Fitness tips, memories, and thoughts. Its freddilicious! xD

2010-07-20T22:40:00.002+08:00

moved again to http://fredicallyfantastic.weebly.com
(:

Maybe its time to move on

2010-07-18T19:06:00.001+08:00

Created a new blog

http://ohitsyou.weebly.com

url might change so don't delete this link off yet.

2010-07-11T16:51:00.003+08:00

i am really tired to blog much but....

ITS GREAT TO BE BACK!!! (: (: (:

you have no idea how much i missed y'all!

like really really

like seriously

but its all good now again

then i realized we are getting old

and starting to leave

one by one

but while the good times last

let 'em ROLL

(EQ is exactly as you imagine it to be. Institute is funnnn. Friends are just the bomb)

and i hope you you and you are looking at this. because yes i was talking about you (:

2010-06-19T12:59:00.000+08:00

I wanted to start this section this for a longgggg time but the push came from Marion's profile update "I need to lose weight" and so on Facebook and my blog

, I shall unravel the do's and don'ts of weight lost and healthy living (: You are tagged in this because you might have shown interest in this topic in the past, or you are a pro in this area and can share your experience and advice (that will also be added onto my blog). Whatever category you are in, leave comments on what you want to know. And OF COURSE! Share this information with others.

(All information obtained from my study of sports science and psychology, from my 2 coaches, and from research and personal experience.)

When it comes to dieting, everyone wants to be a loser. But only 10 percent of people who manage to drop pounds also manage never to see them again. But how do you keep those numbers down? The successful losers didn't turn to wacky eating plans or fad diets. In fact many people successfully lose weight, but adopt changes that hurt their body internally. Instead, what really works is common sense- modification of diet and increased physical activity to change caloric balance.
The following posts will be dedicated to showing you how to do just that.

Lets start talking first about food portions.

So! If you can count 3,2,1, then you are more or less ready to go.
3 part Carbs, 2 part protein, 1 part fat.
This is the healthy ratio that you should keep for your meals.

However make sure you select carbs that have a low GI and high fiber. Carbs with low Glycemic Index rating and high fiber content would give you a greater sense of fullness meaning you will not feel hungry so often (as much as possible, ensure that you have at least 34grams of fiber daily). Such carb options include Quinoa, beans, bown rice. Remember, as much as possible, stay away from white rice, white bread etc. White flour=bleached flour=unnatural=not good. So stick with the natural wheat and wholemeal stuff.

Lets just skip right on to fats. Yes fats are ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY! But there are healthy fats, and there are unhealthy fats. A GREAT example of healthy fats are nuts.
I honestly think this is fascinating. Eat nuts 5 times or more a week and you reduce your chance of getting a heart disease by about 60%. It is also found that people who eat nuts tend to become thinner. On top of that, if you eat nuts 5 times a week, add 2.5 years to your life! AMAZING ain't it? But what then are the best nuts to eat. Research says that almonds are. Almonds are high in protein and heart friendly (: Try getting those natural ones. If you must, roast them. They taste good that way. Make sure your almonds have a low salt content though (:

So that's it for this 1st post. More on weight lost, nutrition and healthy living coming right up! Stay tuned!

2010-05-20T11:18:00.000+08:00

Tell me its a miracle. I got caught in a storm while biking to school. my laptop got wet, my books soaked, my money crumpling apart now but my temple recommend does not have a drop of water on it at all.
AMAZING

3,2,1

2010-05-14T21:04:00.006+08:00

Combined shanghai-beijing district youth conference 2010!

Finally the tests are over. WHOOHOOO! all the AP tests. whee.
So finally back to blogging. Nutrition. Food intake. We talked about what to eat now we will talk about how much to eat.
If you can countdown 3,2,1 then you are more or less ready to go.

3 part carbs, 2 part protein, 1 part fat. This should be your intake of food in that proportion. Of course ensure that you have an almost equal proportion of veg. and fruits as you have carbohydrates. Lets talk abit about why these proportions.

Well physiologically speaking, your body can do without carbs. All it really needs for energy are protein and fats. Yet, it is advised that we eat more carbs. WHy? Carbs are easy to digest. And in our fast paced life, we need food that we can process fast, food that can give us energy fast. Thats why we load up on carbs. Its not the healthiest food (in fact, the nutrition per gram value that carbs give is the lowest of almost all food) but we are asked all the same to ensure we have a high portion of carbs. But since we need carbs, what kind of carbs should we consume. I'm rather sure our diet revolves around white rice, white bread etc. The thing is that white rice is white and white flour is white because it has been polished, bleached and processed. In other words, most nutrients are removed. Healthier option of carbs include Quinoa, brown rice, wholemeal bread etc.

and so how often should we eat? It is good to eat 6 times a day. 3 main meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner. 3 snacks in between each meal. Try to eat something every 2 hours. Your body needs food. If it doesn't get the energy it needs, it will go into starvation mode. Starvation mode means that the next time you eat, the food will be converted into fats in preparation for another starvation run. This is why breakfast is the most important meal. Not because its in the morning -.- its because your body has gone (hopefully) 9hrs without food. say you skip breakfast and eat lunch only at 12, your body would have gone about 14hrs without food. that=MEGA starvation=MEGA fats as your body moves into starvation mode.

When should you stop eating then? Some people say that after 8pm they won't eat anything else. Is it good or bad? Starvation mode right? Well in all honesty it depends on your activity level. Not just physical activity, but mental activity too. Bottom line, if you eat more, make sure you work as much (: I eat after 8pm. yes yes that buttered popcorn (which on its own without butter is actually healthy heh) and Lord of the Rings movie xD but i make sure I work it all off and only do that once in a blueeeee moon.

I know i just scratched the surface briefly. But these are the 3 things i touched on in this post:
1) Get your proportions right.
2) The more processed it is, the less nutrients there are
3) Eat regularly.
4) Eat what you burn, burn what you eat!
I will revisit these topics in more detail soon.

2010-05-09T21:10:00.000+08:00

eh you.

i've posted

(:

i kid.

it's coming

2010-04-25T22:10:00.003+08:00

so this week has been a rather power packed one. this month actually was awesome. Where should I start.
Last weekend there was Youth Conference! Combined Beijing Shanghai District Conference was rather awesome. Met some cool people.
Like Marissa Cox. Her dad is the Branch President of the Beijing Branch and he used to live in Singapore because his dad used to be a mission president in the 1970s. Then theres Jonathan a Venezuelan dude who bunked with me. Spoke very little english. Off to serve his mission in less than a month. Awesome testimony.
Then found that SIngapore person living in Shanghai. lol. Kimberly. small world no?

THen there was the Acoustic at Andes gig on tuesday. great experience, great turnout. sang the songs i wanted to~made the jokes i wanted to. album would be burned soon i think. i guess. i hope.

To round of the awesomeness, took part in the All China Gaelic and Rugby Championship on saturday. I was the youngest player. lol. got into the semi-finals tho so that was good. In one game this dude was super mad at me coz he claimed i tackled him to rough. but pleaseee. he was like 2 heads taller than me can...but good run. had a great run with my team.

well...parents are going a little cranky. i'll update more tomorrow!

