply.
unless of course, manila has some handphone negligence virus.
heehee.

ANYWAY the most important thing in this entry is.....
tmrw lu's swimming 400IM!!!
for the benefit of rhythm and tian, lu's very faithful readers who i doubt are swimmers...
IM = individual medley.
no, you dont sing while you're swimming.
it's just a combination of all the four strokes- fly back breast free
very lethal...i always die halfway through the second lap
since it's 400m, which is 8 laps. lu will have to swim 2 laps of each stroke...i know...that boy is crazy!!
his stamina!!
and if you watch him swim....you'll see that he can just keep going and going and going and going...
like a blonde engergizer bunny
the last lap when everyone is pretty much just trying to magic the touchboard closer to them, you see lu suddenly deciding to give his legs a bit of a workout...and he will chiong to the wall.
veryy cool.
haha.
gives me an inferiority complex, really.
oh well im rambling again!

anyway...since lu is in manila and has no access to an internet...i can have a bit of fun here....
I AM LISTENING TO ANN KOK'S ALBUM FROM LIKE, 1998. IT IS SO GOOD!!!
GO BUY IT!!!!!!! im sure it will be in the half-price rack now cos it's so super outdated vintage.....
ann > fann!!!!
nyehehehe.
(he is so gonna kill me. it's almost blasphemous for him because he is a hardcore fann fan! wahah)
do u know....she is not 100% au naturale....too bad i cant tell you more here if not lu will change his password, username and secret question so i can never come back here again...

okay i think it's time for me to get off now! all you visitors keep coming okay because lu gets a "helluva" big kick everytime he sees his stat counter jumping. seriously, he brags to me like he's the new xiaxue...haha.
by the way...do you know there is a xialanxue.blogspot.com wahahaah
there's wit for you!

...please pray for lu okay! that he'll feel good...not get food poisoning...have a hard enough mattress at night...no insects...his goggles will not snap...
actually even though i always make fun of him, he is really a very nice guy. extremely humble!
and he has been training so hard. i truly believe our God is a faithful God and that His will will be done in the next few days..
and i know lu believes this too....just check out his chest...hahaha.
drawing from my limited ac roots (..i only used to train at acsi and acjc..), "to God be the glory"!

apparently i sound very bimbotic when i talk, i hope this doesnt translate into my blogging as well. my excessive punctuations does not mean i am screaming and giggling as i am typing all this.
.. i really am not! im actually quite smart! haha.

okay then im off, please pray for lu!
(since guys have this *ego* thing about asking people to pray for them, im assuming the role. im sure he'll appreciate it- even real men get nervous when they face thai/filipino men in speedos!)
bye all and God bless! i will be back tomorrow (unfortunately or fortunately)

-lise:)

.Locked and Loaded.

..so here i go..thanks to everyone who have been by my side for the past few months in every single way..be it at training, home (love you, bu + dad), church or just friends and passerbys with the encouraging words, sms, calls, emails, handshakes and hugs..really have been so sweet, all of you..oh yah, and fatty(a.k.a. andre teo - www.elittleprince.blogspot.com ) e post was super sweet of you..my flight tomorrow leaves at 9.45am..one final trip for Singapore.

I only want to show God's true glory through my swimming. The rest is up to Him.

..Here i go.

.Brrrrrr.

..damn its cold..Our lion city really does surprise me sometimes..all year round it decides to bake in the sun and then all of a sudden it starts to rain like there's no tomorrow..sheesh..so here i am, in my room with the ceiling fan whirring softly and the raindrops outside pitter-pattering on the leaves of the tree outside, with 2 days before we leave for Manilla, sutffing my face wih macs while i embark on another post to spread some of my thoughts..here goes..
due to overwhelming (not!) response and popular (also not!) demand, i have decided that i better blog about my weekend (although its highly invalid now coz it's already tuesday..) leonard finally came home..with a shirt each for all of us and eyebags the size of 50-cent coins..marc and map went to pick him up from the airport beore meeting me at chomp chomp coz i was at Essential Brew (good stuff, dat place..) with the office guys+yiming..after cornering fatty into telling yiming about what he did in Jon's car after the Sentosa weekend (for more details call lu and he'll tell you wahah), davis, fatty, yiming and i took a rather dramatic drive down to 2x(chomp)..but not before meeting lise+nat+shiyang(lise's new boy-in-her-life) and giving lise a shock when she saw my hair..=P so off we trooped, bounded for 2x(chomp) before davis got lost AND found out he had only 2km left on his petrol tank..as usualy lu saved the day by finding him and a petrol kiosk just in time..(tsk! davis..a whole new BM 3-series and no gas to keep it going..the irony.) we finally made it to chomp chomp and i half-wolfed down wanton mee+you tiao salad (yea i know..healthy eh?), and half-caught up with leo..really missed that ah beng..-grin-
So that was my saturday. Sunday was rather uneventful..had church+lunch with lise and smelly wong..then came home, had a massage and buffet-dinner with the family at Garden hotel..why do people even bother running through their days? its like..some history lesson or something..=P (fatty i hope your happy now..i told EVERYBODY about our dinner together..=>)

