Oh my goodness it's finally Friday and it's been an insane week! Haven't had the time to sit down and properly type out on entry. I need to complete 2 assignments next week so really hoping I have the motivation to just sit down and do my work.. Hope everyone's been hanging in there! Seems as though quite a few of us are falling sick but yay, I'm glad I got to bless 2 of my close friends this week with 凉茶 haha!

Anyway, happy happy 19th birthday you 4 hao! I think you were really surprised with our surprise and I know you absolutely love it as much as we loved preparing the board for you! I think that surprise was a good one for you while we were all in the midst of completing Teenvasion! Hipsters love you forever :-)

Really glad Mercy Min's 'Game of Life' went smoothly last Saturday, basically we played a live version of the board game 'Game of Life' and we kind of twisted it to raise the awareness of social issues locally and the role cards people had were certain roles people in Singapore are eg. a blind handicapped man or a high-flying pilot. I think it really got yfers thinking and it's my prayer that they will continue to want to lend a helping hand to those who need it or reach out to those who need to be reached in the community! 

The week has been kinda good I guess, with rough moments here and there like my occasional stress-break-out moments haha but I'm good :) Submitted my form for Cambodia today and guess what, everyone in Hipsters signed up! Wasn't expecting this so I'm really praying that we can all get through the interviews together then we can all go Cambodia together woohoo~~~ I'm looking forward to next Friday because it's finally my last Japanese class and I can't wait to get it over and done with! If I pass that module it's good enough because Japanese is tough to master within mere 6 lessons.. But yups, it's Friday night and I deserve a good break from this laptop so I shall go bond with my TV now goodbye hehe :) 

 1st time on the way home with deals! coincidental meet

and benji too :)

not my beanie/parka but i like my outfit yay me (-:

25 May 2014. The outward declaration of an inward decision. YAY I GOT BAPTISED TODAY WOOHOO~~~ So happy to be part of the 'baptised' club now haha! To be honest, it didn't really hit me that I was gonna be baptised until today itself. True, I have been really excited about it but somehow today I felt like crying like wow, this is really happening haha! Nonetheless, I'm so blessed to be baptised! Thank You so much for everything You have done for me Jesus, for saving me and for resurrecting so that now I can die to self, put the old aside and welcome the new! Being baptised doesn't change much, I still look the same and life still goes on as per normal, but I feel like I want to really start living out the life I ought to live for Christ! I'm gonna be a living testimony now and spread the love of Jesus to everyone around me man yayyy!!

Being baptised in the place I grew up in since young is really a declaration to my fellow church members and I'm so happy for all the support and encouragement I got from my family and friends! Huge thanks to my family members, my aunts and uncles and 2 little cousins came to witness today and I feel really happy my grandma came as well :) To the hipsters, you guys coming all the way from Batok or Punggol to be a part of this memorable day despite having to wake up at an insanely early time on a Sunday morning meant a huge load to me and I really love you guys so so much! (sadly Li Anne couldn't make it but it's okay got video hehe!) James and Gee, really thankful how we're still close even after graduating from PL and now you've made it to my baptism and I guess in a way or another, watched me grow spiritually over the years as well so thanks so much for coming today too! (sadly Li Ann couldn't make it but it's okay got video hehe!) To my (ex) DGLs, you've watched me grow over the years and guided me so much and now I've "graduated" haha! For you guys to come back and witness really touched me as well and I'm so grateful to you Cheryl and Corli in many ways :) Thank you YAH + current DG + yfers + church aunties uncles for the little gifts and wishes, it's really encouraging knowing that I'm loved by this community and that I can count on you all! To my fellow baptismal candidates Sarah/Josh/Lem, we're forever and always gonna have the same baptism date! It's my prayer that each of us will continue to have a heart that hungers for Christ and that we will live our lives in ways that will be pleasing to our God!

Romans 6:4 - Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we should also walk in newness of life. 

Today I've died. Not physically but spiritually. I've died to my old self so that in place, I can have a new life. One where I'll try to live out my life in a way that will be pleasing unto His sight, where I'll show love and compassion to the people around me, where I can really be a living testimony and exude grace and mercy to people! :) No one said being a Christian is easy and as cliche as this sounds, the life of a Christian IS never easy. With all the temptations and distractions of the world, it's easy to stray away and live life the way I want it to be. But I know that whatever flaws and difficulty I have, my God will be there with me every step of the way guiding me in small bits. I'm not a perfect person and I never will be one. However, today is the start of a new life and it's my prayer for myself that from this day on, life WILL be different and I WILL be that difference :)  

It's BCR day tomorrow for IS hip hip hip hip hooray! I've been so caught up with school work and staying back late in school to complete assignments or head for CCA, I'm just so exhausted now. But really thank God there isn't IS class tomorrow! There was supposedly gonna be a 30% test tomorrow and I have yet to study a single bit of Jap for the week :(

