1If I speak in the tonguesa of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,b but have not love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
As the day breaks, my time of returning my pink IC slowly creeps in… While I am waiting for my time to come, I found some time to blog. Let talk about my last day as a civilian.
I woke up yesterday with my mum’s intention of going to pui tian to eat our brunch, together with my 2 brothers. It’s seems like an holiday as it’s quite rare to see both of them home during a weekday. The lunch was quite good with good sweet and sour pork and many other unique dishes. I was also surprised that my PAssion card finally came to good use with a 10% to it. The not so good part about the lunch was my mum fell down again while walking from our parking area, but luckily it was just minor abrasion.
When I got home, the effect of sleepiness after lunch starts to kick in. Believing that it’s the last day of “freedom”, I went off to sleep for the next few hours till I had enough of it. That’s most certainly enjoyable
Thereafter, I started my engine and start packing my clothes and stuff that’s required for NS. The whole process took quite a long while with many difficulties finding some of the stuff which are kept out of sight. Finally, I finished packing at around 1am, then slept at 2am.
Now, it’s 6.49am with me squeezed into my uniform. Had some trouble just know with the sleeves as there’s lots of difficulty trying to squeeze my fat arm in. Here are some aim I wish to accomplish during my time in NS.
Slim down till I can fit into my uniform comfortably
Dearie just reminded me that I have neglected my blog for quite sometime. Well, I shall blog more often then..
The month of June has been a hectic one. Almost no time to sit back relax and reflect on myself. Just a brief summary since the last time I blogged, I have had 2 BB Camps, 2 performances and many practices. Also, I went to JB to do some shopping. (Oh man… after weeks of not blogging, I seem to find it difficult to traspose thoughts into words.)
5 more days before I have to hand over my pink IC once again. I will be enlisting back into army once again to complete my service that I owed them in order to start my University studies on time. This is how my uniform looks like on the day I disrupted my service, since then there are many changes to the uniform with more things to sew on, and now they have changed the entire uniform all together.
I wonder how is life going to be in army. Although I wanted to slim down before I enlist, I haven’t much to train up other than occasional soccer and once in the blue moon run. I do still feel unfit and hope that they will have mercy on me and not torture.. haha..
Just as many of you would have thought that I am like another Brandon Choo that stop blogging due to laziness or nothing to write about life then YOU ARE WRONG!! haha.. no offence Brandon, due sue me..
It has been over a month since I last update my blog. Life after uni isn’t boring at all. In fact, I have activites back to back to keep me so occupied that I feel so tired. I have been keeping myself busy with various FB games such as Resturant City, BeJeweled Blitz, Farm Town, Mafia Wars and new addicted Scrabble!! Other than that, I have been practicing and teaching piping at various (actually only two lah, nothing great), done a various of performances for BB’s Awards Presentation Ceremony aka 红星大奬, Jeremiah’s Wedding and so on… On top of that, I have my 12BR June Fun Camp and upcoming Band Camp where I get my opportunity to play soccer and exercise!! Last but not the least, I get to go out shopping and overseas with dearie…
For the past 1 month, I have chopped my passport twice. Once to Phuket and the other to JB (shopping). Phuket wasn’t as fun as I thought it would be, probably due to some bad experiences such as losing my specs, expensive stuffs, kenna fine by the idiotic woman for being less than 30 mins late to check out… I am still quite sore about it…
I find myself quite tired mentally these days, feel abit depressed. Sometimes I just need something to make me happier, but can’t seem to get excited about anything. I thought to myself that if I keep myself quiet and come into contact with a single person, I will probably get so depress and kill myself… but not to worry, I am not going to it..
It’s great to play pipes. Teaching and seeing my students improve, playing exciting repertoires, listen to myself playing laments… Recently, 12BR Pipe Band managed to stage a good performance with exciting repertoire. Although technically we are still not very competent, we are working on it!! I am still searching for any type of interesting repertoire for my band to play, if anybody manage to come across it, feel free to leave me a comment..
Happy 38th month dearie.. it’s our 3 years and 2 mths being together. There are good times and bad times… let’s hope that we shall make use of these times together to understand each other better.. Hope that we have many many many more months to come too…
Alright.. it’s late in the evening…. I shall go to bed now.. and yes.. I feel wonderful tonight…
Are some of you out there wondering how it feels without any school work to worry about, what subjects to take next sem and etc? I can tell you that it feels very GOOD!! haha..
These days, I work up without worrying about the assignments I need to do and so on. What makes me feel better is that I am not aiming to get good grades to get any honours, which means there’s no disappointment when there’s no expectation. I am almost certain that I would pass my core modules, only that I might fail my business modules that will cost me my minor. However, I can’t turn back time to redo my exams, so why worry so much now, enjoy man!!
