john is irritating. he purposely send me songs in itunes format so i cannot play it. pissyfying. maybe he's being like that on purpose. john i will remember this incident! next time ah. watch out. MUAHAHAHA.

ok whatever. today's sunday. tmr's monday. that means school. its really frustrating. the weekdays pass so slowly while the weekends whizz by like an F-24 raptor plane nearing mach 4. break the darned sound barrier. i think its pretty cool. i mean, you see the plane, and only after a few seconds do you hear the noise emitting from its afterburner. its even cooler in star trek. you only see the Federation soverign class flagship Enterprise AFTER it passes you. cool eh. they travel at like WARP 9. woehoe. anyway, i've got work to do. lots. i know i shouldn't be online, but i cant resist the temptation, especially after a 5-day hiatus. im growing increasingly lazy, not to mention dropping behind in my work. im too lazy to go running already, i fall asleep immediately after coming back from school all the way till dinner time, i eat dinner, play guitar, then go back to sleep again till the next day. plus i dont listen in class. if im not wrong i have a maths test tmr. i dun even know the topic. probably trigo or something.

kor's doing the haka now. noisy. SOMEONE PLEASE TELL HIM ITS NOISY. I IMPLORE YOU. im not saying its not nice, in fact i think its rather cool. to know a wardance. BUT. dont do it at night, when people are trying to watch TV or sleep! ARH. kor i cannot be anymore frank. wahaha. if not i'll punch you in the forehead like rick james did to charlie murphy. UNITY! wahaha.

this week's been pretty filled, going home late lots of times. pretty fun too. thursday and friday i went for sonicfest. i made the mistake of wearing jeans on thursday, felt so much better on friday, with boardshorts. anyway, on saturday, had worship pract, watched the both raj gabriel mannar's, lionel's and mark's baptism, along with some other lah. his new name is gabriel. funky aye. then they went to play dota, went to watch. they wanted me to play, good thing i didn't. would've been thrashed. anyway, on the way to joanna's house, 7 people including junjie squeezed into his car. imagine. two in front and FIVE behind. wahaha. junjie driving, jiejie SLACKING AND RELAXING IN FRONT. unfair. guoliang, gabriel, veen, nat and i squeeze in the back. imagine the cramps. gualiang was curled up on the floor in a ball, veen was sprawled somewhere on the left, nat in the center, and me sitting on raj's lap on the right. killer. i got back aches from trying to keep my head squashed at the top. was crazy la. anyway, joanna's birhtday cake was a pair of BOOBS. how cool is that. wahaha! imagine 'driel's face.

sunday, worship. i guess like mae shaan said, sometimes its really depressing when you see people looking so stone during worship. that, added with lots of technical killers. kept getting volume jumps, messy playing, empty music, times when everyone's just so afraid to play, till matt can hear no one but himself on the drums. so hard to build up. i do pray God will create a sense of want in the youth these days, to create a passion for Him, to thirst and hunger for Him. i heard that lots of youths in FL are being dragged there by their parents. its quite saddening lah. i pray that God will reveal Himself to them, make them see the light. owellz. lunch at sakae was crazy. john driel mikey michy kor and i. endless laughs.






my byte. check out the cool sail number and boat serial number. sin8008. and SZ 18065 J. dig that. rolls off the tongue so nicely hah.


KOR WANTS TO USE THE COM SO I HAVE TO LET HIM. HE IS DOING MY HAIR NOW. SOME SIDE PARTING NONSENSE.

