TODAY is Chris' wedding.
sometimes pple ask u to go for their wedding, u're half hearted, simply becasue u duno the person well, or dun have many common friends, or like its such a far and boring location, or like u're just in a bad mood/busy.. but this wedding was a happy one on many counts.
nice place
mei shuem played for his wedding
common friends in spite of a small wedding
nearby (i drank 2 beer and then reached home by 930, went to the gym till 1010 when it closes) hee
busy though
and chris is really a gd friend. no matter how much my parents dislike him for nonsensical reasons-they rather listen to my psycho ex than me their daughter. 'too american' 'too rich' 'too nice'
how can it be? Oh well.

he married a joyce whom thankfully received Christ rather recently.
it was a nice small wedding and i m so glad chris invited me
he sold me his strat and gives me free lifts+food. when he sold me the strat (after not seeing him for like 2 yrs) i noticed 2 things, he was happy, n he didnt smell of smoke. and i knew, yeeah, mayb joyce is gd for him. there was a sense of restedness instead of his usual restlessness.

i duno anything about her,except that she does some HR or admin work, and today i met her for the 1st time.

some memorable conversations

samat: now faith got cute pastor, pastor joel
mei: yes yes, he is cute, nowadays got cute pastors!
soaps: yah i know pastor joel, married got kids
samat: and sorry for u, his wife very hot
soaps: *roll eyes*
mei: ya that cute pastor we met also married alr
samat: ya ya, pst joel sing a preach at the same time!
soaps: wah, but some pastors really ugly, so gd lor
samat: ya, some ...
soaps: *sudden realization* oh but this one *pointing to the one beside me* is ok!
samat and mei : laugh!!!!

chris to joyce: hey meet sophie, she gatecrashed, she wasnt invited!!
soaps: *pointing to my NAME on the table* WHAT THE HECK!!!
Joyce: oh sophie, soophie cheng, i heard so much abt u
*awkard silence while chris looks away as i give me the eye*
joyce: dont worry, all good things
soaps *tells herself actually u day liddat i more worried*

samat: you look SPG
mei: agrees
soaps : not very flattering, spg some ugly

chris: wah spg dress!
soaps: eh your wedding garden theme, this dress got leaves leh
wah piang eh

daph: samat can u pls send us the pic! its so rare for the SUNDAY SCHOOL kids to have a reunion!!
samat: *shrugs
daph: chris, he is not very gd with tis?
chris: ya, but i will bug him
soaps: ok neither of the 2 is gng to happen
chris: ok then sophie, make yourself useful, remind samat
soaps: NO


next wedding is devi's and then eunice kang's and my cousin's
devi's is a traditional one which i m looking forward to
eunice kang's one is ok, at the legends again. and i'm nt sure if she invited the pple i know. but i hope so
my cousin's wedding is a nitemare since he isnt doing ay work and my mum has taken it upon herself to plan certain things and everybody is nt happy... why the invite dont have xx name, why this why that?? and then i tell my mum, tell them to DIY!!! i think my mum needs to read the book boundaries. which i shall do a review soon.
done for 2009
missed some weddings this yr haha for the reasons above.

minyu say, how come pple last time all no gf bf then now they get married faster than us? haha.. to be honest dat was TEN YRS AGO.
so ya

http://www.thai-language.com/dict n utube
words
19/11 singha Khom (August)
20/11 dang (loud)
21/11 raawng (sing)
22/11 dtohtL menR (fart smelly)
23/11 dtaeng/daang (marry)

24/11 yim (smile)
25/11 aan (Read)
26/11 naawn (sleep)

OK i ran at NTU today as kel dragged me there. it was GRADIENT i hate slopes i hate gradient they mess with my pacing. so screw it, we ran mayb 3+km only shit i hate gradients but he has a point, i have so much breath to complain abt the ants, the slopes (i call them gradients) and the traffic, the air, the water, the everything, means i not tired he tired of mycomplaints bah, and he said running slower than usual is tiring :( baaaah (thai for stupid)

no i didnt run 4.7km today. i think i ran 4.2 only, less than yday and i was really really really tired. :(its so bad for my mind, i feel like i regressed.

