It’s been a while since I caught some MediaCorp drama serials and felt for once the show characters aren’t that two-dimensional anymore. And this I have to applaud the screenwriters. Our local TV dramas are usually a far cry from the usual you get from Korean or Japanese dramas that have you deciphering a character’s personality, probably because our local dramas are always so simple-minded in many ways. I can’t seem to put a word to describe this, but take the new 7pm blockbuster for an example, 《想握你的手》has story characters that you can just read from their mannerisms in the very first episode. It’s unlike dramas from overseas that portray emotional and mental pictures that have you wondering, because there seem to be multiple facets to that one character in the storyboard.

But anyway, the past 2 days of nursing the flu bug has been pretty mundane for me. Taking medicine is yucky and sleeping only gives me lesser time to work on BD and MMIT. I’ve been watching the first 2 episodes of the new epic drama on Channel 8, 《当我们同在一起》, which happens to cast 戴阳天 as the lead alongside 欧萱! I love his appearance on last year’s epic Little Nonya as compared to《缘之烩》, which I happen to be watching for the second time this week just for 小戴. I think he casts better in those olden day setting dramas than modern ones. And I totally love his fashion sense Yup! Simplicity is beautiful!

It’ll be great if he can work on his English language and then perhaps it may clinch him more roles in the future. I’m looking forward to staying home just to watch my 9pm show every weekday night until January next year. And it’s all because of 小戴! Right now, I’m on the verge of paying 25 bucks to join the DYT official fan club, hahaha. This will probably be a first in my entire couch potato career! The club tee looks pretty cool, something I won’t mind wearing to school. Hoho!

Rwarr.

小戴你真得太可爱了！希望你付出的努力不会白费。要继续加油哦！谁说在日本当模特儿就不能在这演好戏？有上进心是一件好事 现在的生活虽然忙碌，但毕竟也过得很充实啊。反正年轻人也应该出去闯一闯，能闯出一番好事业让父母为你而感到光荣 – 这也不错嘛！我也希望能有自己的一片天空，所以你千万不要放弃哦！好喜欢看到你在电视上呈现的林小杯，比山本洋介更有风格。但你可不要把工作排第一，却忽略了身旁所关心你的家人和朋友们喔。赚钱虽然重要，但是钱不能换取快乐和幸福的！钱是永远都能赚回来的，而爱惜你的人是连金钱也买不回的。努力成为新一代的阿哥吧，小戴！祝你天天快乐，天天都有足够的睡眠，还有天天都能感受到上帝的恩惠和爱待！:)

New Look Singapore has such an amazing spread of shoes – I LIKE! They have size 3 for my pretty little feet! Woooots. I’m gonna head off there to get my party essentials for the upcoming dinner and dance parties in December! I want some funky red heels. And that shimmy-looking dress. Anyone up for shopping in the next 2 days? Shopping is good!

Anyway, yesterday was awesome Malau’s birthday and the bunch of us stayed over at his place after his dinner reception. It was then I found out something about me: I enjoy being driven around, hahaha. Okay, so I guess most women love that but I really, really love to be driven around! Perhaps it’s just the attention, hehe. So bring me all the good men who can also drive, my dear Jesus!

And then there was the whole long weekend buzz over work and piled up assignments – I hadn’t had time to revise for the upcoming term tests yet. Jesus has indeed increased me to do His good work under the ministry’s events team. I’ve been enlarged to do publicity-related work and I guess it’s a good start. Adobe Photoshop is a new friend I’m starting to enjoy being around with. But alongside Jesus, of course. Photoshop without Jesus is crazy insane.

Okay! Tonight’s mundane entry has got to end here. My inner Spirit is prompting me to prepare for tomorrow’s classes and head off to bed after the Chelsea versus Arsenal match. Go Blues! Oh, wait. DROGBA JUST SCORED! GREAT GOAL! AWESOMEEEEE! Wooohoooooo!

Goodnight, world! Cheers to Chelsea!

There was a song that caught my ears while I was watching the latest episode of a TV series and somehow, it became a pretty special song to me. It’s about the amazing emotions you feel when you’re crazily in love with someone. It’s titled “This Is Beautiful” by a musician named Tyrone Wells. A part of the lyric goes like this:

I never could have seen, never could have seen this coming. The most amazing things, they arrive within a moment. I never could have seen, never could have seen this coming on. This is beautiful. Unmistakable. Unforgettable.

Ever felt overwhelmed when you meet someone who sort of… Takes your breath away somehow? I’ve had one or two encounters like that and honestly, you feel like you’re in some dream, some fantasy – a fantastic dream. Which brings me to another track on my current playlist. It’s titled “Sea Breeze”. I kind of like the way the lyric talks about the sea, because I love watching the tides come in. I could sit at the breakwaters at East Coast Park just passing the day away. And I actually take a day off to do that every year (for a couple of years now) on a certain date.  It’ll be great if I can just find someone who relates to me like this song, finding each other just by watching the waves.