2010-04-18T22:44:00.004+08:00

(:
to my good-ol'-buddy-as-good-as-a-sister of a friend

it was nice calling you today
even for that few minutez
yes it was very much the random
and yes i got cut off (gotta top up card again)

have a greaaaaat week back at school
(:

Some random cool stuff~(Part 2)

2010-04-04T22:10:00.003+08:00

This is the equivalent of Kandace's temporary post. Minus the cool picture. and Minus the intellectual banter. haha

Something cool learned today in church again. It wasn't the nails that kept Christ on the cross. It was His pure love for us. In Heaven, God asked for someone to be our Savior. Christ got chosen. He was to suffer for our sins and did so in the garden of Gethsemane. But in the end, He also suffered for all our ailments, illnesses, sadness, heartaches, pains...EVEN THOUGH that wasn't part of the contract that he agreed to in Heaven. He decided to suffer it for us. So that instead of just redeeming us. He can now put His arms around us. And say to us. Be of good cheer. I have suffered even as thee. Be of good cheer. It soon shall pass.

Doctrine and Covenants 122:8 "The Son of Man hath descended below them all. Art thou greater than he?"

I used to be confused over this scripture. If He is below all, how can He be greater than us. Received this thought halfway through class today. Because He descended below all things, because He experienced everything. He knows how to help us rise above out daily difficulties. There is now no human problem beyond his capability to solve.

In army terms, Christ went beyond his call of duty. He is a true example of servant leadership.
This is just a thought for this Easter Season. (:

coming up~
Ancient China and the Gospel
Significance of the Passover: Its symbols. The meanings. All from an ex-Jew turned LDS.
Significance of the plagues: Why were frogs sent. Was it random...
Fitness nutrition post

Some random cool stuff~(Part 1)

2010-03-29T08:31:00.003+08:00

Take a look at the Old Testament. You will see that there is Lord and LORD. whats the difference? LORD refers to Jehovah. Lord refers to Elohim or Heavenly Father. Cool? So now when you read Genesis and the creation, use this new info. I suggest looking at Isiah 6 too. You can see the 2 kinds of Lord there. That explains why some churches think the Father and the Son are one.
Just a little tidbit of info. There will be one more such tidbit~then the fitness tip for this week. I've gotta blog bout my time back in Singapore too. Will get to it soon (:

Extend your life span with these...

2010-03-10T09:52:00.008+08:00

I am proud of my nation. Proud of the sports team that we have. And so when I read of the slackness in the National Team. I got mad. Overslept? Smoking in the locker room at half-time? Really mad. Put aside professionalism. I don't care if you don't have that. You are wearing my county's color. So please. Live up to it.
This is the picture of the jetty at Survivor Island Sabah. I loved to sit out on the hammock out on the jetty. It was so relaxing.

What you do has a great impact on who you are. But often times, people make choices out of ignorance. Out of a lack of information. They make choices for all the wrong reasons. Today I'm going to list out some choices and how they can influence your life. These tips can not only help you to loose weight, but be healthy overall, increasing your life span as a result.!

1) Becoming a vegetarian = I have great admiration for vegetarians. How they manage to abstain from meat I have no idea. (But yet again people wonder how I can abstain from coffee & alcohol etc. so may it isn't much of a surprise.) Being a vegan can help reduce your risk of having heart diseases. However, it does not mean you will become slimmer. On the contrary, many vegans tend to put on more weight (An interesting phenomenon, I'll be searching on why this is the case). Here is the thing I want to highlight. Being a vegan can increase your life span by about 1.5 years. Keep this number in mind as we compare other choices and how many years they increase your life span by.

2) Having a normal Body Mass Index (BMI) = Having a normal height to weight ratio would mean that you are keeping your fats under control! So you don't have to worry that you are fat. Achieve this? Add about 2 years to your life!

3) Having and following an exercise program = HAVE and FOLLOW an exercise program. Again~find something that you like to do. Remember. If you want to lose weight, each session must be 30mins long with your HR over 65%.
If you want to be healthy~15minutes, 3 times a week, at least 65% of your HR. Daily, you must walk AT LEAST 10,000 steps. This is the minimum requirement to BE healthy. Really. Minimum. So walk that extra step to the bus stop. Park a little farther from the entrance of the grocery store. Do this, and add 2.5 years to your life.

4) Eating Nuts = I honestly think this is fascinating. There are bad fats, and there are good fats. Nuts are packed with good fats that can stimulate brain activity among other things! Incorporate nuts into your diet. Eat nuts 5 times or more a week and you reduce your chance of getting a heart disease by about 60%. It is found that people who eat nuts tend to become thinner. Eat nuts regularly? Add 2.5 years to your life! AMAZING ain't it? But what then are the best nuts to eat. Research says that almonds are. Almonds are high in protein and heart friendly (: Try getting those natural ones. If you must, roast them. They taste good that way. Make sure your almonds have a low salt content. Why? Read on to find out.

5) Have a normal blood pressure = Maintain a normal blood pressure and add approximately 4 years to your life! How do you do that? Cut back on those salts. Want chips? Get it lightly salted. Cook with less salt. Once you consume salt your blood pressure takes a HUGE jump each time. A high blood pressure means that your heart has to, and is working harder than what it should and that is bad.

6) Do not smoke = Just to keep things even, I'm writing a number 6. If you are not a smoker, you add AT LEAST 2.5 years to your health. Hurray for us Mormons. heh

So it is interesting to note how being a vegan apparently has the least impact on your life. But so lets sum it up. 4 things (I'm not gonna add in being a vegan), and that would add on approx. 13.5years to your life. I hardly need to tell you that 13.5 years is a heck of a long time more that you will be breathing. So start changing your life today. Hope you follow these tips. And as a suggestion, start small. The easiest thing is to ADD things onto your diet so up that nuts intake as a start (: small steps! cheers!
In the next few sections I'll be jumping even deeper, giving more suggestions on nutrition.

p.s. A bodybuilding section is gonna be coming up soon!

Phobias

2010-03-03T20:57:00.001+08:00

So I'm doing a seminar on anxiety disorders and phobia is one of 'em. So I went to search for videos of phobias and this is just HILARIOUS. give it a watch!

you are what you eat...(broken my PR for push-ups and chin-ups)

2010-03-02T12:43:00.007+08:00

I think this picture is epic. This is taken in Sabah, Malaysia. It is on an island where they filmed the very first Survivor series. So there is this mud volcano that we visited and the teacher threw out a dare. Who dares to submerge them-self fully in the mud. And so. hah. yar the picture speaks for itself.

So I am rather confused. Psychology ain't helping. I'm supposed to be able to read minds and behaviors but I can't read that person's. I learnt about how to analyze dreams but I REFUSE to accept what my dreams are telling me.

As I said, I will blog a little about weight loss via watching one's diet. I'll go one step further and talk about healthy eating as a whole.
So I think we know by now that the thing that girls do~not eating lunch or wtvr~they call that dieting, I call that starvation~that is really unhealthy and doesnt really do much to help you lose weight. To be healthy, and to lose weight, small, regular balanced meals are the best. Why?

Say you ate dinner, but skipped breakfast the next morning. Do that a few more times and this is what would happen. Your body recognizes that it would not get food in the morning. Thus after dinner, the body automatically moves into "starvation mode". What happens then is that your dinner would not be digested entirely. Instead, the body stores the food as fats so that it can be used the next day when you skip breakfast. So REGULAR MEALS important. This ensures a regular and constant metabolism that will effectively digest the food so that you get enough energy, and the food does not get stored as fats.