So what am I doing these days?? I am enjoying life, but not really slacking… I have started cleaning my room with the fan and cupboard. Managed to set aside some clothes to throw and give away. Occasionally, I will go with either with dearie or friends. Oh.. almost forgot, I am also practicing hard on my chanter and pipes to become better!! I managed to record some scottish favourites over last weekend with Brandon and Nicklaus.
I think that’s all that I have been doing. Will slowly expore more stuff to do before I enter army!
Just as you some of you would think that I’m going to abandon my blog due to laziness, I’M BACK!! Back to share more of my life with you. Finally blogged after completing my exams and majority of the presentation preperation of the FYP presentation. Just a wee bit of improvements required to it.
Today, I’m here just to share some of thoughts in my mind, rather that update about my life. Just I am thinking of how I should present my thoughts, I wondered if I should either bullet my different thoughts, number it, or should I just write like an essay. This makes me wonder since there are many ways of leading a life, so why am I doing what I’m doing now? Also, what life am I leading exactly? And, what do I want to achieve in my life? As there are so many things to think about in this secular world, I suppose I will continue to lead what my hearts wants me to be, and hopefully I can be the person God wants me to be.
As you can see, I have already started my thoughts in form of an essay, I shall continue with it. Sometimes, life is not in questions and answers form and also not in point form. I wonder do we need to do a presentation to God after we pass on. In front of God where we tell Him about the things we have done in life. Ha.. just a random thought.
Yesterday (Sunday), I came across a thick file of transparencies containing songs of worship that was used for BB parades. Remembering those joyful days where we sing praises to God not in a comfortable aircon room, nor with state-of-the-art (or not so) projector and laptop to project the lyrics on the screens. A simple classroom with pre-arranged chairs by the duty squad, 1 or 2 guitarist, and a worship leader had done the job, uniting us in one voice. It was fun those days, especially for me since I quite like singing, with easy lyrics and catchy tunes, sometimes with action too!! It was certainly great to see those and I started singing some of those that were familar to me. I thought to myself, maybe I should lead worship either during parades or officers’ fellowship, singing these classics. Actually, I have these thoughts for quite sometime, but for many reasons, I haven’t yet to put it into action, such as shy, busy and etc. Well, I’m not sure if I will ever have the chance to share these songs with anybody else, but hope that someday I can, even it’s for only one person. I have included a YouTube video of one of my favourite songs. The verse and chorus can harmonise!! Enjoy.
Talking about YouTube, I think that it’s probably the best internet tool after search engines. I feel that I have improved as a piper musically just through the exposure of YouTube. Get to know more pipe tunes, more types of music besides bagpipe, more techniques and more. Looking at others sharing of knowledge, music, life and more makes me want to put up more videos on it!! I am might consider to invest in a good video camera and the mighty H2. haha… But all these will come after I find a job ba… BTW, I strongly recommend you to check out YouTube Symphony, which gathers majority of its musicians through YouTube auditions and staged a performance on Carnegie Hall. Quality stuff.
Some say that as you graduate, it means that you have just became jobless. Especially during recession, it would be difficult to find a job, let alone a well paid one. Right now, I am not looking for one aggressively, but keeping a look out in the industry of my interest, Product Design. FYI, I should have a Bachelor Degree in Materials Science and Engineering in July and product design is not really related to my field of study. Mechnical Engineering or Industrial Design graduates would be more suitable. Well, I am interested in this field because I am always facinated with how new products are developed, how simple toothbrush evolved, how products are mass produced and so on. My course have given me an introduction on these and interest is developed, however they did not really equip me with the necessary skills to get into this field as I think we (Materials Engineer) are meant to do other stuff. All I can say is that in order for me to excel in what I am doing, I have to have an interested and eventually passion for it. I am starting to think about ways to equip myself to get into this industry before and during my re-enlistment to army. A starter will be learning CAD or/and soildworks, which is essential in this field. Thereafter, I may learn and develop a portfolio of my ideas and drawings that might come in handy during job applications. If anybody out there with such experiences can educate me, please let me know what I can do to get a product design job. Utimately, I think that all degrees are the same, most of the things you learnt in your 4 years of study will probably be useless to your career. What universities teaches you is the resourcefulness in obtaining information and problem solving.
Received my re-enlistment letter sometime back. Argh.. can’t find it now to share with you what it says. But it roughly talks about me reporting to my unit’s S1 department on 1st July 09 in No. 4. I hope I will be able to squeeze into my uniform by then. I will be working on reducing weight and keeping fit, as I will be required to run as fast as I used to during PT (which is not very fast because I was never a fast runner). If anyone of you out there (that I know) feels like swimming, gymming or any other form of sports, please “jio” me, I will gladly join you if I am free and not feeling lazy. Also, I have signed with the the NTU Alumni Club recently with a year of subscription for only $100. In the mean time, I would want to fully utilize the facilities there so that I can shed some weight.
