The little Angel

The Little Angel=================
There was this little girl sitting by herself in the park.
Everyone passed her by and never stopped to see why she looked so sad.
Dressed in a worn pink dress, barefoot and dirty,the girl just sat and watched the people go by.
She never tried to speak and she never said a word.
Many people passed but no one would stop.
The next day I decided to go back to the park in curiosity to see if the little girl would still be there.
Yes, she was there, right in the very spot as she was yesterday, and still with the sad look in her eyes.
Today I was to make my own move and walk over to the little girl. For as we all know, a park full of strange people, is not a place for young children to play alone.
As I got closer I could see the back of the little girl's dress was obscenely shaped.
I figured that was the reason people just passed by and made noeffort to help.
Deformities are a low blow to our society and, heaven forbid if you make a step toward assisting someone who is different.
As I got closer, the little girl lowered her eyes slightly to avoid my intent stare.
As I approached her, I could see the obscene shape of her backmore clearly. She was grotesquely shaped in a humped-over form.
I smiled to let her know it was OK, I was there to help,to talk.
I sat down beside her and opened with a simple, "Hello."
The little girl acted shocked, and stammered a "hi,"
After a long stare into my eyes,I smiled and she shyly smiled back.
We talked until darkness fell and the park was completely empty.
I asked the girl why she was so sad.
The little girl looked at me and with a sad face and said,
Because, I'm different.
"I immediately said,
"That you are!"
and smiled.
The little girl acted even sadder and said, "I know."
"Little girl," I said, "you remind me of an angel, sweet and innocent."
She looked at me and smiled. Slowly she got to her feet and said, "Really?"
"Yes, you're like a little Guardian Angel sent to watch over all those people walking by."
She nodded her head yes, and smiled.
With that she spread her wings and said, "I am. I'm your Guardian Angel," with a twinkle in her eye.
I was speechless and sure I was seeing things.
She said, "For once you thought of someone other than yourself. My job here is done."
I got to my feet and said, "Wait. So why did no one stop to help an angel?"
She looked at me and smiled,"You're the only one that could see me," and then she was gone.
And with that, my life was changed dramatically.

So, when you think you're all you have, remember, your angel is always watching over you.

My Cow New Year in pics

Scrumptious steamboat!! :P~

CHu Yi~ Poker n guitarheroes at Ac's..


ALL MINEEEE!!! hahhaha

Chu Er~~ At cousin's place..

Preparing for Chingay!!

Chingay Day 1!! Lets hope tml will be even better!

Tired after one night.. Whew, still can camwhore. ;)

Keep posted! will update this post w more pics! :)

Huat ah ppl!

Woot!! Just ended a poker session w the usual gang. Tonight was truly one of the best sessions ever man!! Me n Blackie laughed til our sides almost split! Tonight we played In Between, abit of BlackJack, and rotated games with Texas. In Between was damn fun lah!!! ANd EXTREMELY hilarious!! My first time playing full scale..

I was actually like owning in Texas Poker and In Between--like 30++bucks on my stash, then this super low-odds card came out when i bet like 10bucks at In Between then muz pay double. Damn high can the game! Happened twice to poor Pwee..he like really damn suay can. reallydamnsuay....haha and the funniest part was the chanting!! The guys were juz crazily chanting away like madmen.. "acetwo-K, acetwo-K" Walau damn funny! And the worse thing is the chants work! the really damn suay cards REALLY come out when we chant can! It was damn funny when Bengtat bet all in..like more than 25bucks on e table..then Johnny(the damn sly dealer) was like. "OK. CHANT!" lol super hilarious! we actually played til 430am sia.

But damn worth it. It's such a fab start to CNY! Oh, and we had chunlian painting before dinner! Such a fantastic idea by our block comm! Basically everyone painted a chunlian and we hung it up and voted. People came up w ultra funny chunlians cos of all our bad chinese, like Blackie's 山上流水 xi li li eh and 山上流水 hua la la eh.. and like Janice's 风和日丽 cos she wrote that as a pri kid, then someone clipped on a 清彭大雨 to couple w hers. haha the things we do!

Here's mine! I like the one below alot. :)

Anyway CNY's here and here's wishing all you lovelies a happy CNY! May everything be jolly and prosperous in life n love for u! :D

Go Obama! :)

In about near 3 hours, Barack Obama is gonna be sworn in, and I think alot of people are gathered at Washington right now waiting to be part of this making of history. Although I'm worlds away, the excitement, surprisingly, has also hit me, and I've been reading BBC for the past hour, trying to update myself about the stuff going on halfway ard the globe..

Anw, I've read his plans for presidency, and it truly brings hope! I'm especially hopeful for his climate and Iraq plans, and I'm so glad he put them top on his priority list! Tonight's gonna be the start of new changes, and there better not be some idiot trying to assassinate him or the whole world's gonna flip. Go Obama! damn i shlda bought an Obama shirt in the US.

My sexy bones

So, I went down to the doc's today afternoon, and tadahH! my foot's now like this; yup. Looks super fat from the solid cast lining my underfoot..Had to take an X-ray, which showed my bones to be normal, just that there's this dubious smudge that the doc says he has to check in case it's a hairline crack or smth. Hope not..
See. I got such sexy bones. haha! My first ever X-ray too!