..so anyhow, just came home from my medical checkup for my visa next year..-whew- time really flies..there's dinner with e breast fren tonight and a certain someone tmrw..2 more days to departure..9 more days to lu's retirement..(i think.. )



p.s. - To all e unknown readers out there like rhythm and tian whom i don't know personally..thanks so much for tagging and reading my blog..really means alot to me..(now i know how izzy and dawn yang feels..but don't worry, i didn't go for plastic surgery=)..keep reading my blog..and tell your frens about it! -grin-

..lu's out..

-lu

.Wicked!.

..Talk about being ego..tsk lu!

-lu 

.Some New Pictures.

..Dum dee dum dum..

 

.Superb Sunday.

..oh gosh where did e week go? suddenly it's sunday again..woke up this morning at 7am and stumbled into the toilet blurry-eyed and stuffed-nose..cracked a few knuckles, shat and brushed teeth before i lay back in bed again..and e next thing i knew, it was 9:55am.."bloody hell," like lise always says...rushed to take a hot bath and to the car (stuffing two pratas+1 pau into my mouth while at it) and rushed to pick up dearest lise..we made it to church just after e first worship song..-sigh- worship was..lovely, to say the least..lemme do a cover version again of the sermon today..(i think this is what attracts Rhythm, so enjoy, my good fren!)..and as usual, in lu's world, everthing is always interesting because he has SPM - selective photographic memory..here goes..

Sometime ago, a mountaineer was asked this question after he scaled Everest : "Despite all tthe danger and risks involved, why do you still choose to climb mountains?" His answer was simple, as it is true : "Because they are there."

Everything in life requires the 3 essential 'C's - Courage, Care and Commitment. "Ok..so commitment and care are fair enough answers..but what's courage got to do with Christianity..or the mountaineer's answer for that matter?" you might ask. My question is - what is Courage in Christianity to you? To dare to step up when there's alter call? To dare to stand infront of the entire congregation and share a testimonial? To lead a friend in prayer? To play for the 10.30am Sunday Service worship group? To dare sing loudly, albeit out of tune during service?

No.

Courage is the ability to overcome fear. We all fear something in our lives - pain, blood, heights, cockroaches, wives, etc..but ALL of us are born with one common fear - Failure. We are all afraid of being rejected, or losing, or being disadvantaged, that's human nature. But courage is knowing that THAT fear exists, and being able to face it and say,"Piss off!!!!" To dare to take that step across that line, across that mindset and across the comfort zone and see what we can do. Just like the mountaineer, he knew that the mountain was helluva high, and helluva cold and obviously helluva dangerous. But still he climbed it..why? Because he dared to face his fears and at least attempt to overcome them.

How many times, when we pray, do we say,"..and God, please take away this thing that is troubling me.."? Whatever the thing might be - a tough exam, sickness, finance difficulties, etc. Have you ever asked God to take away the problem? I know i did..because i always thought that was the logical thing to do - to ask God to remove the problem so that i wouldn't have to worry about it anymore. But what are we doing here?

We're facing the mountain, and because we're afraid to climb it, we choose to ask him to remove it for us.

My readers..i don't know if that sentence hit you as hard as it did me..but i leave you with a question and a thought..that if a day comes when you are faced with a difficult situation, hopefully it might just help pull you through. "Are problems in life there to be solved or removed?"

"Courage is in seeking God's true glory."

..i'm out..got massage.

-lu

.To The Ah Beng In Marc's, Mine and Lyn's Life...

WELCOME BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

.Ramblings.

..last night's dinner at Michealangelo's with Ann was rather lovely(albeit a little hot. but that could've been due to the heated conversation we were having..serious). The food was good (i'm a sucker for good aglio olio w/o chilli), and although the tables were a little too close for comfort, we didn't mind. I'm sure the other two couples that we sat between were trying hard not to listen to our conversation..until i realised botha us were gesturing wildly trying to make our point. Oh well. I have to admit i do miss talking to that girl..she's always surprising me with some kind of news or another; so much so that now whenever i talk to her, i'm fully prepared for anything..short of "lionel, it's the end of the world, u know? today." and to top it all, she foot-ed the bill..wad more can a simple guy ask from a friend? -grin-
..after 5 hours'+1 bailey's worth of sleep, i was back at the pool. again. training with the team + some ceremony for all the swimmers going to manilla..it was really more of a chance for us to mingle with officials, the press (i'm trying to make it sound ho-hum..am i succeeding?), parents, sponsers and just get to warm up against each other..had a rather meaningful conversation with mr. oon (i hope he doesn't mind me calling him that here too..haha)..realised this guy really is quite nice..despite his post and pay, he's never one to hesitate coming down to talk with the swimmers, even if it's just to give a small word of encouragement and all. like i said 2 days ago..people like him and paul (gym coach for my non-existent gym program..) are the kind of people that make this whole Games' preparation less about the results but more about the lessons learned..
leo's coming back in 2 hours' time..and i gotta go wash up coz i have dinner with the office guys before i meet marc at e airport..can't wait to see leo!!!! haha..i'm out.

