Taipei 2008

I’M BACK! it was an awesome trip for the reasons:

1. i saw my hunk (i walked past RUAN JING TIAN!!! be very jealous. but okay, i was too stunned to take photo. but we made eye contact =p =p =p)

2. i bought the bag i wanted at 200NT i.e. S$10

3. i bought 2 pairs of shoes (also on my agenda)

4. i bought 4 dresses, 1 pair of shorts, 1 scarf, 1 top… each below S$30

5. WE ATE ALOT! by alot i really mean alot. when you have a group of 11 with 5 guys among’em, we buy alot and share alot too

Day1
we touched down at songshan airport. headed to xi men ding where our hotel was. and hunted for dinner around the area. LOTS OF STREET FOOD! shiok to the max. dumplings, sausages, ahchung mee sua, mua chee, cong zhua bing etc. and the boys had innards…. which we don’t rilly dare to try. we were totally satisfied and happy!

 

Day 2
we went to taipei book street i.e. nanyang street opposite taipei main station. AND THATS WHERE I BUMPED INTO RUAN JING TIAN. i am super lucky, thank You God. hahaha. he’s super handsome and cute in real life and i totally got electrified. and the blind me didn’t see him till sam alerted me. but okie… cute la seriously cute.

we bought alot of stationery at super cheap prices. the bookshops there have awesome stationery btw. we moved on to ba li by ferry for lunch at some seafood restaurant and tried the famous peacock mussels which were pretty yummy took photos around the area and our dear mr kang stepped on dog poop, and decided that taiwanese dogs weren’t as cute as they seemed to be ^^

then we went to shop at danshui laojie. bought alot alot of stuff, returned to the hotel to put them before moving to shihlin night market where we had lots of food. i walked till i had backache and my leg muscles were sore – from my calves to my thighs. woahz. thank God for mr kang the pro upper back massager, mr kenji li the lower back master, and dear miss phy for always willingly helping us massage here and there and carry our stuff ! xD

 

Day3
started our day with taipei 101, before moving to wufenpu which got us RILLY bored cos of all the winter clothings pffffff. and then to rao he night market where we ate alot too and i got 2 rilly pretty dresses! hehehehe. we had some time to ktv at night and we went to the uber big partyworld opposite the hotel which was AWESOME!! they have a touchscreen thingy, not like kbox which still uses remote control which is annoying. and their system is totally shiok. not sure about the rates, but the next time we went there in the afternoon it was about S$15-17 for FOUR HOURS. whooohoooo. and if you want to stay there late beyond midnight (not rilly encouraged cos they’re quite messy there with the triads etc) gotta produce documents to prove you’re above 18 okie friends!

 

OKAY! i’m going to bed. update you guys on day4 and day5 again! leaving for hongkong in another day. so i’ll be home with more photos and i can’t wait to spend time with the hockey girls (:

Tata!

<3

thank you my dearest for rushing for the last bus from tampines to come down to my place to accompany the sleepless me. i was reallly really reallyyyy very very touched! and then staying with me till the next evening so that i won’t be home alone. though you almost threw me off the bed when we both fell asleep after our little talk. it’s okay…. i guess it’s just you ^^ teeheehee. LOVE YOU TO THE MAXXXX.

my aunts are super sweet too. one of’em took the trouble of coming down to my house this morning to pass me some liang teh she made for my throat and cough. and another aunt just came by to pass me packets of liang teh to bring for my trip, AND breakfast for tomorrow. they weren’t obligated to do so, though my mum did request for them to look out for me cos my parents are away. i’m just very very blessed. God how can i not love people when i’m so loved by people around me! *sniff

sermon today was timely. i’m glad i went for service though i was struggling in the morning if i should go. God is just amazing. i will be healed in His name!

in about 15 hours’ time i’ll be going to the land of….

(hunk alert is on)

and..

lots of street food which i’m too lazy to googleimage. too many. i’m excited! please pray for me for healing (: thank you very much!

brain food

The way you think creates your attitudes; the way you think shapes your emotions; the way you think governs your behaviour; the way you think deeply influences your immune system and vulnerability to illness. Everything about you flows out of the way you think.

I believe this is one of those cases where we are simply coming to confirm what the writers of the Scripture knew quite clearly all along. Paul said, “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds.”

Jesus once said that a good tree cannot produce bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot produce good fruit. He was making this observation in terms of the connection between our inward condition and outward behaviour. Over the long haul, good thinking – accurate perceptions, healthy emotions, wholesome desires, honorable intentions – cannot produce bad results; bad thinking cannot produce good results.

The second law might be called the law of exposure: Your mind will think most about what it is most exposed to. What repeatedly enters your mind occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become. The law of exposure is as inviolable as the law of gravity. No one is rurprised by the law of gravity. No one says, “Hey, I dropped this priceless antique crystal vase on cement and it broke. What are the odds of that?” But amazingly enough, people react to the law of exposure in total shock. People are surprised that what their minds are constantly exposed to, attend to, and dwell on evenutally comes out in how they feel and what they do.