but ok, so friday i will run 4.7 and SUNDAY i will run 5km.

was talking to paul and he says his running at 10-11km/hr is SLOW. omg. when can i ever run like a moderate man. i feel like its not all in the mind. male bodies have something that i dont have. why its so easy for them to run at 10-11km/hr?? i wont last a song at that pace. and i remember jon telling me NS 2.4 they make u run on treadmill at 12km/hr

ok maybe my goal for next yr is twofold
1. run 10km
2. run 2.4 at 12km/hr


my goals every yr is the same/similar, 2010 is coming and my 2009 goals were

1. aikido, lindy, diving
i did some of aikido and lindy.
but not regularly.. now i add i want to wakeboard.
at LEAST i canoed... diving is still.. a mental issue for me. i promise myself to talk to my bro abt it. he was a navy diver. maybe he can shed some light on my diving interest

2. find church, covertocover
found church, gave up cover to cover

3. complete thesis, BGST
thesis completing, BGST on hold till 2012 bah

4. get more involved in HIV work
DONE

5. watch my temper
no, yday i just told my dad 'keep quiet la' i guess my niece learnt that, she said 'shh' to my dad when she was watching tv

6. learn electric/flute
i learnt both. but i cant play anything decent.

not bad. i think i kept to most of it

ok so 2010

1. aikido with bernie. i think with him i'm more regular.. tue or thurs. MAKOTO aikido here i come. i need to practice. i actually miss the art.
lindy on mondays with diana. maybe alternate weeks
run as above--mornings
swim when the sun is out-sundays bah
learn diving-check with brother lloyd and alyssa go wakeboard, soon

2. since i found a church my aim wld be hmm be regular with IDT bah. i think that covers A LOT of grd alr

3. I dont think i want to study anything at BGST. IDT wld already kill me.
But i think i want to learn THAI/malay. i hope its malay i'm learning and not bahasa indo. :( how about one new thai-malay-greek word a day? today i learn singha khom means august. i decided to learn it coz is singha like beer. hahhaha easy.. dai yin mai means can u hear? thai song

4. no more new social service initiatives. enough. just maintain. consider a stint with grace's sister though, in thailand. or with dale in cambodia

5 i'd continue to watch my temper and pray for my family bah

6. continue learning guitar. focus. maybe midyear learn some violin(borrow my sis)/chinese flute. something not too ex and relatively easy and not heavy to carry bah. actually i do think i should go for the LRSM grading. which means i need to take grade 8 theory and practice classical music. let me sleep on this one. oh and continue to write, collab with cove red, alternation, marc nair, paul n whoever that comes along!!

7. rethink the SE

so its a good thing i am progressing. somewhat.

today i did nothing much-as usual
whahaaha
my c# dropped off. :( old old old piano 20yrs old. moved house 3xs.

anyways i learnt 2 potato songs, one in C one in G# all easy, straight forward. shiok songs, NICE NICE NICE
for those who missed, euphe kindly uploaded a fair bit of vids http://www.youtube.com/user/euphe#p/a/u/0/TOmvZo4uBd8
anywayz then euphe tempted me to go to changi airport to send potato off, hahha but i decided to run instead and do some thesis..they put them up in RE HOTEL. bahbahbah what kinda boutique sleaze place man.. sadly she only managed to catch one of the members, pup had left.. i m feeling hungry for popeye that i half regret nt gng..

today i ran for 1/2 hr, covered 4.4 km. yes. trw i run 4.7, fri i shall run. fri i shall run 5km!!
I'm quite happy with my running progress.. out running the guys in the gym is very fun.

monday i went with justin to macritche to run a trail. he was walking i was jogging, u know. but he said he was tired and yet he went to cycle after that. wahhaaha. i slept. i jumped at a moving leaf and screamed a few times. i decided trail running isnt so much of my thing, but maybe it will becasue i think it gives a different work out. we did 1hr and covered only 6km. there was a good amt of walk. the trail isnt made for jogging or running. hardly any flat ground!!