But today, I want to share with you another track by the same musician. This one is pretty popular – I think – and it’s called “Wondering Where You Are”. I’ve been having random serious thoughts about my future love for about a week now. And this is really apt. Cheers to all the single men and women out there, well done. Let’s go on preserving ourselves for that someone special, yup. Sometimes you’ll feel lonely but it’ll all boil down to one person – Jesus.

Enjoy.

Yesterday was November 23.

I was too sick to start being emo over Reu. I was too ill to realise that another year had passed without someone to have chicken rice for lunch and talk about anything under the sun with.  I was reluctant to pen an entry about anything and everything. Because I just wanted to leave it as it was.

November 23 was a special day. A day I felt so disoriented, and a day I found out that partings were still never easy for me. I never thought 2 years could fly past so quickly. I guess the pain of the loss is less significant this time round, knowing my awesome big Brother is safe in Jesus’ arms, thinking why on earth am I still being so sad over this when he is singing with joy up in heaven. Oh, folly.

Tonight, I just wanna go someplace far, far away. Away from all the deadlines I have to meet and just lull myself to bed with anointed piano pieces cooing on and on and on…

It’s been a really long while since I wrote about Reuben. There’s nothing to be ashamed about, but somehow I just feel like I’m missing him less and less. One day, I’m afraid I may forget him completely. I won’t, will I?

I won’t. Because a lifetime’s not too long to live as friends.

My God of SO MUCH MORE has set forth restoration in my beloved siblings and family. Nothing beats having loving parents whom Daddy provides to for the sake of providing for His beloved Prince and Princesses here at home. They’re going to be away for more than a week and I’m already missing them right now.

Nothing beats seeing the faith seed of my loving Abba Father being sown into these young hearts. Nothing beats having a Sister turned away from her bad ways and becoming a steady-growing child of God, ready to buy me supper on a night like this. Nothing beats having a Brother inquire impatiently about his Bible being ‘drowned’ in Mommy’s little fountain because of our dogs upon his return from an overseas camp trip. Oh, the sweet taste of restoration and so much more.

The songs ‘Healer’ and ‘With All I Am’ and playing on and on and on and on and on my computer whilst I eagerly wait upon my healing to manifest in my body. It’s no joke to be falling ill at such a period, but you know, Jesus knows and He cares. So I boldly receive my healing that is to come.

It’s so amazing. To feel disorientated today yet be so guided by the Spirit voice leading me every step of the way. It’s the nitty gritty things He tells me, like how the person sitting, dozing right in front of me on the train is going to alight at the next stop so I get to sit and sleep myself. Or the favour I get with store personnel when I went around Yishun doing field research for MMIT today. They just let me take down notes and snap photos all I want – it can only be Jesus.

You hold my world in the palm of Your hands, because You are my Jehovah Adonai, the loving Abba who truly cares. And what a privilege it is to be loved and molded by You.

No, it don’t come easy.
No, it don’t come fast.
Lock me up inside your garden,
Take me to the real side.
There you are in your black dress,
Moving slow to the sadness.
I could watch you dance for hours.
I could take you by my side.
Fire burning me up.
Desire taking me so much higher,
And leaving me…
Fire turning me on.
Desire taking me so much higher,
And leaving me whole.

Cheers to a newfound infatuation. I must be insane. Things stay status quo for now. No time for boys, amen. I want a man. A real man. But they hardly exist in school, bleh.

Off to bed now. Augustana is singing me a lullaby to sleep.

Goodnight, world.

I sing praises to Your name.  Your great Name is worthy to be praised. I give glory to Your name. The Name above all names. For Your Name is great and greatly to be praised, oh God.

This is my 3rd week skipping web publishing. I have a cranky lecturer who sends us weekly emails to remind us to get our tutorials done.

Gee. Speaking of which, I must get BD and the web publishing tutorials done by today.

But in the midst of them, I’m fighting a dilemma: To get an MC or not.  My little sister said I felt like I was running a fever. I suppose the migraine counts, but heck it. Who needs sleep at such a period.

Tonight is the finale night for the Mr and Miss Singapore Polytechnic pageant contest. I’m sure the contestants are all going to enjoy the moments, amen. The one I’m rooting for shall be no short of blessings, amen amen.  I’m going be there right after Napfa. I hope there are few participants so we end early today. Got to be in school by 1600 hours.

Sigh. It’s back to the piled up work now.

Jesus is massaging my shoulders as I sit and type Amen.