p.s. - rhythm, if you aren't a friend sneakily trying to get a laff from my ego, your always welcome here..=) and thanks for the well-wishes.

-lu

.Stolen..again.

Stole this off marc's blog..i love love the picture of john's face..=)

-lu 

.Stop counting down. PLEASE.

..urgh everyone's counting down counting down counting down to Manilla, and it's starting to get me down too..i don't feel ready for it, i feel too tired, i ate too much and i didn't rest enough..(ok fine i'm just whining but just humour me, will y'all?) The team's leaving next thursday, exactly 6 days from tomorrow..die la..suddenly it seems so near..and i was just getting comfortable complaining about how our tapering never seems to be coming..-sigh- oh well..
seems like everyone's starting to making my day their life-duty..hehe..(ok dat sounds ego too but humour me one more time, will you?!) today lyn gave me 2 collages that she rushed in the afternoon (which reminds me, i better go read the letter stuck behind..)..well, the glue were smudgey in some areas, not enough in others..and the pictures weren't exactly plasma-screen quality, and some were cut wrongly and hastily stuck together..but that's what made it so sweet. it wasn't so much how it looked..or how well the pictures were pasted..it was the memories contained in all of the pictures that made the collage(s) so sweet..-grin- i think i've got the sweetest friends..not the best-looking ones or smartest ones, but definitely the sweetest..=P
anyhow, 3 days ago marcc dedicated his latest post to me..in return for my dedicated post to him and map..and the collage (hrmm now come to think of it collages DO seem to be the IN thing this season, huh?) he did was really lovely too..pictures of us ever since the montreal trip when we started to actually utilise our cameras (and he forgot to bring charger..Einstein, that guy.) and again the memories of botha us just being total idi*ts making a fool of ourselves infront of the lenses just came rushing back. Everyone's getting so caught up thinking about medals and results for the games, but i think i already got the best gift anyone could get.

Friendship

ok fine so maybe it sounds damn cliche and some of you probably rolled your eyes and mouthed a "sheesh"..-shrug- call me mr. cliche then..haha..(i wonder what he looks like..i know mr. messy's kinda cute..mr. worry has a nice colour..hrmmmm...)

leo's coming back day after tomorrow!! haha..dat means dinner + presents from him..can't wait to see the ah beng..he did kinda well although he fell sick there..poor chap..nvm lyn will nurse him back to health in no time..and ann's gonna buy me dinner tomorrow AND this weekend the office guys are having a farewell dinner for me (followed by Zouk but i have a self-imposed ban from there till the 6th of Dec.) and then pam's organising an early birthday gathering for herself (haha..so cute la she) and all of us gotta attend so..looks like weekend is packed. (And i'll have more miles on the road than a comfort taxi driver on any given day. )

..tomorrow i'm gonna cut my hair..let's see how that goes. i'm out.

-lu

.The Past Few Days.

This is what i've been up to the past few days..Good luck trying to make out what they are..Time for training..i'm out.

-lu 

.Are We All-Talk?.

...was looking through this morning papers when yesterday's The New Paper (TNP) appeared..the headlines grabbed my attention - something about some crazy (well, i think he must have been crazy) guy who went around hitting random people and later getting subdued by a voluntary cleaner. Talked about it with my dad over b'fast and i realised..it wasn't so much the beating that caught my attention..but what some people said about the cleaner's actions that was really..pissifying.
"..a bully..", "..unecessary violence.." and "..shouldn't have hit him.."?! HELLO??..wake up, people!!..that cleaner there just did what all of you didn't even DARE to do..he stood up for the innocent people who got bullied! You can deny it all you want but..seriously, what is wrong with some of us Singaporeans? How many times have you heard victims of public abuse say,"..everybody just stood around and stared but no one came forward to help.."? This guy..this cleaner actually came forward to help subdue the man, completely disregarding his own safety for the sake of others'. If that still doesn't make any sense to you all - how about considering this.
What if the madman had gone after you? Or he had picked up a weapon like a knife or something and chased you down? And no one did anything except stare and keep quiet while he bashed you? Think i'm exaggerating? Fine, what if the victim was your own mother?