tue i went SWIMMING and i timed myself, i told myself swim 30mins and i did, rather slow but i thot i shld work out my muscles. see, after the traill, strangely my calves were ok, thighs a bit achey, but my shoulder and neck wah PAIN. i wonder its too much staring at grey's or the trail. anyway, blame justin and tudou. but the pt is i think the running is gd but i need to work other parts of my body

wed i ran 4.4. yes
thurs 4.7--oom/id4?
fri 5km i can do this. try to hit 35mins---s2s last gig at dempsy. q bar i must must must

by end of dec i want to run 10km.
2010 will be maintain 10km but run faster. hows that?
and make sure even if i am a guy, i run 2.4 can pass...

my mind is so not on thesis. i HATE IT. DETEST HATE i will not give up on this, but some other things, i think i will.

novemberun becasue octoberfest. i didnt realize i'd get so serious abt it.

pi pup is so handsome and his voice is so nice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_38_3t7BfV4&feature=player_embedded#
see for yourself. pi pup is soo cute that y fren's mummy shouted at him 'pup u so handsome! and she touched his hand'....

pi ome touched my hand wahahahaahhaahah.. sindric said hope he throw his PSR, but for me if he give me his guitar pick i happy alr. i was praying for some guitar anointing actually wahahahaaha i said to God, wah i wan to touch pi ome's hand.

hHAAHAHAH
and he did!woohoo!

pi ome is the guitarist who reached the airport at 9pm for a gig at neverland that was supposed to begin at 9pm

started at 11+

i barely got home at 2am

a few things went thru my mind abt this whole thing

1. neverland used to be fire (where i had a fight in the toilet once, and hung out there with jamie, mich, nats, min, duno who else)

2. sindric is very funny
soaps 'at neverland, orchard plaza'
sin' where is orchard plaza?
soaps between centrept and the istana, beside that hotel?
sin meridian?
soaps i think so
sin i thot at forum borders there
soaps dats the other lup sup place, orchard towers not plaza, plaza is also lupsup
sin i duno where leh, between centrept and....
soaps ok ya beside the meridian
sin....hmmm
soaps... ya
sin.. HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH THATS WHERE MY OFFICE IS!
soaps......
sin... i never go office
soaps..
sin.. hahha
soaps.... ok see u BYE

3. the 'carpark' food there SUCKS 5 dumplings $5. screw u! my bah chor mee.. i saw the sauce... i... ?!!? dont eat there, the meridian foodcourt so much better

4. the new drummer is very very very gd, but i heard the mgt kicked the old drummer (Who was also very very gd-the only original member of potato left in potato, singer died) out becasue he din wanna endorse big brands and wanted to do more indie stuff rather than commercial. so sad. pi pup cried in the concert when pi bom (ex drummer) went to play a song with them

5. there are so many thais and thai lovers. the song i posted up there, no joke, the audience was louder than the house. sad song!! my fav potato song, followed by nite life which they din play...

6. the opening acts had many sexy girls. they skirts is near one piano octave. we saw them near the sex shops and we girls were like exchaning looks and i said 'oh they r here to work'
when we saw them onstage, my fren said 'ok la, at least here to sing'
soaps *eyes wide*
friend oh ya, who knows wat happens thereafter
soaps *nods* (music very loud, no point shouting, just express with my face)
friend, omg the lead singerlooks so old
soaps 'er YA MAN!" ok i had to agree loudly on that
sigh

7. they bowed and almost like knelt and said thank u to us after the concert. only thai pple r so polite.

8. it was one of the only times in a long long while when someone shouted SINGAPORE n i shouted back. a gd way to build national identity is to get foreign stars as such to come in, i says!!!