So thats a little about healthy eating, much more will be coming up. Tips on HOW to eat, WHAT to eat, and the BENEFITS that you would enjoy.

Personality Test from a Freudian Psychoanalytic Approach. Try it! (:

2010-02-23T23:33:00.001+08:00

This test follows Freudian Psychoanalytic Approach. 10 questions that is designed to help explain your personality. According to Freud, it works. According to me~well you'll see.
Answer these questions. Don't peek at the end...Post it if you like~but you might want to keep it to yourself. Why? Your personality should be first understood by you yourself FIRST. Plus, well...you'll see why else. So here goes

1) You are walking in the woods. Who are you walking with?
2) You continue walking and you meet an animal. What animal is it?
3) Is there any interaction between you and the animal?
4) Keep walking. You reach a clearing in the woods. You see a house. Your dream house. Describe its size?
5) Is there a fence around it?
6) You walk into the house. Go through the corridor to the dining room. Describe your dining room?
7) Walk across the dining room and exit your house via the back door. You see a cup on the floor in the backyard. What is the cup made up off?
8) What do you do with the cup?
9) You walk on further and see a body of water behind the backyard of your house. What body of water is this?
10) You want to get across this body of water. How do you do so?
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What do your answers say about your personality? These are general answers. If you wish more more specific interpretations, feel free to ask (:
1) The person/people you are walking with are the most important to you currently right now in your life
2) The size of the animal represents the challenges you are currently facing.
3) How you interact with the animal represents how you deal with problems. Eg. If you chase the animal away, it means you tend to face your challenges head-on and eliminate them.
4) The size of the house represents your general ambition.
5) If there is no fence, it generally means you are a more open person.
6) If there is no food, people or roses in your dining room, you are most likely an unhappy person now.
7) The cup represents the people mentioned in Qn 1 and the durability of the cup represents how strong your relationship with them is/will be. Eg. if it is made of say metal (if you imagined/ever saw a metal cup. heh), its real strong. [I find this one to be nonsense really but oh well, thats what Freud said...and he is dead so i can't ask him]
8) What you do with the cup represents what you do with this relationship. Eg. If you pick up the cup and place it carefully by the side, you treasure this relationship and would go all out to preserve it.
9) haha. the size of the body of water represents your sexual libido. [Again I find this to be nonsense...almost everybody dreams of a house by the sea...but Freud claims that unconsciously, that is what we want. the funny thing is that we can't really refute this because we can't really study/measure the unconscious...]
10) how wet you become in the process of crossing the body of water again represents about the same thing as number 9. Eg. If you get soaked then apparently ahem is all you think about. [Again, i don't really agree]

but oh well, hopefully you might have discovered a truth you ignored before~? This is Popular Psychology.

Changed

2010-02-23T11:32:00.005+08:00

Anyong! THis is a picture of my schoolmates and I at Marina bay. Somewhere near the Merlion. heh. My teacher is at the top of the pyramid. A tiny funny korean (thus the anyong!) who was bred in America. And as you can see, shes a great person. Shes wearing pink! hahaha. (self-praise lots)

Depressing the life of a modern day kid. Did a little survey in fitness class today. Split the class into 4 groups. Those who sleep at 10pm, 11pm, 12pm, and later than 12pm. Then asked them to regroup according to what time they wake up and how many hours of sleep they get. Adults require around 8 hours of sleep and teens require about 10hours. Guess how many met that requirement...I sound like an old nag but sleep is really important. If you doubt me, and if you know Brother Peterson, I suggest you ask him to tell you his first hand experience about how important sleep is.

Anyway! I am really happy with how my blog is turning out. No more melancholic posts. No more complaining bout this or that. No more muttering about how much I have going on in my life. heh.

Anyway, just to keep things straight, this isn't a pure fitness blog. it is STILL a random blog of mine. Fitness posts will come as and when I feel like it~heh. I mean as and when I receive any inspiration.
Right now I am doing a little section of weight loosing techniques. Touched a little on what exercise must be done~Will give some training plans possibly some time on. What would come on next however would be a section on what you consume, aka your diet. What and how much should you eat if you want to lose weight.

Oh yes, same goes to the philosophical posts and the psychology posts that's coming up. They will be given as and when inspiration comes.

In the mean time, my thoughts go out to y'all. Stay fit, stay happy (: smile more often and you will become happier. Its not just some myth, its part of what we psychologists call "Facial Feedback Theory". According to this theory, your brain interprets feedback from movement of your facial muscles as different emotions. For example, you see a dark shadow in the corner of your room at night. You react by raising your eyebrows and widening your eyes. Your brain then interprets these facial expressions as those associated with fear, and you then feel fear. So likewise, when we smile, our brain interprets the facial expression as those associated with happiness and thus we will become happier! (: so smile!

Yumm yumm CNY...

2010-02-22T10:52:00.007+08:00

This is the picture of the campfire in Sabah during class trips. was kinda hot. heh.

so after toying around with various blogskins and messing it up multiple times, I am back to a custom template. BORING! But at least it works. heh.
Went back to Singapore last week and met up with quite a few friends. that was superb. haha. havent seen them all in AGES. haha.
Now CNY is over, I'm back in China, we are all fed to the brim with goodies, time to get the body workin it off. heheh. My next few posts will be targeted specifically at weight lost. Well, briefly at least...I'll target weight lost via exercise first before talking about weight lost via your diet in future posts (:

So I have introduced one workout, push-ups. And honestly, again I stress, it is an awesome exercise. Works a lot of different muscles, gives you a strength and yet a cardiovascular workout, and easy to do anywhere. But this exercise is more of a toning exercise. Won't burn much fat. Why?
When you do push-ups, its a form of resistance exercise (weights etc). Any resistance exercise would naturally work the heart as must pump more blood to those muscles thus increasing the heart-rate. However the burning of fat requires something more.

First condition: The heart must be working at at least 60% of your Resting Heart Rate. Again as a recap, your RHR is number of beats that your heart is Beating Per Minute immediately once you wake up.
Second condition:Your heart must be working at this 60% for at least 30minutes. Any less than that, you are just sweating and not burning fat.

So unless you do push-ups for 30mins, it isn't going to help you burn much fat. An important exercise? YES! But not going to burn much fat.
So does that mean you have to jog/run for 30min to burn fat? Well, just running for that long can be rather dull maybe. So find something that you like to do! Play soccer, uh Ultimate frisbee! Dodgeball! haha. I love that game. Or just go for a cycle at the park. Find something fun but yet challenging for you.
Now there's some magic involved. You don't have to exercise 30min EVERY SINGLE DAY to burn calories. Say today is Monday and you play badminton for 45 minutes and you burned uh 800 calories during that time. The magic is that for the next 24 hours, you will continue burning another 800 calories! Thus from a 45 minutes workout, you burn 1600 calories in all!
Your effort carries forward. A teeeny bit of science now. When you exercise, your metabolism is sped up. It will continue working at that increased rate for the next 24hrs and thus you continue to burn calories. If you continue working out every alternate day, your metabolism would work consistently at that higher rate. If you don't however, your metabolism slows down and you will need to re-crank it up again. It is harder to re-crank it up than to maintain. Therefore, consistency is the best! So find that activity that you wanna do (:

Makes sense? If no, leave a tag or comment and I will get to it.
Don't lie to yourself. haha. laugh

The first 15min workout

2010-02-02T11:10:00.017+08:00

Simplicity is the best. And that is exactly what we will do. We'll start off simple because really, the simpler the exercise the better. So what is on the menu? Push-ups. Simple, but effective. Push-ups works a whole range of muscles. Your biceps and triceps (thats your arms), your chest (thats your uh chest...hah), your back muscles, your whole abdominal (stomach area and sides) and your hamstrings. One workout, and more than 6 major muscles worked. Not a bad deal no? And honestly your work out would probably take less than 15mins. Lets run through the workout step-by-step.

