one week of no homework, no assignments and no presentations! could i ask for more? :D

guitar practice today was FUN. amos and i got to ride the bar pole thingie at the cpa. the one that is stuck to the stage ceiling and is lowered to put the microphones and stuff. initially amos lowered it to knee level, and shao wei wanted to grab it but he was too heavy scared the thing give way. so i decided to hop on and grab the bar then amos lifted that thing. IT WAS SUPER FUN getting lifted way above the ground into the stage ceiling :D after me was amos haha. is it illegal? who cares seriously? :D

have you noticed.. i've never posted pictures on the blog before, except for a few concept art. thus, today i shall break tradition and post a picture. or maybe two!


this image is titled 'joeyy (john asked me to rename it to - joey with john in the background)'. after much persuasion from me, joey renamed the picture to include me! :D as you can see. my attempt to steal the limelight from the birthday girl was successful! XD


fourcasters (except andy) at kallang theatre! as you can see, i'm really happy after spending FIFTEEN DOLLARS + FIVE on the cab + SIX at KFC.


haha randomness. this is my fire mage at level 50+. by the way i've quit already. i finally realised maple was a stupid game. yanhan realised it at level 83 :D lol

oh wellies. soccer match with teachers tomorrow. followed by a guest performance at chij toa payoh at night.

i want to sleep late and wake up late. just today.. throw in tomorrow as well.

i enjoyed yesterday. haha i finally got to meet up with hilary and na after a LONG LONG time. jubilate was not exactly worth my FIFTEEN DOLLARS + FIVE on the cab + SIX at KFC. but i had fun :)

i arranged to meet hil at kallang mrt at 6.30, i reached there at 6.35. called her and she said she would be there in five minutes. so i waited, and then she called to tell me she was at the KFC near kallang theatre. great. then i spent ten minutes trying to find a way there. with no help from the control room person, i eventually decided to take a taxi. there went my $5.

i remember the random cheers we gave.

john: GO MARY!
andy, bernard, hilary starts laughing
john: GO HILARY!
*gets hit by hilary :)

reminds me of jubilate last year, ha. oh well, at least i got the car ride from jana to bishan after the thing. if not i would have been perma-stuck at kallang.

PLAYED SOCCER TODAY AT THE DEE WITH AN INBA- TEAM. me, matt, yanhan and john wong against josh, paul, wilbur, st, jhan and kenneth. thats 4v6. one would have expected us to get owned upside down, but no we merely lost :D but it was a good game nonetheless. the sun's been super irritating and hot this past few days.

ah wells, homework time.

just to remind you again..



I'M AN ANTI-FLAG FAN!

and totti scores a last minute penalty to put italy through. what drama :D this world cup is getting exciting.

ANTI-FLAG! i'm an ANTI-FLAG FAN! i want to buy their CD, but i'm not sure whether they have them at the local store, ah wells i shall try citilink mall tomorrow.

england seriously disappoint. what kind of beautiful game are they playing. its this type of game that i seriously regret spending 90 minutes on. on the contrary, beckham's free kicks OWN :D

England 1-0 Ecuador

school re-opens today! i haven't cut my hair and my tail and i have prefect fall-in in 6 hours! i want longer holidays! its not fair.. i miss children's camp and yf retreat.. and church camp and everything else :(

One trillion dollars could buy a lot of bling
One trillion dollars could buy most anything
One trillion dollars buying bullets, buying guns
One trillion dollars in the hands of killers, thugs

Woah-oh-oh woah-oh woah-oh-oh-oh
* the world, a lot of people gotta die tonight
Woah-oh-oh woah-oh woah-oh
* the world,
* 'em all

One trillion dollars to Africa, Iraq
One trillion dollars and it's never coming back
One trillion dollars could buy some bad-ass drugs
One trillion dollars makes me wanna kill myself

Woah-oh-oh woah-oh woah-oh-oh-oh
* the world, a lot of people gotta die tonight
Woah-oh-oh woah-oh woah-oh
* the world, yeah, yeah
* 'em all

Until the sun burns from the sky
Until the sun burns so bright this world is no more
Sun burns from the sky...
And all the people are just dust on the ground