Alright, that’s a very long post that takes quite me quite awhile to write. God Bless…
Thank you Dearie for everything that you have given. I thank God for providing me with a person that loves me so much. Happy 3rd Year!! Jia you for this exams!!
After day and night of study over the past few days, I have finally saturated myself with disorganised knowledge. Which means, I still have lots of studying to do to “organise” the things I have studied so that I can remember. This is my last examination season, at least for awhile before I intend to further my studies. 5 more exams to go over a period of 9 days, with more than half of it ocurring over the next 2 days. It’s so tiring to know that you have 3 exams in a row, and certainly stratigic planning on text to study and time to sleep plays an important role in surviving.
Here’s my examination schedule:
16 Apr 09, 9am – 11am -> MS4003
16 Apr 09, 5pm – 7pm -> MB215
17 Apr 09, 2.30pm – 4.30pm -> MS4503
20 Apr 09, 9am – 11am -> MS4030
24 Apr 09, 9am – 11am -> MS4555
Don’t ask me what’s the name of the subjects, because I only know them by code. As for the content, I am starting to mix up what I have learnt in individual sujects with each other. Ultimately, the fundamentals are almost the same and I believe that as long as you provide a logical answer, you will get some of the marks.
I do not have ambitious aim, I only crave for a pass and graduate with a degree. Alright, enough of blogging, back to the “battle”.
I have been quite sway these days. Last week, I left a supposedly water resistant addias watch on the basin over night, and the LCD screen numbers went very fade to my horror. Ended up, I have to open up the back over and dry it over a day before closing and wearing it again. I wonder is it because the salesgirl back at city chain not screwing the back cover properly when I changed the battery.
Yesterday, I went for a performance (I’ll tell you more about it another day) at swissotel at Raffles City. While changing out of my kilts after the performance, I forgot I placed my phone over my vest, and when I was just grabbing any clothes I see there to put in my bag, the phone fell into the toilet. Luckily, the bowl auto-flushed after the peed few minutes ago… haha.. Because of that, my phone don’t smell like my pee.. haha.. When I got home, I quickly open up the shell and start drying any part that I see, and tried switching on again. It died after a few seconds. Thank God, the phone is working fine now. I suppose the inner parts are dried.
Today afternoon, I appointed myself as the stand-in Drum Major for the band for enrolment parade, after knowing that Kenneth is involved in the Geography Competition (I wonder how are they going to compete man!!) Just as I was having fun, it started raining… and best part of all, Raymond did not tell us to get to the shade!! Being a “professional” Drum Major, I must not allow myself nor my band to leave the parade square without instructions. We ended up suffering in the rain for the next few minutes before he come to realised that the rain will not stop so soon. I was drenched.. so were the drums… hope that parts will dry naturally and not get rust…
That’s all for my wet wet experiences… will tell you all more about my birthday experiences soon…
Just took out the dusty weighing machine below my bed and weighed myself. The figure surely doesn’t look good as it stands at 94.4kg.
I was suppose to study for my quiz tomorrow but as usual, I will only buck up at the 11th hour no matter how much I tried convincing myself to prepare early. So I did the normal routine; wake up, eat, study abit, nap, wake up, eat…. etc etc. However, today is very different. I suddenly felt like running. Actually this is not the only time that I felt like running, but the difference today is I ran! The main reason was because of the warm weather making me feeling sticky, so I thought to myself, “why don’t I just have a good exercise to purge those fats out of my body?” Hahaha…
Running is so boring. Many said that during a run, they can have time to think about things, but not for me. My mind is more preoccupied with, “oh man.. how long more??” Finally, I cannot take the tiredness and stoped after running just a mere 1km. That is so sad. The “Wey Shi” that used to be able to complete a half marathon only ran a miserable 1km today. To make matters worst, I have to go back to army in a few months time.
On the other hand, I managed to get myself to run. I think it was more than 6 months since I last ran, not counting the futsal games. I suppose it was a good start and hopefully I can continue to exercise.
I shall give myself a goal. That is to get back my fitness in a 3 months time. My aims shall be:
Shed 10 kg.
Pass my ippt 2.4km run.
Actually I want to set more aims like doing 5 chin-ups but let’s be realistic. I am not even sure if I have the time to exercise as exams are coming.
Okay, I shall start looking for my swimming trunks and goggles and swim as often as I can for the next 2 weeks. Hope I can do it.