9. it was a 4piece band, tight and full. the interactions between musicians, solid

10. bassist had a tech, who fed him water WHILE he was playing.. so action, but nice la i alsowant a tech to feed me drinks. i shld create a gig bag for musicians to keep metronome, capo, guitar picks, extra strings, drum sticks and cyclist water bag which allows drinking without hands.. maybe a snack, file for charts.... magnets, ear plugs..

11. neverland a bit sucky. the sound was bad, though the band was unperturbed. and they dun allow u to sit in front unless u buy bott. but when the thing started, everything was in a frenzy ... they wanted to put 8 of us on a table enough only for 2. wahaha but euphe has friends, so we got one GOOD TABLE! no need to buy stupid bottle

12. duno why got smoking rm but pple still smoke everywhere. but u know i'm sick. i like the smell of post smoke. sexy. i got sexy smelling hair now. wanna smell?

side note, yday trail hiked at macritche, longer than sch's cross country. my NECk hrts more than my calves or thighs.. maybe its tudou grey's anatomy. love grey's
i swam today cause the sun was glorious, and i slept the whole noon coz i duno why i was sooo worn out!!

trw i want to run 5km, i mean today . it almos 4 am.. euphe's quetsion to me aty 145 am 'can sleep ornot!?!! hahaha' was somewhat prophetic. but given i havent been sleeping early and had a nap, its norm. :P

thoughts actions feelings regrets lives vs lives in regrets cld it be better to not think not do not feel invest in love, so says greys http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/WCOJnscxAw0/

habits r hard to break
patterns may not be good in an overall sense but you just get used to it

sometimes u dont realize its a habit, that the habit has become your life.
and then maybe its too late. or not.

where did you go? where are you? where are you going?
too comfortable risk asking these questions

the gf with r/s mishap shared she felt very freed suddenly.. i'm so glad for her... and this is how the article goes.

http://singleness.org/agape.shtml

i dont entirely agree with it
and she sums it up well "agape love is risky"

yeah
atta girl

"its dark though i turned on the light, there's no one left to make it right, on my own, its all in my mind... " shld i be worried for this song writer? its not me if u r thinking. just another dear sister.

she goes on "dont know why i cant release my heart from everything you do to me, we're gng round and round and round. all these memories want to fade, cant we stay the same always just one wanna stay with u in my memory of the way you held me once.'

i must say the song goes round and round in my head. i think she's pretty gd at her craft.

as for me, no single malts, no mixed, no alcohol. its sunday. wahhahhahhah waiting for my hair to dry out. another day of keys trw.... hope to find yinky her beloved. she deserves a gd set of ebony and ivory-which i WOULD get to play hee hee hee... yes and i shall wear ebony and ivory for the photoshoot. lame .. sigh i dont want to turn up though, i dont want my face on soft.com. shit...

on my own, solitary activity i begin to love...running on treadmills rock.. the last run was yday 3.8km, no achy legs, very gd. though its a piece of cake to many. adrian just ran 21km and i know my cousin and his gf did some marathon... he was rather slow for his timing coz he was pacing her, sweet. i duno how they do it.... by end of next week, i want to run 5km without achey legs. my knees are itching to run. someone told me something abt releasing the antihistamines when u run??? i know endorphins but wahhahhahhahah watever I guess God has helped me to redeem some history. used to hate running coz of cedar. but yeah, i think in SAJC when ms tan ran with us and sang with us, i duno if she realized she was sowing seeds of love. now i just listen to israel-lakewood-freechapel (basically just israel) oh and i finally met a guy who jogs slower AND shorter distance than me. in the gym. its evil but i feel happy, esp since recently there have been a grp of 3 boys running 5km almost everytime i'm there and they run it at 2km/hr faster than me and they do it like 'no sweat', literally i think one of the boys never sweat after the run.

SASW called, when r u getting accredited?? i sent the form EARLY THIS YR with my transcripts and pic. the form is on exboss table STILL if he doesnt send it i cant b accredited-insufficient hrs in any other org illegal social worker to be, shingz the christians. i will eat my words if u send the form for me. eat eat eat