One trillion dollars could buy a heart, a soul
One trillion dollars buying nations - all the world
One trillion dollars could make the fat lady sing
One trillion dollars, what a bullshit useless thing

Woah-oh-oh woah-oh woah-oh-oh-oh
* the world, a lot of people gotta die tonight
Woah-oh-oh woah-oh woah-oh-oh-oh
* the world, a lot of people gotta die tonight
Woah-oh-oh woah-oh woah-oh-oh-oh
Shit loads of money spent will show us wrong from right
* the world
* 'em all

i'm an anti-flag fan.

my dad just got a 9300i!! its a complex phone, like his last one, and the previous, and the one before.. WHEN AM I GOING TO GET A NEW PHONE? i don't like my n-gage no more, not because its big or anything, its laggy compared to when i first bought it, and it hangs on me all the time!

not at yf today 'cos i'm pretty much sick. oh well, at least i have you dear computer :)

I'M BACK FROM GUITAR CAMP!

well it wasn't as fun as i expected it to be. but i still enjoyed it to a certain extent. soccer was great, as always. and the dvd player shao wei took from the mep room proved to be our sole form of entertainment :)

i dislike being made a leader! especially being daoed by the girls in my group on the first day :D oh my they are super shy laa. and sectionals went horibbly quiet, cos i didn't know what to do when balraj left.

haha and it was junipher's birthday yesterday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUNIPHER! you will never guess what her friends bought her from the cold storage at kap. where are the moral values man?! are we not from methodist institutions, i remember saying.

i had yw rehearsal yesterday. and i was paired with daryl and his US$3700 custom-made guitar :D

right now. i'm trying to finish my homework.

OFF TO GUITAR CAMP I GO!

'And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.' Revelation 19:6

i'm back from church camp! now where shall i start. from the true yet inexplicable prophecies, to the stayovers at night to watch the world cup. from the taupok on my bed, to the lanning at the nearby shopping mall, i have no idea where to start. see thats the problem with me, i'm not the draggy sentimental type yet i'm still charming XD. oh what the crap.

maybe i shall do a replicate of my children's camp experience! list out 10 of the most memorable experiences at camp! HEAR I GO :D

1) most important: Feeling God's presence throughout the camp :) sounds kinda cliche. but seriously, yes i felt it, no i felt HIM.

2) saying 'WHAT THE CRAP!' every few seconds XD

3) watching the czech vs USA match at 12am on monday night. the exhilaration i felt after watching TOMAS ROSICKY score 2 for the czechs! he's going to be a great offensive midfielder and playmaker next season for ARSENAL!! once again i applaud arsene wenger's amazing vision.

4) getting taupok on my bed. samuel, marcus, andrew and jeremy came over to my room to watch the world cup, then before i knew it i was thrown onto my bed by sam. what could i do.. samuel, marcus, andrew, jeremy, peter, mark, matthaes, benlee and ben on me. ouch :D

5) LAN! i played 7 DotA games altogether. and i won SIX! woohoo! *hyperventilates. i remember the last match against the '89 gang: andrew, sam, edric, theodore and joshua. they had their whole game plan sorted out nicely, whereas me, marcus, benlee, ben and matthaes hardly knew what was going on. i took the mid lane with clinz and matthaes' razor, guess who was at the mid lane too.. sam with keeper of the light and edric with prophet! what the crap two pushers.. cos we were playing -apem they pushed down our two mid lane towers in less than 10 minutes! THEY WERE OWNING. i was trying my best to save up for a desolator, and when i finally got it, the tide was turned. I eventually got two DOUBLE KILLS and DOMINATING! before andrew and gang ran out of play time. oh man how i wished the game could have continued. for all those who have no understanding of what i'm talking about, don't bother trying XD

6) the deep fried sotong on wednesday lunch if i remember correctly! tastes just like old chang kee.. DELICIOUS!