i havent skated in how long. pissyfying, having to do without a board. first off, i dun get to skate. what a no-brainer. next, i have to CYCLE to church everytime i wanna do smth. cycling hasn't been that fun ever since i broke the back brake handle and have yet to replace it. like, cycling without skidding? sian. also, having only the front brake is a killer. cycling down steps'd be so dangerous. buy me a board please. money nonsense. to buy or not to buy? tonelab. should i spend those many notes in my savings ornot. have to make the decision by, end of this month. should i get it? i know i'll like it, but what if the new generation of guitar multi-effects processors come out soon? i'll die right. ah!. take me now. i should go do work. my maths homework. maybe it'd save me from this increasingly frustrating plethora of problems. dilemma. i hate to say it, but somehow i feel comforted when doing maths. especially during tests. i mean, you get to forget everything that's going on for that particular period of time. plus, maths is actually pretty cool. there's nothing stopping you from arriving at the solution unless you're really blur or something. i take delight in doing maths. english too. writing essays. but ever since i've been getting boring teachers who only care about how perfect the structure of your arguementative essay is, i've begun to take a dislike in what could possibly be my favourite subject. its been marred by rigidity, giving absolutely no space whatsoever for any form of creativity or imagination. i HATE people who mark compos looking only at how your introduction is formed, the precise location of your counter-point, and your rebuttals. who cares if your introduction is only 4-5 lines long? as long as it sparks interest in the reader to continue reading, i say its all right, if not really good. the nicest essays don't have to conform to all these nonsense to be deemed one. admitedly, it must have at least a sense of structure etc, but tell me that mine doesn't. if I was the marker, i'd give a higher weightage towards the creativity & maturity of the writer, and to the way he manages to keep readers on the edge of their seats to continue reading, instead of how perfectly formed his counter-point paragraph is, and how his introduction is EXACTLY 8 lines long. its like judging a band at the straits times school of rock by how it lacks a bassist, and not by how perfectly in time, tuned and closely knit the band is, and how the guitarists use their effects moderately, and NOT driving the bloody gain and feedback so high till the harmonics of your notes creates unnecesary feedback even while your playing, creating NOISE, LIKE SOME BANDS WHO GOT IN. not that im insinuating anything. i've long since gotten over it, cause i remember what i first joined for. and i thank and praise Him for bringing me so far, and teaching me so much. anyway, coming back to my point, the way some people look at things is totally absurd. i was tempted to say "coming back to my main substantive". wahaha. hearing too much of the other male teen in the same residence as me practice his speeches. anyway, im rambling. i'd better stop.

sailing tmr. cant wait. though i refuse to use NSC boats. dunnoe if i should use school boat. which means bringing my foils and sail to school. sian. im not going for sonicfest. one, cuz i dun have tickets; two cause i don't feel like getting a 3-day pass when i cant go on saturday and when getting a one-day pass is totally not worht it. anyway josh dusen have anymore tickets, and i dun feel like getting tickets at the gate cause it'd be so expensive. sorry bestie abby. though i feel like going cuz there'll be discount on the albums etc, and i really feel like getting the "God He Reigns" DVD, especially when they say there are guitar workshops and all. im interested to see what i can learn. plus i'll learn more about band dynamics just watching them play. im rambling once more. gotta stop.



i love listening to switchfoot. creates a sense of nostalgia. woo.

my jiejie rocks.

happy early birthday 'driel!

happy belated birthday hair~puller!


hair-puller -> sorry i missed it k. i'll let you pull my hair on sunday. not that me not letting you ever stopped you from doing so, but just this time you can do it without having a guilty conscience later. =)


'driel -> sup homie. how's it going mate. [aussie drawl] sorry 'bout the shingles, met your dad today and he said you'll be going back to school tmr! haha poor thing man. you're gonna get jacked/wedgied/flagpoled/tau-poked when you get back to school. at least that happens in my school. better bring ball-guard and extra underwear in case yours tears. anyway, its been what, a decade? man. that's a long time if u look at it. amubush, swims, stayovers, guitar, drums, jamming, squash, table tennis, not to mention GO-KART. all that nonsense we did together. its been really great, albeit you getting fruit-ier by the minute. its getting pretty bad. from winx club table tennis super powers to the POINTY thing to gay voices and singing. it gets worse. then you get hit by shingles. haha. i'll get u a gibson SG when im rich enough yeah. rich enough to spare about 4K? not that you'd really want it, you'll prolly be more contented with a super extensive drum set with 10+ toms and iron cobra double bass pedals to the funny 3-cymbal high hat to a gazillion crashes and splashes and high-rides. wahaha. one day you'll be the next dave weckl. one day. haha. and i'll be the next stevie ray vaughan. i wish man. haha. anyway, thanks for the fun times in the past, and early thanks for the more funner times we'll have in the future. good times. cheers bro.






now that that's all said and done, the spare tire found my tummy getting a wee bit bigger. sigh. i've decided not to get a tonelab anymore. i'll get an extensive floor unit with analog effects everywhere, connected together to a pedal power adaptor, wah-wah, weeping devil, crybaby and volume pedals, all routed to a ground control pro, extended to a floorboard. i'll have a noise gate, effects loop and the works. prolly cost about anywhere from 5 to 10K; and i'll need a car to transport it in, like those uber pro guitarists. dream on man. how 'bout having at least 15 guitars, ranging from all the high end brands like gibson, fender, line 6 variax, PRS, gretsch and rickenbacker. when i go on gigs i'll have at least 2 main guitars with a backup. im sure. take me now. like jiejie would say, im an INCESSANT PRATTLING BOLLOX. whatever that means.

sailing inter-schools were over some time ago, and i still miss and dream about sailing. not cuz im losing my tan, but i REALLY feel like sailing. for once! anyway pesta sukan is coming up. if i do well it'd be WONDERS for my ranking. im about 65th now, with only 2 out of 6 possible races in the bag. i beat people who have like 4 or 5 or 6. whoah. maybe i SHOULD work hard for sailing. MAYBE. who am i trying to kid man. ohwells.

