One Piece re-reads

i love re-reading manga.

as i'm quite a fast reader, i tend to not notice much details during the first read-through of any given manga.

so now that there's nothing much to catch up on, since most of the books are being published at near snail-rate, i finally have the time to do a proper re-read of the One Piece manga.

nevermind that i should be concentrating on reading my Sunday School MBA (Make Bible Alive, NOT Master of Business Administration) course literature instead.

i know. i'm a procrastinator and in self-denial.

i promise i'll try to start reading by at least next week. *cross fingers*

anyway, back to One Piece.

currently at vol 6, i'm fully enjoying the intro of Sanji and the Baratie history. and of course after that, comes the first real arc where Mr Arlong will come in.

hmm. maybe i need to supplement with watching the anime at the same time. shall have to think about that.

AND, i've only discovered this from reading the SBS in vol 6.

in terms of drawing, Odaachi is almost always 3 chapters ahead of the current chapter in Shonen JUMP!

that's damn fast!

is that a usual thing or is it the same with the other shonen mangakas?

in any case, i'm very impressed!

go Odacchi!! get the Epic arc over already!

we want back the Strawhats crew!

more importantly,

give me back SANJI!!

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*coughs*

*change of tone*

on another note, i'm going to watch the Nodame film with the Hong sisters tomorrow night. that's provided Miss Ruth don't PS at the last minute.

she better not. i will most definitely scream at her if she does.

i'm too old for this

after 2 days (20-21 sep) of the TA Amazing Race, i can only conclude that,

i'm too old for this.

even though i'm not even past 30yrs yet, i could feel the years eating away at me.

i only had 2 main motivations for the entire program,
Day 1: to not sleep on the streets of SG.
Day 2: to finish the race and hope that the ending point is in the West.

thankfully, i had a great team that wasn't the cheong sua type, and we never really run for anything, except for that one bus 131 that led us back to our night pitstop at TA2.

other thoughts,

i've never sweat so much since who-knows-how-long-ago, even without all the running. and i've sweat in areas i've never though i would. (dun ask, i'm not saying)

i dunno whether to be thankful that the weather was so good, or curse that it was bloody blazing hot. and i still can't believe i walked up and down Race Course Road in the blazing afternoon sun. without taking out my umbrella.

i hate sleeping in the TA2 choir room. mattress too thin, air-con too cold.
ALL my joints were aching.

seriously, i'm too old for this.

the moment i reached home, had a long thorough bath, drank green bean soup that mum made, and i was out within 5min on my bed.

when i eventually woke up, minus the toilet breaks and such, it was close to 10am today.

you know you're probably too old for these strenuous activities when you need 18hrs to recharge yourself (in this case, myself).
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Singlish 101
cheong sua: hokkien for running up a mountain. usually used by army guys as an alternative term to "gung ho" which means to be enthusiastic, sometimes excessively so.

Christmas

(back-dated due to the fact that i couldn't get into the blog at all during the entire christmas.)

got this paragraph from the bulletin cover page for Christmas service last sunday during church.

Christmas is not about all the things
we bring to the celebration.
Christmas is about what He brings.
Christmas is about a God in Heaven
who loved us enough to send His Son
to die for us
- Randy Vader-

while we kept saying things like, "i don't feel like it's Christmas," or "there's no Christmas mood," etc etc, maybe like what is written above, we've already forgotten why we've been 'celebrating' Christmas.

it's the Christ of Christmas we celebrate, not Christmas itself. Ponder Him!
- 20th Dec, Our Daily Bread, Christmas Edition-

how long has it been since we've really celebrated the birth of our Saviour?

lazy lion

1st post from roar roar for Yr2006...

december has always been a busy month for me... always, with christmas preparations and the year-end camp all lumped together in one month, add in my many afternoon shifts and driving lessons, there's hardly any time to take a good rest inbetween...

and even less time to stop and spend time blogging...

being the procrastinating person that i am, it's a wonder i even started today's entry... den again, i'm on my 1st night shift in 2 weeks, and it's a relatively quiet night today... heehee...

anyway, 2006 will be another busy year ahead...

Main Highlights:

1) Disciple 2 (D2) classes...
a bible study class on sundays, i'm looking forward to classes, even though it's much longer than the usual sunday school classes.

we have homework to do everyday, and as tiring as it seems, it's much easier than when i was in Disciple 1 class because we're only doing 4 books in the bible (compared to the whole bible in D1).

2) YAMS aka Young Adult Ministry Small Group
the conversion of SMYF to small group format. we'll be using the book, Purpose Driven Life, as our study material. more readings to do besides the D2 homework.

3) Taiwan trip in April
never before "adventure" trip to taiwan with moo moo... spending abt 9days there.

our aim, to satisfy our cravings for anime and manga... i think we'll both be bring alot of manga back... mwahaha...

