Friday, 4 January 2008
Environmentalist Blogged:19:23
It was fun-er than expected... though it ended really late....Anyways, I teamed up with only Gerald for the whole cooking lesson thingy, though there were ideally supposed to be a 4-man group. Pros: We get to eat MORE!!! :) Con: We have to work MORE!!! :(First. there was this napkin folding excercise. McDonalds (such a stupid name... did he give the name to himself?!?!?) was in charge of this part of the lesson. Rather ok but it made us look like waiter undergraduates. NEWSFLASH: I don't usually serve, I AM served!!! lol, jst jkingThen, there was this Thai chef who thought as fruit carving: he made us do a rose (tomato skin), leaves (pear & carrot). He made many jokes during the lesson which NO ONE could understand... seriously... but I don't blame him, after all English isn't his first language. Gerald & I obviously slaked. We only made 1 rose, 3 carrots and 2 pears... :PThen the most exciting yet stressful part came, when we had to cook our own lunch!!! I mean, if we screwed this up, then we would have to go hungry..:( (and I usually get cranky when I'm hungry)Anyways, the recipe for the day was chicken, mash potato, Thai-style 'popiah', and some syrup for the ice cream.So we started chopping all the spices... actualy it was mostly done by Gerald to be exact. But no matter how hard he tried, he could not chop them down to a small enough size... But my job was worse... I HAD TO MASSAGE (YES, M-A-S-S-A-G-E) THE FREAKING DEAD CHICKEN WITH SOY SAUCE AND STUFF!!!!!!!! OMG!!!!! XOXOXOXOXOXO *screaming my lungs out!* It was sooooooo grossssss.... and pervertic too.... And the chicken was sooooo cold that my hands were FREEZING! Brrrr!Then we did the syrup thingy by randomly tossing the ingredients into the boiling water and waiting for it to crytallise. Meanwhile, we did the 'popiah' by cutting all the vegies into matchsticks and arranging them onto the 'popiah' skin. It tasted HORRIBLE by the way!LAstly, we had mash potatoes. Gerald kept adding sugar to the mash potato while I kept adding pepper. So what do you get when you put a sugar-addict and a pepper-addict together? Not PowerPuff Girls but really tasty mash potatoes!!! :) And of course the most enjoyable part was the eating where we (moi & Gerald) had the privilege of devouring a 4-servings meal!!! Yummy Yum Yum!!! P.S. Lemon grass drink tastes OK but smells like LEMON SHAMPOO! Major ewww... XP
Environmentalist Blogged:18:31
Monday, 31 December 2007
CIAO 2007
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HUL-LO 2008 *a grin like the chesire cat*
Environmentalist Blogged:23:48
Sunday, 30 December 2007
Hola everyone out there! Sry for not blogging regularly and to Jonathan & other 07V11s, sry for not being able to attend Jon's farewell party... :( Anyways, hope you guys had fun, fun, and even more fun. I wasn't able to go because I was really really busy this last few weeks of Dec.Firstly, I had to help in the church musical thingy. My lighting part was very last-minute-ish cause we could only use the practise on the actual location for only a few rehearsals. It was really frightening at first because we still could not get the lighting right even on the day just before the actual performance. But in the end, every thing turned out (near) perfect. Yipee! Glory to God!Secondly, there's this church youth camp from the 27th to the 29th of Dec. And I was part of the planning committee. Anyways, the camp was fairly successful and I truly learnt alot about God from the camp. The reason why I couldn't go for Jon's farewell party was because we had a barbecue on that night and also that I had to help lead the worship session that evening.Anyways, the inconvenience in rehearsing the musical and the camp surprisingly had brought me much closer to God. I had to admit that I had drifted away from God in the last few months but the first motivation to come back to Him was when I experienced dissensions and arguments about how the musical should be run. Me & other backstage crew had to come like from 3pm to 10pm on Fri and from 10am to 10pm on Sat to practise. Added on to the stress of helping to clean up the house for our extended family-gathering thing, it was really a busy period for me. But this probelm gave me a chance to pray for God and ask for strength to carry on and when the musical turned out extremely well, I felt that God was indeed with me throughout my troubles. Then came the camp where, with my newfound faith, I learnt even more about how God loves us and will take care of us if we are willing to let 'Jesus, Take My Our Wheel' (that's our camp title btw, lol). Especially during the sharing session at the end of the camp where tears were brimming my eyes when everyone shared their experience with God to encourage one another. It was a really touching moment for many of the youths and teenagers there and I'm actually glad that I cried because it proved that the Holy Spirit was with me. So all of these were very timely which helped me strengthened my faith in God!!!! Praise the Lord!!! Yipeee!I believe that now I'm a more sensitive Christian and that God has put me through these struggles to test my faith. And I'm really glad that I've succeeded... xDThus I pray for all other Christians out there to come unto the Lord and to be able to continuously encounter God to affirm his presence in all of us.From a hymn: The Steadfast Love of the Lord
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases
His mercies never come to an end
They are new every morning
New every morning
Great is thy faithfulness O Lord
Great is thy faithfulness
And to all non-Christians out there, God loves you, no matter who you are or what you are, really really really much, and the chance for Him to guide your life will always be available as long as you believe and are willing to let him Take Your Wheel... :)
Environmentalist Blogged:15:42