1) Stretch
The first thing we need to do is warm up our muscles by stretching. 1 MAIN stretch we have to do.
Place your hand on a wall, straighten your arm, and push forward. This stretches your chest. Hold the position for 10x3 seconds and do for both arms.

2) The workout: Push-ups

As I said, this workout is easy but works a lot of muscles. So the basic push-up we all know.

Body straight, go down till your arms have bent at least 90 degrees. Now HOLD at the down position for 1 second, then come back up.
How many should you do?
For beginners:
Do 3 sets of push-ups. For each set, do till exhaustion (do it until you cant do anymore!) Now for the first set you might be able to do 13~the second set 7~and the third set just 2. Its perfectly fine. As you do this exercise daily, you will find that this number will increase.
For more advanced groups:
Set a target of how many push-ups you want to do per day. 100-300 push-ups is a good number to work with. Now split this number up into challenging but yet manageable sets. I currently do 20 per set.
Now if you are not able to do a regular push-up~or if you are on your 18th set of 20 push-ups but you are hurtingggg~Go into the knee position and continue on. DO NOT STOP EVEN IF IT HURTS.

When you are doing a knee push-up, you are still lifting about 50% of your body weight! It feels alot easier, but you are still getting an awesome workout (yes contrary to popular belief, it aint a sissy push-up). So if you are totally blown out on your last set, just go to this position. You are overloading your muscles (this is a good thing) and you are still getting a good workout.
For those who are not able to do a single regular push-up, do this knee variation. Instead, go down to the count of 10, and come up to the count of 10. Again, do 3 sets till exhaustion.
3) Do the same stretches as a cool down
your muscles only grow if they are stretched after they are worked! this is of vital importance.

Remember the key to anything is consistency. Keep up with this everyday and you will see spectacular results after awhile.
And so cheers! This is your first 15min (or less) workout.

What is meaningful is never easy. The first suggested training program will be given in the next post. stay tuned! [;

2010-01-26T12:35:00.007+08:00

Sunday has been quite interesting. The past few Sundays actually. A culmination of spiritual experiences. So Kandace in her latest post was like, why do I seem to take more pictures of outdoors etc. Experiences over the past 2weeks and a nice interview with the District Presidency in Shenzhen has taught me that in Nature, God seems to speak more to Man. Moses and Mt Sinai, Joseph Smith and the Sacred Grove are just some examples.

2 weeks ago, there was a baptism in my Branch. That meant that immediately after Sacrament, I had to go out to the backyard of the villa (we meet in a house), and up the font, and then guard it. Yes. I am the guardian of the font that ensures no kid cannonballs into the font. And so I was sitting on a swing in the backyard, watching the font, when I looked up at just this random pine tree. Totally random the tree was. But the moment I looked upon the tree, I received what is probably the sweetest feeling i have ever felt. I have always been able to feel the Spirit when my life is in order. However these have always been impressions. This time, I actually heard a full sentence. Nature has a way of connecting us to God. If I may, it might even be magical.
Elder Richard G. Scott talked a little about how we can receive spiritual guidance in the last General Conference. Things we need to do to earn spiritual guidance.

"What is meaningful is never easy. If its easy, it would cease being meaningful. If its easy, we wouldn't learn as much."

Which brings me to my fitness tip. Consistency is the key. It won't be easy at first. But its worth it.

In whatever thing we are doing, we feel the results of what we are doing before we see it. When we study for an exam, the immediate result that we feel is fatigue. But we only see the results (literally in this case) after a period of time when we sit for that big test. Likewise, we feel the results of our workout immediately. Some people I know pumps off 30 push-ups at one go. Sayy OUCHHHH (feeling the result of their workout), then immediately head to the full-length mirror. They look in, flex, see that they haven't gained much muscle, then say heck, whatever, its not working. Now heres the thing. We feel the results immediately but we can only see them after a period of time remember? In fact, we can only see the results of our workout after at least 6 weeks. So for guys, while you feel good after that gym session, you'll only look buffer after 6 weeks. For girls, while the weighing scale shows you lost 700g from that weekend workout and you feel lighter, you will only look slimmer and more toned after at least 6 weeks.

Consistency is the key, what is meaningful, is never easy. Set a target. You don't have to workout for 2 hours every alternate day. I suggest that 15 minutes a day is more than sufficient.
Along this line, I will post up my first training suggestion for that 15min workout the next time I blog (:
Right now I am still touching the basics. Things that are good to know, good to do, and not exclusive to fitness. In the following posts, I would slowly get more specific in what you should do and whats happening to you when you workout.
For now, keep taking your heart rate. It is of UTMOST importance regardless of whether or not you are exercising. As said, it acts as an early warning system as to whether you are feeling well. So every morning, take that heart rate. Consistency is the key.

no I do not have a bedtime Melodyyyy. but!

2010-01-18T08:57:00.006+08:00

finally the research presentation is over. and I must admit it went rather well. there were 17 people presenting, 10mins each, and I was number 14. that meant that by the time it got to me everyone was practically going zzz...still, managed to rouse the crowd, delivered the points I needed to, made the jokes I wanted to, got the response I wanted. hah. and so at the end of the presentation, I bumped into my teacher and he was going "fred...what are we going to do with you...you should go become charismatic preacher!" my reaction? o.O HAHA! again today when he gave me my grades for the presentation~"fred, you should become a charismatic preacher"Aites...sure I do have what it takes and they do earn huuuge bucks. but I'm Mormon so no thanks. which reminds me.
so there's this new kid in school. His name is Matt. Staunch Lutheran (no drugs, no alcohol, no swearing [;) and I was sitting with him at the back of the class and we overheard the rest of the guys in my class talking about how they're gonna try plant the marijuana seeds that they found -.- and so Matt asked me: "hey fred do you read the Bible?" and I was like "of course! I'm Mormon!" his reply? "Good to see that there's someone else in the school with morals." HAHA. yes. As Elder Cook said in in his article in the New Era. We are Saints. We truly, we truly should be.