Children are exposed to thousands of acts of violence and murder on television and even more graphic forms in movies. They see it on video games and observe symbols and images associated with gang violence glorified in pop culture – then we act surprised when a fight breaks out in the bleachers at a football game, or when shootings at Columbine High School devastate an entire nation. The true is, we simply lack the national will and self-restraint to create a society that will produce minds that are not saturated with violence from the cradle on.

We are flooded with sexual images on television screens, computer terminals, magazine covers, and multiplex movie marquees. Sexually explicit images and emails are sent not just to teenagers, but to children who have virtually no chance to protect themselves from what they do not even know they are getting into – and then we profess to be shocked when promiscuity and sexual addiction levels go up and marital fidelity and stability go down.

It is amazing to me how often people think or live as if they could get away with violating the law of exposure. People will say, “I can read this material, watch these images, or listen to these twisted words – but it doesn’t really affect me. I’m not really paying attention. It goes in one ear and out the other.” Social scientists are coming to realise what writers of Scripture knew all along: Oh no, it doesn’t!

If enough teenage girls look at enough magazine covers featuring enough models who are paid outrageous sums of money to make themselves unnaturally thin and then interviewed and quoted as the experts on what makes life worth living, we will raise a generation of young women whose minds are constantly filled with such thoughts: You’re not thin enough, not pretty enough, not desirable enough to men. Their feelings of self-esteem will plummet. Hope will die. And the behavioural consequences will skyrocket – and it shouldn’t surprise anyone.

The events you attend, the material you read (or don’t), the music you hear, the images you watch, the conversations you hold, the daydreams you entertain – all are shaping your mind and, ultimately, your character and destiny. This is supremely true when it comes to hope.

- John Ortberg

 

Wow. with a capital W. i was reading this particular part of the book when waiting for my porridge to cook (i prepared dinner for myself btw!! and it was yummy. hehe) and it totally blew me away. it struck me at that moment. what have i been feeding my mind with? entertaining negative thoughts? i am a worrier. i worry alot. it gets me panicky. it gets me anxious. and then… i fall sick – with worry, that is. that’s why. you may know why i bolded the first paragraph.

what do you feed your mind and your soul with ? the world is warped, we all know that, just by looking at the things around us. emo music, hollywood culture, the constant rat race to the top… etc. so if you fill yourself with the world, it rots your soul and damages your mind. 

just as how we watch our diet, avoiding transfats, fats, sugar, carbs (whatever.) etc, all the more we should watch what we feed our mind with. your mind decides how you think, which decides how you act, which decides who you become.

that said, optimism and positivity just isn’t enough. that’s just keeping negativity away, it might come back some day. when you keep something away, you need to fill up the now empty space with something else solid, so that nothing can take its place anymore. i’m glad i found Jesus.

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Day1 after As

dennis; says:
ya well i wouldn’t mind other courses

dennis; says:
but i hate second best

i very much agree with that. why settle for the second best when you can have the best? very brilliantly said dennis. thanks for being my rant rubbish bin almost every other day. from obama to the education system, from federer to arsenal manchester utd, you provide another perspective almost all the time when we’re on such stuff (albeit sometimes you really annoy the chicken feather out of me). one thing: you sure have alot of complaints too. press on! (for lit and for the next two years, have fun serving the nation… teeeheehee)

well i’m chilling and enjoying life to the best of my ability right now (haha) i think it’s also time to start packing my baggages, literally and mentally and spiritually, to get ready for the holidays ahead! it’ll be an awesome time of growing, learning, experiencing, and of course, having fun in the midst of them all. all my notes are strewn all over the floor in my room, and a part of me can’t bear to send’em to the recycle bin. but of course, i have no desire to keep them lest i might want to retake As. its a horror, i won’t retake, however bad i do, i will move on.

now as i look back, i thank God for bringing me to vjc. these 2 years have definitely been exciting, amazing, and i will look back at my jc life with alot of fond memories, gratitude and smiles. not because i have achieved alot in academics or sports (which in fact i haven’t haha), but because these two years are pretty much special to me. intellectually, i’ve grown so much in my capacity to think and to form my opinions about things. physically, i never imagined i could do sports, it was a little beyond me in fact (: spiritually, i am definitely a much taller spiritual giant now, not because i want to boast, but because God has been faithful to me (by stretching me – how did you think i managed to become taller- but i wonder why it didnt translate into my physical self).

the end of As means the end of my college life, and the end of my journey as a victorian. i am proud to be a victorian, really, besides “victorian” sounding much nicer than … of course. well you fill in the blanks. hehe (^^)

Nil Sine Labore.
(Nothing Without Labour)