4) Chinese Choir trip to M'sia
a 1st ever trip to m'sia to the churches in a few states. planning has started, but because of the different work and school schedule, we're still not confirm of the exact dates to go.

5) Dog Year
oh my gosh!! it's another Dog Year!! 2 rounds of 12yrs have passed and i'm going to be 24 this year!!


things (that i can rem for now) to do, or not do, in 2006... (note: these are not resolutions)

1) to really, really, really try to sleep early.
my eyebags are getting more and more obvious, that no matter how much concealer i use, it's still no use...

2) read more christian-based books.
lacking in this area, since i'm usually too lazy to pick up anything besides my ODB (our daily bread) and bible.

3) pass my driving test.
if i fail in feb, i'm gonna have to do it again... i hope i pass... *prays*

4) save more money.
'nuff said...

5) finish those short-series anime i have been keep for the past yr or so.
haf more block leaves this yr, so shouldn't be a problem. heehee...


it's only the 8th day of 2006... another 348 days to go...

youth camp 2005

camp came and passed... too many things even to try and sum it all up... and i'm super lazy... haf been since i came back from camp... think i'm still sleep deprived... of cos, it's also my fault for not sleeping early, but i think i'm really juz procrastinating...

here's some photos of the camp... wished i was part of a grp rather than juz an onlooker, and at many times, was really really tempted to help a particular grp with their tabernacle or their robes... but it'll be unfair since i'm one of the judges... >_<.``

in the beginning...

there was nothing...













the planning process, building of tabernacle walls...













seamstress hard at work













ken as the high priest??!! hmm...













joyce and PK (pastor's kid) See playing miniature basketball...













games at nite... to catch a rugby ball...













to sing without laughing is hard... esp if it's 叉烧包...
~叉烧包, 人人都爱吃叉烧包~













group mascots for the armor of God













pillars up! but it's already the 3rd day!!













finally, the curtains are in place around the courtyard...













the completed tabernacle (from the winning grp)













3 high priests...













JiaEn and his very own mini-me... (the ken doll)


















group photo!!













lydia acting cute... mwehehehe...













rare photo with me inside...













~别说 goodbye 放弃你，不要大声骂你...~
hunky-joe's 个人演唱会 after talent-nite. heehee...













captivating all the campers with his "soulful" voice...

more photos of camp here...
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in case u're wondering what i'm doing while the others slave and toil away...

while i'm not taking photos (budget camp, canot find proper photographer), i'm making sure that there's always suifficient water for everyone to drink...

that there's more than enough food or snacks for everyone during meal-times... waking up early to serve as alarms for the others...

and even, even be the auntie that cleans the toilets after the girls are finished for the day...
anything else that is still not listed, i'm most likely the person who is still doing the job... wat can i say...

budget lah, budget... not enough money, or manpower to go around...

thank God there's still helpful people around...

big thank yous especially to my committee members... i noe it's been a gruelling 1-2 months... and all are busy with school or work stu, but u've all done a good job...

especially glad to see ruth participating... both in the committee and in the tabernacle team... girl, u need to do more work!! *grins*

countdown...

5 days til the start of camp...

everything is more or less settled, though the leaders in the 3 groups are getting busy prepping materials for the tabernacle and robes...

in the meantime, wat is supposed to be done this week:

1) print camp booklet. (yomay is compiling for yin chan to help us print)
2) prepare the sash/bandana for the 3 groups. slowly, but surely, i'm gonna write the names of each member of the grp on the cloth used for the bandana.
3) make sure the camp t-shirts are collected from the printing shop in malaysia.
4) ransack MYF cupboard for, hopefully, more materials than can be used for the tabernacle and high priest robes.
5) (personally) buy bag/backpack to put my barang barang for camp... i haf no bag!!
6) miscellaneous

i am not stressed...
i am not afraid of things messing up...
i am not stressed...
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met up with tongying, and chinmun and halim today to but alex' ROM present... din know that halim was back til this afternoon... though i was already expecting him to return within these couple of weeks... there's nothing to do in launie during summer...


after walking around in takashimaya B2, we've concluded that there's nothing we can buy him and soon-to-be wife that is useful now... in the end, bought a $100 gift voucher (tongying's idea) instead... they can go shopping for their own present...

throughout the whole nite, was nagged at every chance by mun mun abt how much weight i've lost... much worse than when sis does it, since every chance equates to almost every 15min interval or so...

believe me, i din want to be like this... initially (like months ago) when people commented, i was alittle happy to hear that i was losing some weight... but after many people pointing out (almost every week), and with me totally not knowing why it was happening, i get very very frustrated...

haf been eating more than usual now... even started to snack alittle, which i usually don't... my house never holds snacks, so i had to go out and buy chocolates...

anyway... with the coming of camp, that meant yanzhen is also coming back next week...

dear dear, i hope you're still coming back on the 6th and that ur plane dun delay this time... we haf alot to catch up on...