Would you want everyone to just stare?

Singaporeans : This is the kind of character stuff that aren't taught in textbooks or lectures. THIS is what we should be made of. For goodness' sake, stop giving your worthless post-situation analysis unless you did something about it. For me, there were two bullies in that incident. The obvious one was, of course, the madman. The other bullies, were the people who stood around watching the cleaner subdue the man and then turn around and call him names. For those people, i honestly wish you all the best in life; and if one day someone confronts you on Orchard Road, bashes you senseless and leaves you bleeding to death on the floor, no one will bother about you.
..and for the cleaner (kinda forgot his name heh)..he reminded me of one quote from some movie i watched ago..goes something like this :

"What makes a man a real man? Is it his origins? His upbringing? His habits? None. It's his actions - his decision to do what is right, no matter what others' say. A real man doesn't have to always start something, but he will make sure he it is finished. That, is what a man is made up of."

...it's a bloody hot wednesday..urfgh.
-lu

dear lu
this is what your life has looked like the past week! *click*
it's beauutiful lalalala :)

okay im out!
Jesus loves you!
<3 lisa

.stolen.

Stole this collage from pam's blog and made it B&W so that she can't sue me..haha..it's rather sweet..and it has my record so i like it. hehe. (where's lyn when u need her?!) 

.Bittersweet.

..they say the Lord works in mysterious ways..i think he works in e sweetest ways sometimes..thank God for friends like pam..today after training she called marc and told us to come meet her at wheelock coz she wanted to pass me something..apparently she walked across town with 2 HUGE yellow balloons with a star-shaped base, a tiara, a book about Jesus and a furry, pink wand just for me..oh and 'Fruit leather' for both of us..enduring all the curious stares and gasps of surprises..you'd think she'd rather die of embarressment (maybe she did, come to think of it..heh) but no, she waited patiently for us (me & marc) and then told me to close my eyes (even though i had spotted her hiding behind the carpark sign, the balloons bobbing high above her head) and she passed me all e stuff..-sigh-..been awhile since someone gave me SO many things, deprived as it sounds..totally didn't expect it la..haha..but it was really sweet of her..and then 3 of us took pics before sitting down at BK watching marc gobble down a mushroom swiss meal..while we tried to finish a Large cup of Green Tea (-burp-)..oh! and on top of all that, map and i got an extra present from mother nature - 1 freaking itchy mosquito bite each. lovely. Pamela Yeo "Paimi" Pei li - i vote you "sweetest girl of the month". thank you thank you thank you for making my day. =)

oh and to pay you back, here's lyrics to e song that made you cry. to you and marc - love each other forever, willya? -grin-

"Mixtape"

Butch Walker

You say hello, inside I'm screaming I love you

You say goodnight, in my mind

I'm sleeping next to you

You drive away from my car crash of a heart

And I don't know

But you gave me the best mixtape I have

And even all the bad songs ain't so bad

I just wish there was so much more than that

About me and you

You talk to him, and it burns me like the sun

You talk to her, and you say that you feel like he's the one

I talk to me, but you can't hear the pain I feel

You don't know

Cause you gave me the best mixtape I have

And even all the sad songs ain't so sad

I only wish that there was more than that

About me and you

[Bridge]

Oh, don't turn around and say bye again

Yeah it crushes my head when you call me

Your friend and I'm not the same person

From back in the day in the back of the class

That you thought was gay

No I can't find the words cause I lost them

The minute they fell out of my mouth

And it's love and I'm in it, so give me your lips

And just let me kiss 'em

And let's get messed up and listen to probably...

The best mixtape I have

And even all the bad songs ain't so bad

I just wish there was so much more than that

About me and you

p.s. - thanks one last time, map & marc..you 2 are e sweetest..lu's out.

-lu

Just realised my mommy reads my blog FAITHFULLY! hehe..i think she's my biggest fan. love you, bu! =)
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.NSman.

..there weren't any big "woohoo!" or "..for he's a jolly good fellow.." or "hip hip hooray.."..just the usual handshakes and "congrats." from strangers..and as the admin clerk took me through the procedueres..i half-listened as he pointed to the lines and asked me to read through and "..sign here..here..and here..". And when he finally took out the pink card from a small safe, along with a cert. of service..something jumped inside me..but not like an ecstatic feeling waiting to erupt, more like an anti-climax feeling..like i waited for 2 years for this moment and suddenly it was over..

wow. so now i'm a civillian. an nsMEN..no more nsF.