my God is BIG. STRONG AND MIGHTY. MUAhaha.

i spent the whole day out today, doing CIP thingies. went on some food and heritage race challenge thing with some intellectually disabled people. i totally din look forward to it at first, tot it'd be boring, plus i din know if anyone i knew was going. turned out to be pretty cool, albeit tiring cuz we had to go round s'pore. plus dominic DID go, so i had someone to pair with, so it was pretty funky. we were with two IDs, one was pretty quiet and sullen and din say anything. in fact i din hear a word from him the whole day. the other was really cute, he eats lots and is the toilet king man. heard from the volunteers that he loves to go to the toilet and dilly-dally. but he's really cute and all, always amiable and smiling. its really heartening to see that's he's so happy with his life, in spite of his disability. some of us, including me, are so dissatisfied with ourselves and our lives and go around wanting everything and spending our time fighting, quarelling, being sad and all. we should take a leaf out of their book. a lot of them are really poor thing, yet they're so happy. before we set off, there was loud music blasting and a few of them were dancing to it. its just so heartening and touching to see someone happy with what they have, with what God has given them. we were made perfect in God's eyes, so we shouldn't compare ourselves, nor should we do drastic things to try to better ourselves in our eyes, cuz in God's point of view, we are all WONDERFULLY MADE. only in God's light will everything be shed from us and we all realise that we are all the same after all, beautifully made. food for thought. and something to meditate on.


after the thing, me and 3 others went to eat BK. we sat there for a long time, talking about old times, sharing laughs. we talked about primary schools, laughing at the things that we did last time, looking at how much we've changed over the years. and as all boy's talk goes, most stuff's about girls lah. wahaha. mummy picked me up from expo, went to auntie angie's house to play xbox with darren. cliff and david were there, all so cute and running around. yet the cutest of all it baby deborah, barely 1 and a half months old. so cute! her tiny little fingers, baby soft hair. woo! haha. played kung fu chaos, halo and star wars episode 3.

i miss sailing already.








we were meant to live for so much more. how true.

to God be the glory! hallelujah Lord Jesus indeed You're wonderful and marvelous. =) ask and you shall receive. God is good! i love You Lord! =)


God's good. no disputing that. this thursday and friday was the national inter-schools sailing competition, for the byte B div. i kinda expected to get maybe bout 20 plus. so i made a wager with my teacher in charge that if i got top 10 he'll buy me a new boat. wahaha. sounds impossible right. especially with all the pro sailors around. anyway, 1st day we had 4 races. when 3 races came out i was 11th! amazing. then i screwed my 4th race, and then i knew it was my worst race so i slacked. when 4th race came out, i dropped to 19th. sadded. 8 positions drop is a lot. i was afraid it'd turn out like the earlier regatta i had, 27th in national standard in the 1st day, only to drop 12 positions to 39th in the 2nd. anyway, i went home sad, yet praying hard. we were in front of AC by a close 4 points. still anyone's game. 2nd day came about, was really disappointed the whole day. tot i got 20 plus positions, knew i'd drop even further. made many silly mistakes i shouldn't have. when we came back i was 14th! woo! God is good amen? the thing is, the gap btwn the 13th person and me is a whopping 17 points! so technically i was really lucky to jump so high. God really answers prayers, we had a time of prayer before competition, and truly He delivers what you ask. NEVER doubt the power of prayer. if its in His will, he'll deliver. when all the results came out, i was 4th in my school. i expected to get 8th. VS got 1st, we beat AC by 8 points! yeah! breaking their 7 years unbeaten record. PLUS 8 points is considered a thrashing. i pity AC, their C div din go home with a 1st either. must be a blow for them. anyway, God is truly good. AC's good sport lah. and they DID try. before we set off today i was really afraid, there were rumours going round that AC and RI were plotting to take us down, block our sailors etc. they DID, during the races, but God sent His angels and protected us and gave us good wind! for a few races i was really at the back, yet i managed to catch up lots. God was doing His good work in us. whee! also realised that even if we used my position in the rankings we'd still beat ac! yeah! to God be the glory.

tim called earlier, it seems that truth element has a really good chance of getting in the semis, albeit not having a bassist. said the judges were really impressed with us. thank God! even if God dusen fulfill our dreams, we know its all in His great big plan for us. so we walk by faith. =) thank You Lord! i love You! =)

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from left to right:
top row - shaun, me, 'driel, howkeat, 'veen
middle row - kris, jiejie, jo.tng, debWAA
bottom row - jo.k, nat, sarah

we look like a happy family. cute pic eh? ;) whee. i jus realised that i AM sunburnt. gonna be worse on thursday and friday.