so onto my fitness tip. I'm gonna hop back to my tip on sleep first before continuing on what I planned to blog about all thanks to Melody xP haha. no I don't have a bedtime, but this is why I try to sleep early.
so here we have it! As I mentioned before, with sufficient sleep, we would have improved concentration, memory and our body would be better able to replenish dead cells. so yes we busy teens say that it is impossible! how are we supposed to have 9-10 hours of sleep per night. so here is the great part! there are different stages to sleep. REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep is the stage of sleep that we need and benefit from the most. wonderful thing is~we can make up sleep! and so if you miss out on sleep during the weekdays, make it up during the weekends. if you don't well, your body doesn't get to recover/heal etc. For guys, that means you won't grow stronger, for girls, that means you'll start looking older! and perhaps uglier...(saggy eyes etc.) not something you want right? now say you are real tired because you had to burn the midnight oil, take power naps! 20mins during lunch and wake up feeling SUPER. anymore than a 20min stretch isn't a power nap and you will wake up feeling even more tired. baseline, get your sleep! (:

know yourself

2010-01-12T12:55:00.007+08:00

so i did a little google blogsearch, and my blog comes up earlier if i search random than if i search fitness... -.- despite this fact, i am rather determined to PRESS ON. (perhaps a reaally random soul will come across this and benefit from it! you'll never know)

so this would be the second and last tip under the "know yourself" category. Hope that you now know your RHR? another thing that is good to know is your weight.
Personally, I am not too hassled about the whole I gained 500g thing. Don't worry if you are not losing as many pounds as want. Health is all about how good you feel and how you really are. you might be heavier than your friends but dont worry. you might have heavier bones. if they still bug you, just tell them that muscles are heavier than fats (: dont worry too much about how heavy you are. your weight is important for another reason. take your weight before your workout, and your weight after your workout. you WILL be lighter after your workout. promise you that. its because you loose water as you exercise. therefore, take your weight before the workout, and minus off your weight after your workout, thats how much fluids you lost, and how much water you have to drink (: know yourself, be healthy

know yourself better

2010-01-06T09:58:00.005+08:00

so Christmas is over but still, this is unbelievably hilarious! haha. so enjoy. (:
wellz. so people in singapore are starting to go back to school. good luck to y'all (: go own the exams and dont fall asleep in class. harhar. brings back memories of times in NJ. unbelievable times. spamming singlish 24/7, talking about crazy random stuff, watching pirates of the caribbean on zh's itouch at during physics, playing bridge before class etc. lol. totally spankin times. crazy people like cris and jingho who are frm vietnam and malaysia but learnt how to speak chinese cantonese and hokkien in the shortest amount of time. soccer games with the class and 04 and any1 else that we can grab. jac with her piglet~lawrence and his bird~justin and his canoe~the "twins" zh and ryan who have the same birthday but the similarities end there. haha. dang dont i miss those days. but oh well, good times dont always last. at least i get to visit occasionally~? MAN 0hthree ftw. hah.

so this is the first health and fitness tip that shall be posted. These are things I've learnt from my personal experience both from fitness and psychology, and also from other sporting professionals who have had and still have professional sporting careers of their own, have had and are still undergoing University education of fitness training, and are currently coaching me. These tips will generally be uh general guidelines and applicable to all. At times I shall dive into certain specifics. These first few tips that would be given would help you to know your own body better.

We all want to be healthy don't we? To improve your fitness, you must first know where are you at, and what your purpose is. Only then can you set goals, only then can you know how much you need to do. So first do that. Set a goal. Determine your purpose. I suggest that at the very basic level, we all set a target to maintain a basic level of health. Despite your purpose or your current level of fitness, it is a good idea to do the following. The first advice to help you know yourself?

1) Know what your Resting Heart Rate (RHR) is.

To find out what it is, simply take your pulse immediately once you wake up. This is the point of time where you are in the greatest state of rest as you just woke up and havent been walking around. You can take your heart rate for 10seconds and multiply that number by 6, or take it for 15 seconds and multiply it by 4. Take your RHR over a week and average the total. This is your BASE HEART RATE (measured in Beats Per Minute, BPM) that you would be working with and we will use this number more in the future. As a general rule however, you do not want your RHR to be high. That means that your heart is working hard to keep you alive. The lower that number the better so watch that number and take your heartrate everyday to measure where you are! Now even if you dont intend to be working out much, this number is still useful. If you wake up one morning with your heart-rate about 8BPM higher than your Base Heart Rate, your body is telling you that you are sick and in the process of recovering. Thus in this situation, rest would probably be a good idea.

So yes thats the first thing. Know your RHR (: and you will know who you are. Give it a shot! Open up your new fitness log and plug in your goals and heart rate!

its the new year #2 and this blog has found a new life

2010-01-05T10:53:00.015+08:00

so i'm studyin the Book of Mormon in seminary this year and we finished Mosiah before december ended. you know Mosiah? the whole the natural man is an enemy to God and all thing~and so that got me thinking a little.
Satan entices us to sin by decieving us to believe that sinning fulfills our natural desires and the natural man. While the natural man might be satisfied through sin, natural desires definitely are not. There is a stark difference between the idea of the "natural man" and the idea of "natural desires".
The state of the "natural man" only began when we came to earth and got a body. The natural man is considered carnal (which is a state whereby we only strive to fulfill temporal physical needs and satisfactions) due to the fall of Adam that allowed us to come to earth to get a body and grow (the 1st condition of us being considered Man), and also due to the veil of forgetfulness that erased all memory of our divine pre-existance (which places us in a carnal stage whereby we need to discover the light of Christ in us). This carnal natural man is satisfied when he commits sin as sins only satisfies temporaly. Unlike the "natural man" however, our "natural desires" can be traced back to the pre-existance. Every person on earth is inately good. Even terrible tyrants like Hitler. Reason, we all made at the very least 1 good choice in our lives. The choice to subscribe to the Plan of Happiness and follow God's will. This is our "natural desire". To obey God. A desire we had eons ago, a desire we have to rediscover, a desire we have to remember and keep burning. Do not let the adversary decieve us that sin satisfies our natural desires because we desire to be with God. That is our natural self. A child of God.
So these are more of my little thoughts of the new year. Personal opinions no more. Anyway, this is probably one of my favorite paintings. It is set during the time that Jesus cast the merchants out of the temple. This painting is painted by Carl Heinrich Bloch a long time ago and though he isn't a member, this painting reveals alot about who God is, and calls for contemplation as to who we are. I wont spoil it, look closely at the painting yourself. Feel free to leave comments as to what you feel/think about it! (yeh dun be selfishh sharre [; )

but anyway, about this blog's new life, i've decided to start a little health column on my blog, giving it a little more value than just random ramblings. got this idea when fred (like fred lee...i dont talk to myself no i dont) came to me asking for advice as to how to get in shape for NS and I came up with some sort of a training program for him. again disclaimer, i dont claim to be the fittest spunk (no but if u insist u can call me a fitness guru xD)but for those who know me, you would know that i have come really far. in the past i couldnt even run 400m but now triathlons are the love. So a tip per post hopefully. Follow these simple tips and I GUARANTEE you, you would feel healthier, look healthier, be healthier and happier! (: We all want to obey the word of wisdom right? Keeping in shape is part of the word of wisdom.
Some of these advice can be modified to suit an individual's personal fitness level and objective. There is no SET NUMBER of what to do. It all varies from person to person, whether you just want to be healthy and fit, or you want to push your limits and go competitive (me it midly competitive or all out). These tips would work for anyone and everyone. its that simple! That being said, if anybody would like some personal help/advice or whatever, i'm always open and glad to oblige. (:
thats all for today, i've always been one for surprises. the mysterious first fitness post would be revealed tmrw.