...then came the pats on the backs, the smiles from colleagues as i walked into my office to say bye..the usual "wah KNN u ord already?! n*bei.." and "oh sh*t dude! now ur a bloody civillian!.." and xihui n alex did their usual "aiyoh so sad..i still remember the first day u came..haha..u were still bald and u carried the big Arena bag.." the heartstrings were tugged..and the familliar faces were bittersweet for me..even sze failed to make me miserable one last time by tokking about my status n her life..and when i finally got out of the building and back into the car, leaving the place for one last time..i waved to the MP standing at the side of the road, his rifle slung on his neck as he looked aimlessly infront of him..i couldn't help but feel relieved..dat i finally didn't have to live under military rule (to a certain extent..) or serve under its law..but to say i couldn't bear to leave the place would be a lie..for i could..especially when my head was throbbing from the heat..and somethig in me just wanted to put as much distance from the place as i could and as quickly as possible..maybe it was really just e headache..or maybe it was me preparing so much for it the moment just didn't live up to my expectations..but wadeva it is..i went to collect my i/c..and my freedom.

..and i finally got it.

-PTE (NS) Lionel Lee

.happy.

..well..i finally have enough time to sit down and actually type something..so much things i wanna say..but duno where to start..hrmmm..-lu scratches head and pause..- my day was niceee..always love sundays because they feel so therapeutic especially with massage+long sleeps..couple that with church+lunch with lise always = to satisfied and fufilling day..oh wait before i go on..THANKS LISE FOR DINNER ON FRIDAY!!! haha..must holler out to her coz she complains i never ever thank her for it..she's wonderful girl..
anyhow..sermon today was really nice..until some grumpy lady told me to stop shaking my legs (loudly) and spoilt my mood..but anyhow the speaker sed some really **impact-ful** stuff..lemme try to do a cover version...-ahem ahem-

All human being seek the truth. it's in our nature..we always want to know why, how and if possible who was involved and when something happened..that's why science exists..and to a large extent, it is for the benefit of our species..thus the creation of medicine, technology, etc..but when we cannot explain something..science steps in and classifies these things as 'supernatural', 'miracles', 'x-files'..wadeva. We then become weary, afraid, sad and frustrated of these things that we cannot explain..think about this : have you ever asked yourself "why me?" or "why should it happen to them?" if we look around..there are many things that don't follow logic..or trends..for example, why do some God-fearing, staunch Christian parents have children who die of cancer at 4 years' old? why do missionaries get killed or fall sick and die in countries they go to to try and save? why do innocent people who attend a wedding in Iraq get killed by a suicide bomber? why do some children who study day after day after day still fail their 'O's or 'A's?..(on a lighter note..stuff like "why doesn't lu ever EVER kick when he swims?" why can't one seem to find the right answers to the question during a radio show?) people often like to say that "what goes around comes around."..i like to believe that too..especially so because it helps to keep me in check..but if that was true, why did the mazda saleswoman have to die?..she was working overtime and holding two jobs at a time so that she could earn enough money for her parents to retire..did she deserve to die? probably not..so why then? why did God have to take her away from the ones that she loved and was loved by? why did God have to choose people who have the hardest background to deal such cruel fate?

the answer is - i don't know.

if u had rolled your eyes after the last line and thought u just wasted ten mintues reading a bunch of crap, you still havent got it. there is no answer for everything. i don't know everything, and i don't pretend to. no one knows everything. "..the older i get, the more i learn about how little i know.." that's what e speaker said..but it doesn't mean that we should force ourselves to accept the fact that we don't know why it happened. it's not easy, especially if u lose somebody close..but e thing is..we should never get frustrated just because we have no answers..because, dear readers..e answer we seek is not "why" it happened..

because Faith is believing in what you cannot see

God is there..He's there when you don't need him, and He's there when you do. He's always going to be the King of kings..HE is "why" everything happens, and He will make sure everything will be alright. if u go away from my blog today taking with u only one thing, take this with you..

"Hold true to what you believe in..and He will make everything right."

....i dunno if y'all know what i was trying to say..but if you do, just tag and tell me, ok? coz i tot that made a whole lotta sense to me this morning..and for e record, my deepest sympathy to the mazda saleswoman's family..i'm so sorry your daughter had to go..but if you just believe that she's in a better place and that you didn't deserve this fate..that God is opening something for you to see..maybe it'll help with the pain..

i gotta run for dinner now..mommy+dad are treating me for my NR..thank God for that..lu's out..

-lu

.Helluva Good Week.