the past two days have been great. friday i went for training, got boat back from the yard. it looks like nothing happened, the patch job is so good! thank God. hats off to tim ross. on the other hand, i had to have new numbers stuck on. even thou they did it for me for free, they used lousy quality numbers, so it not only looks different, but it affect my streamline-ness a bit. nvm lah. wind was rather light, but we still went out. den wind died, leaving us all stranded outside. took a long time to get back. went for FL anniversary worship pract after that. we had a big team, plus many songs. we were pretty uncoordinated, what with 3 drummers and all. was really scared cuz we hardly got anything done, plus the music sounded horrible, not to mention messy. we left church without having even completed half of the 17 songs.

saturday, went to the dentist. had to wake up SO early. den i went to church for continued worship pract. we prayed lots, and i tink it really helped us. God is good. we had a good pract, much better than the last. got everything done, thou there were so many songs sometimes i forgot what effect i planned to use. jasper and i waited for 'driel who was singing for YAM worship to finish before we went bedok corner together. bot cheng tng back for joanna and jiejie. we sat around fellowship deck waiting for YAM to finish, it began raining a little. poor jas's pictures got blown all over the place. 'veen used a lighter and he burnt off some of mine and his leg hair. sounds sick right but its really cool haha! den we prayed again, 'veen, jiejie and i went up. driel veen and i went to bathe WITHOUT towels. veen and i used the clothes we changed out of, like our shirts and shorts. driel used HIS UNDERWEAR WHICH HE PROCEEDED TO WEAR BACK ONCE HE FINISHED BATHING. imagine! he must have been soggy down there the whole night! haha. deb said he was smelling his feet WITH HIS SHOES STILL ON at the drums. how queer. ;) fruits. so after we bathed we practiced again. prayed one last time backstage, den went to play. God is so good! worship was good! i went in really scared we'd mess up or something cuz we were all so messy and all, and it turned out not bad at all! this is a lesson to be learnt, trust God to work wonders! like darlene zshech once said to the hillsong united team, that sometimes we rely too much on our skills during worship. we need to let go of those gifts, and learn to rely wholly on Him. God is good. i learnt to let go during worship, and din worry anymore about my monitor which was buzzing. eventually it just burst and switched off, and i couldn't hear myself anymore. still, i continued playing, and even thou im sure i made plenty of mistakes, i know its okay. like nat says, perfection is not what we're striving for, we're just looking to be pleasing in God's eyes. =) it went great. in between songs we had vidoes and all, giving us a welcome break. i helped light and push out the FL birthday cake! PLUS pour water on the dry ice so there'll be the mist thing underneath. ;) it was a 5kg cake costing $160!! WOOHOO! kris, shaun, jas, ivee, kor, jiejie and i were backstage during the sharing of testimonies. jas, shaun, jiejie and i kept making so much noise while trying to prepare the cake i tink everyone outside all heard it haha! =) after worship we had lotsa cake. shaun and i sneaked down early, we ate lots! woo. after that went home, den kor mum and i went out for supper.

today woke up bout 0825, replied jiejie's messages, went back to sleep. woke up again at 0955. went to bathe. tried to wake kor up but he din. walked to church in the HOT sun. went for service with jiejie, sam, jo.k and 'driel joined us later. haha the worship was really amusing! they played songs like ONE WAY and KING OF MAJESTY and FOR ALL YOU'VE DONE i tink they play more fast songs than we do sometimes! haha. but what they lacked was an electric guitar la. you should've seen the look on 'veen's face lah super funny =) haha adult service is more hip than we tink. sermon by PJ was really good. on families. thou i was rather shocked when i heard that Lot's daughters slept with him, i never knew that! whoa. TRULY incessed and despo. shocking. anyway, went to auntie angie's house for deborah's 1st month celebration, ate lotsa food, got fat and played xbox. woohoo. i ate chocolate and bomb prata for dinner i am super full now going to die.

this paragraph is dedicated to my dearest jiejie as promised.
hi jie! thanks so much for everything! the laughs, the jokes, the SMSes, the support and all. most importantly, thank you for being YOU. =) its like, the princess and the prince. woohoo! you rock lah jie. i give in k, im STONE only. ;) and YOU ARE NOT FAT DON'T LISTEN TO WHAT PEOPLE TELL YOU. really. dun need to lose 6kg by november, dun need to go to marie france bodyline. ;) thank you for being my pillar of support throughout, whenever im down and all. thank you for the laughs, like "shakespeare in love". ;) its LAYLA KALIF. ;) thank you for the company, the stayover at jo.tng's house and all. thank you for the outings and meals together. =) i love you jie!! hugs.