Here's me on the X-ray table..

And then when the doc finished wrapping my foot..

Quite sad lar, school just has to start tomorrow man.. How to walk!! Esp when biz has like a thousand and one steps to hobble up.. :( Thank god I found Yunwen who just passed me her crutches! Anyway, sis had fun wheeling me out of the hospital. I was offered the wheelchair like. THREE TIMES? sighs. like handicap liao. Now I know how u feel, bao! OK la, but it was fun. my first time on a wheelchair..

Mom was so amused when she took our pics w my phone cam. haha!

Ohyes, then the night before, the family went out on a dinner together to Waraku @ Eastcoast! 9 of us went, with the addition of Weiliang and Waihan, Sis and Bro's "spouses" hurhur. It was damn fun! It felt like we have 6 kids in the house now, and like all of us around the same wavelength..It's so fantastic we're all so comfortable w each other, and I guess the fact that the bf n gf were introduced into the rest of our lives actually brought us closer tog as siblings!

Got pretty used to Bro's gf's presence over the hols..actually I was abit lightbulb. But then I had a fab time, and I think I know my bro much better too after watching them together, since it's like. his first gf. It's like watching sis n WL tog. so mushy and act-cutsey. ee. haha! Well I guess it's gd that he's actually showing me this side..I think I never was like that w Xm in front of my family, which made me totally segregate my lovelife n my 'real' life; that's probably why we'd never work out. I wonder how things would be like when the little bro and me get attached too. I think right now we're both content hanging around being single, and it's been fantastic with the two new additions.

I told ma about how it felt like we had six kids now, and then she was like. Ya! Ur dad always wanted six kids..and we both laughed at how he's gonna get another two more in a coupla years. It's fantastic! I love my fam, and it's just only gonna get better as we grow bigger. The sis and bro like can go and get married liao lor. I just hope I'll bring the right addition to make our four an eight! Hm. sometime in the future prolly. :)

My first sprain.

And it happened so fast I barely knew what was going on. All I know was that I heard a huge CRACK and then it hurt real bad, then faded away, then came back again..And then it swelled like a pig's trotter! :(

Zhebin was so nice to help me ice it..I had to put my whole foot into a pail of ice, which made it throb..and then I'm supp to elevate it when i sleep, but it was so uncomfortable n I found my foot at the base of the pillows when I woke up. Hm. so mafan. Anw, it's so inconvenient cos I sprained just after I found out there's touch friendly w e guys tml, and then there is Chingay rehearsal from 11am to 10pm tml! At Kallang! THat is so important and I really really wanan be there for it! I hope I can just tape up and go! Zhebs says it'll take abt 2-3wks to heal..Hopefully just in time for CNY! Otherwise how to wear heels sia! :( Damn. school starts soon too. How inconvenient. And touch ihg on sat!!! :((

Still, it is my first ever sprain or injury due to sports, and I was quite excited haha despite the pain. I always thought ppl who could tape their knee, ankle, elbow, etc. all looked damn cool, like when playing sports.. so sporty..haha! Well my turn now! But sucks la the pain. I hope it doesn't make me rheumatic or anything. When the wind blows my joints sometimes ache like an old woman. Jialat.

Will call ma to buy 4D, 9109! haha today's date. :P

oh happy day~

Wahoo! Today was such an impromtu paintballing outing!! My first ever!! YES. One more tick off that list of things to do before i die. DAMNN SHIOOK! We definitely gotta go back and do it again man!!! 100 pellets is simply not enough.

It was C-vilians against C.W.A.T... AND THE C-VILIANS RAWKED! 'Ownage man!' -quotes Lester.. ok la. actually that was just the first match. Barely 5mins and we took our flag already. And we did that twice. Then 2nd match, me n xun were at the frontline of our side, and it was pretty intense! I think i'm a good shooter. hurhur! Apparently the 3 other guys were "hiding" behind at the back..didn't notice. but anw C.W.A.T won this round lah..with an additional purple brick we were supp to get back to base..oh and I didn't even get hit once!! If u don't count the stain i found on my shoe. how cool can!! I dodge so well! Lol. ok but honestly i think i nv run much too lah. even tho i was like. 1m away from the enemy line, behind three big cans. The game ended before I even knew it. But it's damn thrilling lahh! Can't wait to do it again. :D

All of us!!

C-vilian Beat C.W.A.T! :P
Team C-vilian!
FYFs!
hurhur lester and King..

THen we had to rush back cos xxy had bball friendly and I had Chingay preview..Actually it was quite fun..we got to firsthand paint our faces and wear the full costume n take pics w e float! With all its lights on. Got to see some of the other floats too! And I basically juz sat on e float and pose n wave. haha! Heng no need to dance.. the costumes are quite finicky. Had quite a fun time w Xiying who was the other elf! Lots of photos! Check it out!

Freshly-painted stars!