..this week has been lovely, wad can i say..on thursday i got my downgrade confirmed, on tues met e two 'j's whom i havent seen for ages..yesterday i ORD-ed..on friday night met the breat friend..yesterday i finally got the record..and tomorrow i'm going to collect my I/C..on top of that, everyone's coming back from aussie..hehe..so wonderfully complete..but somehow still feeling very empty..hrmm maybe it's not going to church yet..oh well in a few hours' time i'll be, so hopefully something "fills" up..which reminds me, promised lise i'd be down early..it's our favorite worship leader today!! heh..i'm out..

p.s. - ann!!!! your back!!! where's my lunchhhhh? =)


-lu

.周杰倫 - 髮如雪. (it means hair like snow hehe)

作曲：周杰倫
填詞：方文山
編曲：林邁可

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狼牙月　伊人憔悴　
我舉杯　飲盡了風雪　
是誰打翻前世櫃　
惹塵埃是非　

緣字訣　幾番輪迴　
你鎖眉　哭紅顏喚不回　
縱然青史已經成灰　我愛不滅　

繁華如三千東流水　
我只取一瓢愛了解　
只戀你化身的蝶

＃你髮如雪　淒美了離別　
我焚香感動了誰　邀明月　
讓回憶皎潔　愛在月光下完美　

你髮如雪　紛飛了眼淚　
我等待蒼老了誰　
紅塵醉　微醺的歲月　
我用無悔　刻永世愛你的碑

Repeat＃

＠啦兒啦　啦兒啦　啦兒啦兒啦　
啦兒啦　啦兒啦　啦兒啦兒啦　
銅鏡映無邪　紮馬尾　
你若撒野　
今生我把酒奉陪

Repeat ＠

Lu's current #1 song..it's super sweet la! as usual another bittersweet song by Jay chou, maybe..but i like the way his voice stands out in the earlier part..sucram likes it too..hehe..but he can't post the chinese words on his blog so i shall do it for him..got a time trial this afternoon..all e best to me..

p.s. - lise!! post the pictures from last night please..thanks!

-lu

.PES C2N9..PERMANENT!.

..for those who do not have a single idea WTH the title means..doesn't matter. lu is damn damn happy now..haha..i know some of you out there will think "siao ah..liddat also happy.."..but when u chase something for 2 damn years and finally get it at the 11th hour, you'd be excited too..=P anyway, just explained to dearest ann why i'm so happy..

#1 : 10-years reservist just been cut short to 5.
#2 : No need to take IPPT before the 12th of this month. (this Saturday la..)
#3 : No need to explain why i have been stuck in an office even though i have been combat-fit.
#4 : Can finally ORD with ease of mind, knowing that my reservist call-up will be in an office in one of our Lion city's camps..teeheehee
#5 : eh..i still know how to use a rifle and stuff ok..don't you dare call me useless..=P

anyway, just a short update la..the news made me so excited i almost forgot to tell the medic thanks on the phone..hehe..let's all hope he doesn't call back and tell me he was reading off the wrong name..=P leo's gone, anyhow..left this morning with the AIG team..think me and marcc were the most enthusiastic supporters there..hehe..saw a HUGE sign that reminded me of the 2003 SEA Games farewell from Team Singapore..think they set it up to for the SEA Games send-off..oh well, hope leo's having fun..will post the pics once i get them from lyn and whoever else's cameras..lunchtime now..lu's out..-MUCK!-

-lu

.Pictures!!!!!.

 

.Reminisce.

-YAWWWN-..just woke up and decided i better blog now before the day starts to pick up..here's a pic of yesterday's dinner with jon and jeremy at the much talked-about Corduroy & Finch restaurant..will post the rest of the pics after i'm done posting this..anyway, dinner was great..add together great company = lotsa laffs & bickering over the bill & fun fun fun..luckily jonny brot along his spanking new camera..it's a casio exilim, if i'm not wrong..really nice..just that i found out it had anti-shake function only AFTER i took like 10 pictures of the place..and hadta turn off the flash because people started turning around everytime we took a pic..i had a whole bucket of different sausages..and it was really goot..recommendation from the waiter, it was made up of 1 cheese sausage, 1 garlic sausage, 1 fat, white chicken sausage with pigmentation, 1 piece of cured meat that, according to jeremy looks like siew ba, lotsa mashed potato and saurkreut (sp?!)..it was really good until 2 mins ago when i realised someone telling me sometime before what sausages are made of..-uh oh-..think i had like 10 pigs' eyes, tails and ears or something..oh well, it was still good! Anyhow, poor jeremy hadta go back camp before mdnight so we left at 10.30pm..that guy's an officer and he still has to go back!..poor guy..he's going to melbourne to attend MU..-sigh- i miss him!! and jonny too..we gonna catch up soon again, i tell you..