its the new year part 1!: peaas stay healtyyy

2010-01-04T11:37:00.005+08:00

this is 1 of my favorite adverts of all time. even better when you see it being performed live. haha. vadi (that big indian dude) is friggin funny. haha. and besides this goes along with my post of staying healthy.
instead of writing 1 HUGE "this was my 2009" post, i shall write a few small ones with a few shoutouts and pleas.
so finally my research essay is over. 1week with 20min sleep per day killed me. you know that ctr ring i have? and every1 (other than jeremy) always go woah! u've got huuge fingers? after that 1 week, i couldnt keep the ring on my finger. just point my hand downwards and the ring would just slip off. i dont proclaim myself to be the biggest fitness junkie but lemme tell u this. from experience and from my AP psyche class (yes i do stay awake in sch). adolescents need at least 9hours of sleep. not 8 as per popular belief, but 9. (btw, referring to my previous post, the GA came up with that personal progress goal before the psychological studies showed that we need 9hrs) it is needed to repair our bodies and mental functions that includes sorting out our memories. a lack of sleep results in motor and speech problems, perceptual difficulties and personality changes. POINT IS, a lack of sleep is très mauvais, muy mal, 不好,아주 나쁜. imagine how much weight i lost in just that 1 week such that my ring fell out...it aint healthyy. PLEASE people, get enuff sleep.

whee a working proxy

2010-01-03T19:58:00.003+08:00

so the YM President was telling us some of the stuff the old YM Personal Progress made them do. Look after a hive of bees for (i cant remember how many) months. Make sure you have at least 9hours of beauty sleep each day for (i cant remember how many) months. The best one? For (i cant remember how many) months~look at something beautiful. This is the reason why the YM program had to come up with a different set of goals and targets to make us do coz if u ask us to look at something beautiful, we would either look at the girl at the opposite table or in the mirror xD AITEZ! totally joking!
but its interesting how the program has evolved through time. i'm just so greatful for the Duty to God program though. Goal? Finish it by Feb. issit possible? No idea.
rushed post...more tmrw! (:

2009-12-16T10:49:00.000+08:00

hiii

random rantings, awesome alliterations

2009-12-16T10:29:00.003+08:00

unbelievable. haha. i stopped going to lawrence's blog for awhile coz it was super lame, went back today and it just got lamer. lol. but that being said, it was super funny. hahah. joker. dang i miss my o3 class. all the good ol' times. acting flowers for Algernon, after lunch bridge sessions, and all other random moments with crazy people like zh, ryan, cris, law, justin blah blah. dang miss it.
learning about memories in psyche.
Flashbulb memories- an episodic memory (the i remember when...memory) that you remember in EXACT detail due to the emotional response it stirs lah lah lah.
my real big flashbulb memory? rugby at the end of the school last year. fumbling zh's pass that could have won us the champion place. dnu why but yeh. flashbulb memory. i remember it in EXACT detail and it drives me mad. gahhh.
so realized that there are so many people that I havent talked to in a long while. ben, han, trent, many many more...bah. so heard that singapore is having a countdown dance again. no fair.

2009-12-09T13:42:00.002+08:00

total time slept after 2days: 3x20mins
currently in you might not want to piss me off zombie mode...

work due tmrw:
10page psyche assignment
developmental psychology research project
international politics research project
AP language essay
many many more...
pft

2009-12-08T10:01:00.001+08:00

total hours of sleep last night: 0.3hours
lets see how long i can last...

a little here, a little there. my debater's "bible"

2009-12-03T09:30:00.002+08:00

this is a picture of us on the bunk boat ride...anyway, i was talking to nelson from ACJC, and denise frm NJ, updating myself on the debates scene. nelson was really impressed with Ben. not surprising, he has good identification and organization of points. NJ has really progressed. and that is good. the team has found its niche. knowledge, good identification and organization. our best trait, consistency and team dynamics. that enabled us to beat supposedly strong hwa chong last year despite our supposedly presentable but weak style. those who know me will know that I am all for style. it doesnt really matter what you say, its a matter of how you say it. I believe that I have at the very least decent if not a relatively good style. all these i credit to super coaches and seniors: Jon and David Pflug, Vishal, YOng Wei, Mich, MArk, Teck Wee, Yinli, Pinli, just to name a few. style has pulled me through and to me is the key element. If I win I win with style, and even if I lose, I go down in style. however as I said, NJ has found our strength thanks to good seniors too. I believe that with a little infusion of style, we would be really good. if I may be bold, perhaps better than the WSDC team of Ren Jie and Liki. Yes they are good but our brains are better than theirs I believe. I just feel so proud of how far NJ has gone.
this is the guys of the MUN team, I have no idea why they are carrying me. my shirts a little wet coz of the pyramid making. someone's leg was wet...lol
and this is my korean teacher! like coincidence! we were wearing pink! xD great minds think alike. haha. then i went to church the next day and kandace was wearing pink too. haha. really great minds. okok choir class! later!

THIMUN 2

2009-12-02T14:12:00.005+08:00

presenting the Shekou International School THIMUN team 09. see if you can spot me without looking at the faces. haha.
welcome to a random moment along CQ. haha. but so yeh. this is friends of THIMUN. I had my barker bro's kenneth, leroy and fred look me up. chilled at the lobby of my hotel and talked bout crazy stuff for a looong time. dang it has been long since i met them and it was good to catch up with them. they changed but yet are still the same. it was cool hanging out with them again. went out for dinner with sis, marcus, uncle philip and xiao
gu gu at swensens! haha. ice-cream and all xD then went to meet up with NJ peeps. I was laate. lost my wayy big time...so there was ryan, law, zh, justin, jac, emily, and liz. ryan got new specs, law looks as skinny and fast as he used to, zh looks less like a teddybear more like a tennis player, lol, justin looks like he runs 42km for fun now, emilyy uhh like she went on a diet, jac still as piglet, and liz...looks like a friggin refugee that have been starving to death. haha. i think slim and sexy is what they like to call it...but so i was late so had to treat them to dessert. lol. at bk. then went to bugis coz emily wanted to buy something and there i bumped into my shekou friends. coincidence no? or mayb its just BIG proof that singapore is small. anyway on that same day, i popped into church where they just finished seminary and institute grad. i love doing that. popping in unexpected. like the previous time and then this time. myra still looks like shes in p3, kandace finally admits that pink is hawt with her pink shirt, john looks like he grew taller. dang i miss em.
and so friends i got to know because of MUN. there was this cool malaysian dude from Ipoh, forgot his name. haha. melody and devvyy spent a lot of time with and they were retarded xD still are...and i got to know the krazy koreans better. haha. well, ok i should get to do more work done. mayb there will be a part 3. haha

our attempt to make a pyramid. hha.