7) lending my guitar to every single person who knew how to play the guitar in camp. well not exactly, but almost all. that includes pastor eddie! not that i'm complaining but now i have fingerprints all over my guitar :( however, i did get many compliments for my choice of guitar :D

8) getting called ADORABLE and CUTE REPEATEDLY by jeannette. oh am i flattered XD

9) getting called UNCLE JOHN XD credits to my sister :D

10) watching CARS at the local cinema for 5RM! thats less than S$2.50!! Whee. plus there were NOOO advertisements at all before the movie started!

done :D

'He which testifieth this things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.' Revelation 22:19-20

this entry is for the later part of today..

while watching x-men 2 on channel 5, i plugged in my new acoustic guitar to my line6 amplifier. and guess what, i can distort my acoustic until like siao! and the feedback is woohoO! and so i was glued to my guitar and distortion for almost the rest of the movie while my brother turned up the tv volume to match my noise level :D

AND FINALLY.. SEE ALL YOU NICE PEOPLE SOON :D:D:D

.. and off to church camp i go. it seems appropriate the title of camp The 2nd Coming of Christ when we'r doing revelations in yd now.

it really struck me that if the second coming of Christ happens during the next century, i wouldn't know how to react when it starts. well if i knew it was going to happen, the first thing i'd do is to start praying. the tribulations and the rise of the anti-christ seriously scared me, but who wouldn't?

what happened at church today wasn't exactly as i had planned. hmm, i arrived at 9 only to realise there wasn't yd today, which would mean napping in the yd room for an hour and a half. i then had to play guitar for my mum who was teaching the p5s, but alas i couldn't find my guitar which was supposed to be in the clubhouse brandon took it!.. so i ended up leading the p5s in worship without instrumental accompaniment which was kinda awkward..

john: i'll count to 3, then we start singing.. 1.. 2.. 3..
-silence.. for about 5 seconds-
john: okie nevermind i'll start singing then you'll just follow on. G-O-D IS L-O..

which reminds me, BRANDON HASN'T RETURNED ME MY ARSENAL AWAY JERSEY which i lent him during childrens camp when he had no clean top to change into. great.

on a lighter and happier note, i got my acoustic guitar!! FINALLIIIIIEEEEYYYY XD

john's a guitar head.

haha to be truthful, i have no idea what a guitar head is. it just sounds cool, don't you think? i finished the new layout in an hour!

john's a guitar head.

I'm back from retreat, tired but refreshed!

I'm back from children's camp and off to yf retreat I go for another four days and three nights.

I'm starting to realise the inadequate time I have left to STUDY, PRACTISE PIANO, STUDY, PRACTISE PIANO, STUDY, PRACTISE PIANO, DO HOMEWORK, FINISH HOMEWORK, PLAY SOCCER, STUDY, PRACTISE PIANO!

Children's camp was tiring, but I think I enjoyed it. No wait, I know I enjoyed it :) I'm not the type who spams about my experiences, i was, but I'm going to trace back some of the vague but sweet and impactful recollects:

1) The hours I spent at night other than sleeping. The two hours with Sarah on the first night: She thought and insisted that the flying things in the trees were birds, when clearly they were bats, and NO birds don't sleep at night :) The two hours I spent with Andrew on the second night: It eventually turned into a music lesson. I let him listen to John Petrucci and proceeded to teach him the major and minor scale. That took two hours :)

2) The number of tables and chairs I moved. I would say probably a little over 200 chairs and 30 tables.

3) Calling Serene a hippo XD

4) My rants with Brandon, which either ended up in an arm lock or a wrist lock or a cripplers crossface. But still the rants went on.. :D

5) Trying to get iBob's hands off me.

6) The trolley ride from charles down to the prata store at Serangoon Garden Circus.

7) The deep graze I got from slipping on the wet floor trying to hit Andrew with the water bomb. It still hurts at the hip, and my right elbow is still leaking pus :(

8) The p3 girls who approached me during night games. Their proclamation of God being so powerful and loving touched me. 'God is SOO great you know, he even knows how many hairs you have on your hand you know!' (proceeds on to hold up my hand) I just can't forget :D

9) Andrew's Tianmo XD

10) Cleaning the children's dishes and cups with Tracie and Sarah. We all ended up drenched :)

So much for not spamming..