Durex has released its global sex stats. again..some surprising and not-so-surprising results for our dear Lion City..(hey! Lion-EL city! haha!) Singapore ranks 2nd last before Japan in amount of sex the average S'porean engages in..-sigh- and i tot we were becoming more and more sexually active..come to think of it..one can imagine someone in let's say..America or a European country having sex..but to think of a Chinese having sex? hrmmm..maybe it's due to the fact that porn usually feature those ang mohs rather than us chinese..i duno? anyhow, another fact is that Singapore rates RATHER high in amount of unprotected sex..something like right after China or something..HELLOOOOO PEOPLE!! you could do underaged sex, maybe. you could do gay sex, maybe. you could do thressomes, foursome, orgies, maybe. but unprotected sex is (sorry if i sound so conservative or anal sex that's just me.) is just crazy. i mean, if it's with someone your pretty sure is fine like your wife or something, ok do it howeverr you want to. but if you are the type who does ONS, please for goodness' sake get a rubber. even if it means going down to the nearest 7-11 or wadeva to grab a 3-pack (or just get a 12-pack, it's so much easier n u can keep it in case!), DO IT! i know some people are going to "aiyah pls..wad can happen?"..trust me..alot of things..for one, u'd spend day after day stressing when your partner calls back to say,"hey..my period hasn't come this month..do u think it could be...?" the other thing that got me worried was coz i went down to the clinic just last week for a ear infection..and there were pics of STD patients and the affected area..and say wadeva u want to say about those pics, but would u ever want you d*ck to look like a blistered sausage??!?! i don't think sooooo..so yea, lesson of the day : use a bloody condom.

Leo's leaving tomorrow morning..4 of us are going to have lunch at Carl's Jr (mmmmm....) with amanda a.k.a. ah lian..wah, cannot wait..i'm gonna eat b'fast now and get summore sleep..training's been horribly tough and i hate quality sets because my stupid legs start to cramp up whenever we sprint..hurgh..oh oh oh!! and good news - lu's skinfold has gone down AGAIN..haha..from 79.2mm two months ago to 67.9mm last month to 59.7mm yesterday!! woohoohoo!!! haha..means i'm not FAT anymore!! hehe..ok la at least i think its e best news ever..=)

**lu votes 1 vote each for the New subaru forrester commercial and the Mount Sinai Terrace commercial on Class 95fm..funniest sh*t ever..=)

-lu

.Tired Tuesday.

Wah it's finally over..the challenge..was beginning to wonder if the competition was going to last another day..i think the couple that won it are SO sweet! haha..congrats to them, anyway..lu's out..shall tell you about my lovely dinner tmrw, y'all..haha..nite all..

-lu

my tummy..i have no idea where this got taken..but it is kinda cool, huh? =P
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map+marccie+lise in the backseat..
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me hogging like 1/3 of the picture, lise, lyn, marc and half of pam's face..all crammed at the sofa-booth at Gelare at Holland V..
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this is lise wiping sambal off her shirt with lime juice (freshly squeezed) and lotsa tissue..bahaha..and of course me having fun with the camera, for once..=P
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this is, of course is ms. pamela cheah-yeo and your lovely writer lu having a go at each other. =P
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Mmmmmm..i like..
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.Sleepy Sunday.