Posing w the floats after e photoshot..

the Eusoff float

Some cute caterpillar float!All of us in the minivan! :D

Oh yes. to end on a happy note, Malik the security guard juz now at dinner on e rooftop, said I was "original pretty, no need makeup also pretty"!! hahahaa okayokay i know cheap thrill! bah. :P

some US pics

Xmas n the New year~

Last night was the gathering at Daryl's, and we had such a wii-cked good time!! Haa sorry for the pun but yes, it was the first time I've played so much wii in my entire life man! Uber fun can! The rabbids are totally insane!

But sadly i still maintained 3rd place after like. 2hrs of consecutive playing? With some help here n there from ed n shar.. how frustrating. lol but it was good fun! And super hilarious too!! Laugh until got abs man. I really love S41 meets. I guess each outing makes us treasure each other more somehow. Anyway i've got a few revelations for my new year resolutions after yesterday's gathering.. I think this year i've been too caught up in my own existence and never really realised the Lurrves around me. Cannot. This can't do. Must resolute to bring back the old me.

Ok I will talk about resolutions later.

Lemme update the second half of my dec this year..Basically, it's been filled with lots n lots of carolling, gathering and games, and movies onscreen and on HBO! Caught twilight with the hall peeps--the show everyone was raving about; and then Ip Man with Justin, keong, Bobs n Bao, which was such a fab kungfu show! Love it action-packed. The best part was the hilarious bits too, and I think my fav character in the show was Ip Man's wife! Firm n virtuous. Next time when I'm a wife I wanna be like that. haha! And then, being the tv junkie I am, I think I caught about at least five shows in the past two days on cable. MIB, Deuce Bigalow, Transformers, and like a few random others on HBO too. hurhurs.

Oh, then then on xmas night there was poker at AC's place! My first time there, and the first time he's using his newly made poker table! Haiyah so free make table. lol! ANw it was good, i'm sure this will continue this year..haha. Tho sadly I lost like 20bucks? But I will have better luck now! I just know it. My new xmas gift was a sign. haha.

Okays now about 2009's resolutions..looking back,

I think laziness and being single is majorly the reason i'm so jaded with life, but it is hardly a reason to be such a slob! I received something for xmas this season that shook me out of it. It wasn't anything big, but I was quite touched. Reminded me that I haven't been attentive to my friends around me..or perhaps I've not been really the person I want to be; maintaining the friendships around me and being more giving; I think the last time I really made something for a friend was a whole year ago! :( *if u don't count dating game*

There's so much happening in my life, and I'm real thankful for that, but I guess I could be happier. I haven't been doing the things I want to do for others, and I think I know the reason why. Procrastination is Evil. Dang we all know that but we keep doing it don't we. There is so much to work on myself this year..my last year in KR already, counting down from this sem, I cannot regret NOT doing anything!

So. This coming year, I resolute to;
1) Be more giving
2) Sleep less
3) Initiate more gatherings
4) Let go and be abit more crazy; it's FYF period! :(
5) Stop being so cynical of life
6) Contribute more in projects
7) Keep my room clean--I will totally miss my 3yrs in it!
8) Meet up with friends all over
9) Expect more of myself
10) Win more @ poker! hahaa (okay this is not mandatory)

Things I know won't change: (hopefully reverse psych helps here)
1) Being such a tv junkie
2) Being such a fbwhore
3) Believing in beauty in my mess (乱中带美, you know?)
4) Loving food (moderation, i must remind myself)
5) Blogging sporadically (can't help la. easier to juz upload pics on fb)

Yups, that should be it for resolutions.. But anw, I hope by next xmas, I'll see myself giving more gifts!! For real. Not exchange gifts only. I hardly gave out any this year! And hopefully summer won't see me too americanised, nor depressed cos I'm alone overseas..I'm really looking forward to it now and I hope that never hits me.

May 2009 bring a new horde of friendships my way, and keep the old ones gold and lasting!

Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat! :)

haha I am laughing at my title now cos it just reminds me how my bro changed the word "goose" to "you" when he was trilling it to me. -_-' right. lol fine. but I am happy!! It's my fave season of the year!! Although i still wish i'm in US with the sis but well. Christmas songs are playing on the radio and Christmas Carols are stuck in my head so all is jolly and goooood. :)

Nooow. wassup w my hols.. it's been carolling, carolling and more carolling! Tml got, xmas also got 4 sessions! but it's been an experience, really. I had sports but i think i've been going for more chingay dance pracs more than either flrball or touch. *guilty* Love the dance pracs tho! Quite fun esp when me n xun are such good partners!

Anyway, I can't believe I'm currently in hall on the eve of eve of xmas.. Just went around chatting to Joe and Dennis, who I've both not talked to a long time already, and it was good to catch up! Realised that alot of couples have sprouted around this festive season, which is, a good thing i guess. Been chilling out abit here and there with great company, and it seems this december has flown by!

Oh yes, and of course there was the USA, which is, everything I've expected and more! Definitely satisfying; and I'm half glad I'm going back in the summer.. half glad, and abit half scared. But that's another story.

Shall post up pics of recent times!! And prolly some of my fav US pics. Most are in fb alr anyway.

Alrighty Merry Christmas everyone!!

Timbre w e hall peeps~

Foolin' around downtown east before Ip Man. Fantastic show!! I wanna watch it again! :)