THIMUN 1

2009-12-02T13:34:00.002+08:00

So i think a THIMUN 09 post is in order. or maybe a few THIMUN posts with this being the first of the series. The last time I went for THIMUN was when i was what 13? That is equivalent to Sec 1, or Grade 7? I can proudly say that I did absolutely nothing then. Presented one truely lame Point of Information and that was it. But hey! I was young! and practically everyone there were juniors or seniors~! This time I managed to hold the floor for quite awhile, took the floor whenever I felt sleepy, made a few jokes here and there and wahla! best speaker of ECOSOC for whatever that is worth. One thing remained the same with this conference though, I had a 3rd World country. Somalia this time, Zimbabwe during the last conference. What does these 2 countries have other than a heck load of sand? I have no idea...
so it totally rawked being a senior in THIMUN coz you're actually respected as some form of authority in some matters. got interviewed, got on MUN TV and of course got to know a few new people, with melodyy and devvy being the funnest, kraziest, and cooolest. xD haha. don't let it get to your heads...xD of course the fact that they are Singaporeans help. ohh~! of course there were other Singaporeans there...tight short pants hwa chongers (sorry for the stereotype but 99% true no?) and well hwa chongers are nice people yehh but. lol...(again only for 99% mayb a little lesser) pompous people pho pink pey pow pit pall (haha. kk that was retarded). yehh. so they don't really count. the dance was fun. and funny if you see the hwa chong people try to dance (fyi I know I can't dance thats why I don't try...) and then there was this catholic high debater that I recognized who was so not in THIMUN, but crashed the dance again and thought that he could dance...well he saw me and his face turned color. like not even joking the room was dark and you could see his face go white...probably remembered how nj trashed his precious seemingly almighty cat high last year at JG's. I wanted to do just that ever since I saw Christiano and the other high-pitched voiced guy oh yeh Antiono? when I was in Barker. So eat that, hope loosing felt good (:
ok but less about social stuff, more serious stuff in this post...I participated in only a few topics
. Poverty eradication, sustainable patterns of consumption and production
,rights of indigenous people and i think there is one more. why only these topics? coz these were the less boring ones of the group where there was some interesting oppositions (: Russia was way funny so was Algeria. Algeria never wanted the debates to end, kept trying to extend debate time and that almost got him killed. JOKE. haha. he was a way cool indian duude. well i dont really feel like discussing bout those issues now xP so chowz and on to THIMUN part 2

The Prayer

2009-11-08T22:16:00.001+08:00

Song sang by June Kim and I during a recent concert. Doesn't sound perfect but still friggin awesome to me.
We will probably be cutting a CD together with other great vocalists such as Coryne Farnsworth and Emily Sears so stay tuned for that.
Hope you like the music and I'll always be praying, for all of you. THis song goes out to you.

coincidence?

2009-11-08T21:36:00.005+08:00

Life is not always easy; it was not meant to be so. It's a time of testing and proving. We learn to handle disappointment and sorrow, which in turn builds character and increases our compassion for others.
THis is a quote taken from Kandace's blog and dang, she is must either be a fortune teller, a genius or she's MEGA into the Spirit today. lol. Scary how she can read my mind, speak with a force that cuts right into my soul. yeh Kandace's WOW I call it. But its such a coincidence because this is exactly what I was thinking about this week! Creepily Cool Non? And it kinda ties into the theme that I have been refering to. Perspective and change.

Failure was a word that NEVER existed in my dictionary. I hated that word, condemned it, and banned it from ever being used whenever I was prepping my team for a competition. I have ran a few good races, burned all competition away. We have sang some good songs, blew the audience away. I have won debates and best speaker awards, chewed up my opponents and spat them out again after I was done with them. No mercy. No failure. Ever. But then recently I reaxamined my life...

My childhood friends inactive from church. Deacon's president, Teacher's president, and most importantly friend. And I didnt manage to do a thing. Didnt manage to change a friggin thing. Failed.

Chibi. Had/has boyfriend problems and of course! lol. I am the best one to ask...Havnt managed to help her out much. Havnt been able to be there when she needed. Havnt managed to find the courage to introduce the Gospel to her. Failed.

And now. Matt Sears and a whole load of other people. Friends who have helped me out countless times. Friends who have pulled me up when I was down. Friends whom I promised. Promised that no matter when, no matter where, no matter what, if they needed help, I would be there to help them solve whatever troubles they were facing. THey have helped me, I havnt managed to help them at all. Failed.

And when it comes to my role as a son and a brother. Gosh lets not even get started on that.

Why cant God be more direct. Why cant he tell me that:"Hey, this is what would get Max to want to come to church again" or "Yo, Coryne likes this, she needs that and you can help her with this. It would make you a better friend." Why cant he tell me exactly what I can and need to do to fulfill my responsibilities and callings.

Failure is in my life more that I cared to imagine. And this is where Kandace's qoute strikes me hard.
Life is not always easy; it was not meant to be so. It's a time of testing and proving. We learn to handle disappointment and sorrow, which in turn builds character and increases our compassion for others.

I guess that failure might be a part of life of life that i have to go through. Its part of the process of falling down, picking ourselves up and learning from that fall. Its a humbling experiece that makes us more relient and grateful to God. Its not necessarily a bad thing. Dont get me wrong its not that I was proud. I attributed EVERYTHING to God. Thanked Him for ALL I have. But shoot me. Because something like this was mentioned in my patriachal blessing. Something along the lines that I will learn from experiences that would not be too hard, to be humble and to learn how to serve my fellow men to the fullest, to know how to fulfill my calling. Its not the exact wording but its the general idea.
I guess failure IS needed. A certain degree of it anyway. Its not going to be easy. Its going to be pain. Disappointment and sorrow.

Nobody knows what I am going through. I am literally wrecked with mental torment over my failures. My inability to magnify my church callings. My patheticness as a friend. My failings as a son and a brother. THey say character takes time to build as you go through the refiner's fire. This fire sure hurts. Bad. But I know. I must trust that its for my good.

Remember how I talked about the people who bring about change? The REAAALLY successful ones, you call them Presidents and Nobel Prize winners. Obama, Ghandi, MArtin Luther King Jr. THe unsuccessful ones, you call them terrorists and psychopaths. Osama, Bush etc. (yeah I like my little joke.) At the end of the day what am I? I fear I am more a psychopath. I have failed in my goal to change. And well, perhaps the sooner I stop trying to, the better things might become. Gosh how I've messed up and failed. I should close this chapter of my life.
but whatever the case, to those who have changed me, you are more than Presidents and Nobel Prize winners to me.
and as kandace says, sank you x)

2 people are on my slapping list when i get back to singapore. thanks for calling me emo. har

2009-11-06T11:48:00.003+08:00

just got back from sabah, class vacation. and it was quite awesome! haha. hiking through hardcore rainforests, getting pounded by waterfalls, serious whitewater rafting with waves more than 1m high, soaking in the mud volcano, and sleeping on a hammock along the beach. just awesome. and of course all the nasi lamak and all the other sedap stuff.
so pictures some other time. most of the pictures of me featured me sleeping. haha. it was not action packed enough

perspectives III, If today was your last day

2009-10-27T09:45:00.002+08:00

If today was your last day and tomorrow was too late
Could you say goodbye to yesterday?
Would you live each moment like your last...