I think so far despite the piling school work, I'm rather contented with whatever I'm doing now. Thank God I'm finishing up 2 of my assignments tomorrow and submitting them so it'll be 2 huge burdens off my back! And tomorrow is XJ's birthday! That 4 hao turning 19 but still behaves as though he's 9 sometimes... Oh well! I'm just going to sleep early tonight because I'm tired and I have the feels to watch Grease before I sleep so yup :-)

the monsters are so cute ^^

happy 18th birthday eddy! #edwardoftheday

 ice cream from carousell after jap class last week yay we won ice cream wars

 last friday night

shoot me down but i won't fall cos i'm cheryl

 radio lecture on monday with guest lecturers so cool

the shadow makes me look like a bird like my shirt

Yay thank Jesus it's Friday tomorrow! Finally the week has come to an end and I just can't wait for the weekends to come! Well let me just start by saying how AWESOME GREASE IS! The musical was fantastic and I think I almost teared when the band opened the show! It's one of the best musicals I've watched so far, aside from Wicked. Someday when I get the chance to go to London, I'm gonna watch it again! :) The way the ended the whole show was also really cute, they engaged the audience, got the audience to stand and dance and sing along and yup, I just threw my face away and partied to all the oldies haha!

Hung out with the Hipsters on Sunday and had our sleepover! Yayyy~~~ Had our first tze char dinner together and to think we were just casually talking about it that week and it happened! And wow shocker, XJ cut his hair and we kept staring at him during dinner haha! (I cut my hair also, but no one noticed because it looks the same sigh pie) Watched Scream 3 with them and I really love our sleepovers haha it's so crazy! Sharing 1 whole roasted chicken at 1am in the morning and watching Boon clubbing in the room by himself are some of the things I will never ever forget. Oh wait, and XJ and Boon bullying me before we sleep while Ms Chung and Daryl just lie down laughing away... So excited to have all of us together again ^^ 

Other than that, I guess school has been pretty alright, or not. All the assignments are piling up now and I'm really confused for some projects :( Plus, all the due dates are close to each other so it's just starting to get very stressful. I've gotta to do like a movie analysis on 'Good Night and Good Luck', it's a black and white film (just murder me now.....) and let me tell you, that movie is best watched before you go to bed! The minimum word count is 1.2k words I have no idea how to explain how much agony I have in me right now :( JESUS PLEASE GIVE ME WORDS AND IDEAS OK! On the bright side, today was BCR day and I spent my time exploring NYP and using their library to do work hehe :) Met up with Joe and the best pest Li Ann!! Gosh I miss her so much the last time I saw her was probably sports day in March? So long lah! Really cannot wait to have our birthday celebration together yayy :-) 

 Oh by the way, I can't believe my BAPTISM IS NEXT SUNDAY! It's so fast and I'm really excited for it! Well it won't mean that after going through the waters of baptism I'm gonna be a super duper goodie Christian but I honestly feel that I want to strive to be a better example for my peers after that! It's really gonna be dying to my old self and embracing the new self!

hear your heart ya lame whatever but i like the collars peeking out the pullover so :)

Yoohoo~~~ Week 3 of school finally done! 4 more weeks left till the June hols! Hope school has been fine for everyone! Year 2 really no joke, so many assignments due already and the dates are all really close to one another! But it's ok, everything and anything is possible with the help of Christ! Mind of Christ will surely allow my thoughts to flow through easily!

So many things have happened recently, like I went out with Eunice (+ barkers) to SMU PASTA WOOHOO!!! Really thankful to have had a chance to hang out with her that night and just catch up about school and every other thing hah! :) Met Jia Eenn coincidentally over the weekend at Nex too, and we spent like 1h having an impromptu catch-up session at macs haha! Oh! And I proud to say that now every Wednesday, "I need to go for Stage 52!" Hahaha, it's my new cca that I joined, it's an arts-events cca where you can act or do like production behind-the-scenes stuff!

 we have the same shirt yes hahah so qt

POMPEII KIAS!

Had Jap class again today. It's only been the 2nd lesson and I've already completed 20% of this module. We had a speech assessment, it's kinda easy I guess because you just have to memorise what to say and how to say stuff. The hard part is this word search. We have to memorise japanese vocab and all the characters look the same to me :( It's ok, learning jap may be difficult but SMU PASTA CHEERED ME UP! Actually I'm not really affected by it also hah... But yes I had smu pasta today so my weekend is made :) 4 hao and I also went to find Gofar who was so hard at work, #pompeiipride! He made coffee for us too yay ^^

Gonna catch GREASE tomorrow! ~go grease lightning~ It was one of my favourite musicals growing up and I'm so excited to catch it live tomorrow! Well, guess I better go do some work now.. Life of FMS students, we're forever missing sleep. Goodnight and goodbye xx :)