<--movie of the day..(well, for me it's movie of the week). Not bad at all. Has nicer actions, cars and more perverted-looking bad guys..but john wadeva-his-surname-is a.k.a. The Transporter still manages to drive cool cars, make cute frens (and i mean 'cute' as in really cute-small-boy-way..not cute chick way..)mantain being anti-social without worrying about chicks not looking his way, kick some serious butt and save the day at the end..-sigh-..dat's Hollywood for you, i guess..oh well, just woke up from a 3-hour-long-nap (bahahahah i can hear all the jealous -gasp- and "wad?!"s from y'all..) and feeling HUNGRY..kinda weird after i just had like a super eat-alot weekend..so went with my mommy+daddy to eat at jack's place..Sambal Steak mmmmm..although i can't say much about the horrible service we received though..but the steak+mango cake more than made up for it, in my opinion..so all's well ends well (yes lyn, mr. pudgy at work again)..well back to my eat-alot weekend, today after e mov, me, leo and lyn went down to centrepoint (it still looks like a bloody family shopping centre la, i tell you..) and had wanton mee, porridge blah blah..and then someone mentioned carl's jr...bahah..which resulted in violent reaction from lu's stomach (not the pang sai kinda violent reaction..more like the DESIRE kinda violent) so we all trooped (man, i'm so getting the hang of this word, lise!!) down to marina square in my trustey chariot..and ate till i couldn't eat no more..mmmmm..i know everyone's been raving about it but i must must say the burger is GOOD..S$8.80/- gets you a huge-a*s burger+fries+all the drinks you want..so basically yah, i did my arteries a huge favour today..while poor lise had to sit and stare coz she refused to have any..poor girl..haha..but i must say i'm so proud of her she's losing weight..she's gonna be hot soon and THEN those people hu sed she looked like "a ball" will regret it coz they still look like "a ball" while she doesn't anymore..haha..(ok lise u can pass me the $10 tmrw..hehe)
well saturday was kinda a more rocking day..haha..went for training in the morning and then me+momo+lyn+marc+ting+wati crammed into my car and we went to furama for some workshop in preperation for manila..it was actually quite productive..managed to find out my berms had a stain in the -ahem- crotch area, played word games with lyn+marc, ate dimsum and cakes like there was no tomorrow..and got a story written by all the swimmers..bahah..it's priceless, i tell you..these talks..they should put all the single people in singapore in one of this talks..coz the talk would be so boring people would start finding things to do..and then maybe we might have couples leaving the hall at the end of the talk! haha..so anyhow, after e tok we went to Far east and met leo for lunch at Han's..den shopping for earrings for lyn+leo and walked around to look for nice stuff (oh, and toilet break at Hyatt's..hehe) before we headed to Part world for..karaoke!! hahaha..havent had that for awhile..as usual we sang our jay chous and beegees and bon jovi and dah dah..-sigh- dat's one thing i'm gonna miss in melbourne..oh well stop thinking about wad u cannot control, lu..well then after that we went to chomp chomp for dinner..and met john there..our darling coach, in the flesh..haha..me+lyn should go apply to be tour guides, i tell you..we intro-ed john to that place and now he loves it so much he's willing to wait half an hour for a table! haha..well he was with some friends so we bot him youtiao salad and egg custard dessert and then ran away..hehe..although he did say something really really nice and encouraging..and i hope it comes true..-shrug- oh well after dinner (mee pok dry+fried rice+little bit of sting ray+huge cup of sugar cane) we went to Friends to have a drink..had my double bailey's on the rocks..(pronounced "berries on the locks" by the lovely manager at Tony Romas'..wahahaha)..after which i finally had to go home to charge battery coz i was sooooo tired..
leo's leaving on thursday for bangkok..-sigh- that lucky prick..he's gonna have fun there and then after that come back on the 19th and stop training!! hrmph..not exactly encouraging for people hu have to train all the way to the 22nd..=P oh well i'm sure he'll do well la..going to miss him..(ok dat just sounds wrong) before i go, lemme dedicate a few words to the people at Ngee Ann City doing the subaru Impreza Challenge..keep going, people!!! think about the car, think about the car, think about the car..don't think about the rain, or the pain, or the thirst, or the lack of sleep..or the fact that ur new car will have alot of handprints on it (hehe ok just joking! )..keep going keep going!! may the best hand win! =) i'm out..

-lu

.Finally Got Jay's New CD.

Hello everybody..
Lu's finally got <<十一月的蕭邦>>!!..haha..after training today i "trooped" (as lise would say it) down to the CD shop opposite the pool and finally got my hands on it..after chasing it for a whole day..haha..and they have an offer now - buy the CD for S$18.90/- and get the poster for just $1 more! haha..sounds like Mac's upsize meal..anyway, it sounds pretty good..and there's the <<一路向北>> music video inside too so i think it's kinda worth it..hehe..anyway, i'm starting to sound like an advert already..so going to run off..gotta sleep tmrw's a longggg day..hope everything goes smooth and is fun..=P goodnight all..

-lu

.Ahhhh...

Day 2: Lu finally figured how to get his tagboard up and even personalised it with is own title..haha..eh don't roll your eyes ok..it's really not easy even to get the stupid title up..but thanks to leonard O.P.S. tan..i figured it out..so now i'm CONNECTED to the rest of the world!! haha..i kinda like this thing..its like getting your own place and putting in new furnishing..one nice piece at a time..oh well..just woke up after Zzz and was bored so thought i'd come online and see wad i can do..got training (again) this evening and then meeting Apple girl (miss Zoe Ong) later tonight..-groan- kinda getting tired of this training thing..like Mark said..really can't wait to start tapering..grf..oh well, i can hear lise saying,"c'mon lu!! u can do it! only a few weeks more!!" (you have to raise the pitch of the voice in your head abit more to fully understand this..) yesyes..then after Phillipines i can get on with my life, hopefully..ok just a short one..time for lunch. lu's HUNGRY.

-lu

.My First Post.

Hello everybody..
If you are reading this you probably saw the post on my older blog. No reason for changing my blog, actually..just that i thought since i'm always posting noawadays i might as well have one on my own..i'll go back the luluwithyaqi now and then to post but..guess i like to have this for now. =) anyway, anyone out there knows how to install tagboard..new skins..blah blah?? haha..please teach me!! thanks you..

-lu