happy new year

ushering in year 2007 is the best thing that had ever happened to me.

new year's eve
woke up at 9.30am. crazy me. went to church for some admin stuff. after that, attended service in the century. the sermon was good. i think i was like an irritation to the people sitting around me because of my runny nose and irritating cough. i was like blowing my nose and coughing phlegm the whole time. i used up two packets of tissue in just two hours? crazy me. the sermon was like : life in church in the upcoming future. i was like making notes on how to make up a sermon. was thinking to myself, if i were to preach in the future, how am i going to do it? better draft up a template now. come to think of it, yesterday's sermon was much of a sermon. the pastor was just like talking about building up the church in the future.

highlight of the day! went to gerald's house of countdown. we, youthexplorers, about 30 of us i think, went to macs first for dinner, then around 8pm, we went to gerald's house. boy, he lived on the top floor. why do most people i know, like to live at the top floors? anyway, gerald keeps TWO dogs. narcotics dogs. they sniff out drugs. one's a beagle the other is some mixed breed. both are males. i really like both dogs. they don't bark at all. NOT AT ALL. both dogs are SUPER UBER heavy. i think triple is losing hair. ANYWAY, i played mahjong and taiti like the whole time i was there. don't really like bridge. over at gerald's house, we also sang songs and had a sharing session. gerald was the one who started sharing, then ian. my brother was supposed to share too, but aiyah it's just him. my bro can't share his personal experiences.
anyway, my brother learnt how to play mahjong. i think he's getting addicted on it (: mahjong just so totally rock. the low brothers are pretty good at it. it was only after a few rounds of mahjong before benlow actually won. SUDDENLY, we had to stop our game. gerald got news that there was bombing in thailand. we had to stop and pray for our dear friends in bangkok. it turned out that they weren't hurt and that they were only just two stations away from the bombing site.

10..9..8..7..6..5..4..3..2..1..HAPPY NEW YEAR!! everyone then went round shaking hands, wishing their well wishes. wah. shaun yen. you squeezed my hand extremely painfully. you're an idiot. anyway, we got back to playing mahjong till we had to leave. oh. jiansheng is like uber good in playing the guitar. i think both me n daniel pflug are like awed by him.

daddy sent both jiansheng n enyao home. boy were we squeezed like sardines in the car. off to dreamland at 11pm.

new year day
i love this day. daddy, mummy, me, nat n vanessa spent the whole day with uncle paul, kochi, james and wesley
morning.
i felt really sick and we're going pulau ubin for cycling. my body was aching. i think i felt like i had a fever. when we reached changi for breakfast, i had no appetite at all. i was so sick. when uncle paul, wesley n james arrived, they arrived on their bikes. they rode all the way from home!! POWER sia. i felt totally sick. mummy suggested to go take panadol so i had to like WALK ALL THE WAY TO THE CAR to get the PANADOL. i really felt better after that. panadol really works. oh. i saw REMY ONG at changi marketplace. the bowler!! remy ong looks so different as on tv. as soon as my brother heard that remy ong was like just where we were, he got up and tried to find him. around 9am, we boarded the bumpboat to get to pulau ubin.

it has been a REALLY LONG time since i last been to pulau ubin. the last time was like in sec1? or even pri6! we rented bikes and as usual, the bikes were screwed. why are the gears so hard to switch? haha. my mother doesn't know how to manuever those gears unlike me, daddy n nat. so whenever we came to those hills or slopes, she would get down from the bike and push. it took quite sometime to familiarize myself with the bike. ONCE I GOT USED TO IT, it was FREEHAND!! cycling without two hands! whooo! that adrenali rocks! my record is like 10seconds freehand riding. after having some coconuts at some beach, i told my mummy that i came to pulau ubin for some real exercise and really have some fun, not just cycling to enjoy the breeze. uncle paul kinda overheard and so, daddy, mummy and vanessa were one team and went somewhere else easier to cycle. while me, nat, wesley, james and uncle paul were one team and cycled some road tougher. did i say that i want some real excitement? OH BOY. DID I GET ONE.

uncle paul led us to some really bad terrain track. got scratched by branches, bumps here and there. bugs, mud, whatever dirty. then, there were this really big overhanging branches with leaves and all that. all of us but james went through. SUDDENLY, we're all crazy monkeys. RED ANTS!! those bloody red ants! going through that branches shook off tons of ants on us. those red ants bit really hard. it was painful. we were whacking each other. tons of screaming, jumping and yelling. it was like the moment i got through those branches, i felt something biting me, saw it was red ants, i THREW off my bike and went around screaming and hitting myself. now looking back, the scene must be seriously hilarious. LAUGH OUT LOUD. i really had a fun time cycling. had lunch in pulau ubin. cycled to the quarry and that's the end. it's back to the singapore shores.

we planned to meet at changi beach club for swimming. my mom and kochi went somewhere in the clubhouse to enjoy themselves. my brother, sister and i played around with the little kiddies while waiting for james n wesley to come join us. i think it was like more than an hour later before they came. haha. vanessa got bullied by wesley. TONS. they were playing with some coin. like fetch the coin once it's thrown into the pool and the first person to get it wins. after they were playing a few times, i decided to play in too. boy was wesley SO SURPRISED. the whole scene was underwater. i got to the coin first but he practically swerve my hand away from getting it, so i did it the same to him. i got it, but i snatched it away so i snatched it back and swam back to the surface. it's amazing that i actually managed to keep my breath underwater all this time. then when wesley surfaced, he was SHOCKED. haha. continued swimming till 6pm. oh. i was also trying to teach both james n wesley how to somesault into the water. man. they have no balls! haha. they were like super timid about not doing it. sigh.

anyway, showered, got dressed and went for dinner at the cafe. the portions were like super small! after dinner was bowling. i bet wesley was lying when he said that it was his 2nd time bowling his whole life. he's like UBER good. VERY good. he said it's newbie's luck. urgh. whatever. after two games, we went to check on daddy n uncle paul on their karoke. gosh. i don't really like karoke. that's why i don't go to kbox or whatever. it's not that my voice is not good, but i don't really like singing some stupid love song and look at the screen which has some stupid background going on.

anyway, i sat on this really comfy couch. wesley came to sit too. haha. and we're like talking so loudly over the noise. okay not noise. uncle paul n daddy n mummy n kochi were singing. it just doesn't sound pleasant to my ears. i think i was like screaming talking. anyway, james wanted to sing a song, so he got wesley to sing with him. man. i had to shut my ears! after some songs, we went home. could not stop thinking n smiling to myself about what had happened the whole day.

the best day of my life :)