seminary today. the teacher Sister Farnsworth asked. what would you do if today were you last day. what do you want to be remembered for. what do you want written on your grave stone? have you told the important people in your life that they are important?
so isnt it a coincidence. just 2posts down *pointpoint* under perspectives II, i have given to shout out to some of the great people in my life. *go look*
but what do I want to be remembered for. and gosh. I have tried to make myself remembered. Coaching debate teams and breaking into finals for the first time~singing soprano, tenor than bass and pulling AChoir through and doing my bit for NJChoir~budding triathlete~more recently a 1st assistant to the branch president among many other things~but. thinking about it, i guess. that if I am just remembered as a friend, as a good friend, as a friend that was always there~that would be enough.
what do I want written on my tombstone? probably this. so listen up!
The Best is Yet to Be. (anyone surpwise) I am a man who strives for perfection in anything and everything. pitch, tone and rhythm in singing. rebuttals and arguements in debates and really. in everything
Proud to Be. Proud to Be a Singaporean. Proud to Be a Mormon. Proud to Be your friend. (:

"HD" - Celine Dion: The Prayer with Andrea Bocelli (Madison Square Garden Taking Chances Tour)

2009-10-26T12:47:00.001+08:00

i love this song. will be singing this tomorrow. but of course june and i will sound totally better than this. june is celine and i am andrea bocelli. we all need a prayer

Andrea Bocelli "Can't Help Falling In Love"on stage

2009-10-26T12:42:00.001+08:00

another wonderful song by andrea bocelli. i wanna sing something like this sometime. anyone interested?

perspectives II and so hows life? (editted)

2009-10-26T08:17:00.008+08:00

THIS AWESOME PICTURE IS TAKEN BY NON OTHER THAN KANDACE
People change you. and you welcome that change. because deep down, that's what you want to do too. you want to be the change, bring about change, be remembered for that change. and so you admire them for what they did and you embrace it.
I think this sounds quite philosophical. I like it. and of course. I wrote it. haha. but anyways the later part of this post is dedicated to these people.

i think even fate has been making a fool out of me. haha. or at least my mp4 is. lemme give you an idea of what happened. i decided to put my player on shuffle out of random.
1st song- With or Without you, U2
2nd song- Here without you, 3 Doors Down
3rd song- Empty, The Click 5
4th song- All out of Love, Air Supply

so get the idea yeh. haha. and a few of us guys are going to sing Yesterday by the Beatles. and its so funny how just last week i was scorning and scoffing saying pft. stupid emo song. why are we singing this. haha. dang my teacher is a fortune teller because now this song is speaking what my heart is crying out.

things mean different things to you at different points in your life. its like a patriachal blessing. or the scriptures. it means different things to you when you are at different point of your life. or Sunday Best attire. What is a Sunday best? It depends on where you are. its called the Spirit of the Law. so see. just like those songs, things mean different things to you at different times of your life. in in reality, so are friends. they usually come and go. they usually are a different presence and influence in your life as it goes. usually this presence and influence decreases. usually, they eventually disappear.

but there are those special ones. those special ones who never die away. those special ones whose influence increases as time goes. these are those special ones. this is a shout out to you so that you know what you have done. life is short, unpredictable and i must say this while i have the chance. i have told some of you in person. but if i cant . this is it (: and of course the list is not exhaustive. not ranked in any order of AWESOMENESS. haha

to casey. whom i have known since i dont know when. crazy dj, music mixer magician, swimmer, tennis player, church senior, and of course a fantabulous fergerlicious friend. (:
credibilistic coryne (why did the cactus cross the road? haha) and EXTRemily (:we java jive away. haha. and other cool shenzhen people like rachel and jonny boy, saren, awesomegalicious audrey! haha.
krazy kandace aka the photographer, the cloner, ms jelly along with a whole lot of other names. got to know you when i was in sec2. life has never been the same since. all the backward letters and all the other retarded stuff. haha. good times
benji jembi lol. another FFF member. childhood friend, president of a president, ahaha. yeh i remember how you used to call yourself that. fun prank partner. haha.
sherman, david. basketballer and volleyballer. street magician. the times we shared will always be remembered.
all my ACbrothers, joey, roy, ken, ant... you rawk. we roll. and the blood of the chimera runs through our veins.

so many more but of course my family has to come in. always by my side. always will be I hope.
this shout out goes to you all. and if anything might ever happen. I hope, that you will always think of me at my best.

perspectives I

2009-10-22T11:18:00.003+08:00

its funny how people can change your perspectives, change your likes and dislikes, maybe even change your personality!
just to list a few, my sister got me hooked on choir, casey got me hooked on awesome dance music and mashup's, shinny got me noticing tigger more, xP, chibi got me more chinese speaking, lol, rachel got me crazy about purple cows, haha, and kandace just got me krazy...xD
people change you. and you welcome that change. because deep down, thats what you want to do too. you want to be the change, bring about change, be remembered for that change. and so you admire them for what they did and you embrace it. but when that person leaves your life, that part of you starts to die out. or you make it go away. coz having that still in you only reminds you of that person. and it hurts. BIG TIME. and then you have a void in your heart, in your life. and maybe it might hurt more than memories. but you push on. you dont give a...you dont care. haha. you load yourself and pile on the work! wake up at 5am to run. go train and coach the touch rugby team. make everywhere else (including the brain surpwise surpwise) hurt so that it can divert your attention away. life is full of adaptations. its darwanian.
this week was kinda good. there was mutual yesterday and i decided to go pop down to matt sears's house to say hi. background. matt is a priest, inactive because his chinese girlfriend is not allowed to attend church. he is doing his eagle project. most of his friends are in college so well, since we all can do with an extra friend, i try to visit him as often as i can. and so i was walking down to his place, saw this deacon that did not want to go for mutual and is semi-inactive, pulled him along with me. then went to matt's house and really i just wanted to catch up with him but he said he would follow us down to mutual in the end. awesome yeh?

its all about perspective. life's good. and if ANYBODY dare say that this is an emo post, i will slaaaap you when i go to singapore in november. hahaha

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger. What doesnt kill you will only make you stronger.

2009-10-20T11:27:00.002+08:00

bah i am still living so thats good i guess but dang. i am just dead. haha. well yesh. that was totally contradictory but oh well. dang. i need to sleep. i feel like crap. kandace is awesome, so is casey and ben, this is random

WJ Has Updated The Blog, Mozzies Are No Longer Breeding...

2009-10-14T15:15:00.002+08:00

right finee....i havent been posting. been busy. but it is a down time between class. just listened to another mash-up that casey did. one word. PRO. haha. other words that come to mind? wizard, genius, fantabulous. haha.
so what have i been up to? for one there is the psychology project. why is it hard? the work isnt. if not for the fact that we have to create a beautiful poster and i stink at art. if not for the fact that i am the only guy in a group of 3. oh! did i mention that the 2 girls like hate each other? so i have to put up with both of them b...bickering to me about each other...gosh. gals. pft.
cross country meet this friday, yc with hong kong stake this saturday. we are going to play paintball and many other cooool stuff.
brb. have to log off for awhile

2009-09-16T09:03:00.002+08:00

so! i am in changi airport, using wireless@sg, doing this blog post. touched down on saturday and straight after dropping my baggage off, i went down to church to meet up with casey, myra, kandace, marissa and chibi for dinner. so casey, marissa and chibi knew that i was back but myra and kandace didnt. haha. their reaction was SO funny. went to newton food centre where i met my "soul-mate" lol. haha. really it was just this auntie with a pink polo-tee that didnt look like mine AT ALL. haha.but it was quite funnae. haha. then although i was staying at a hotel somewhere in dhouby, i took the train all the way to woodlands then back! haha. but it was fun lurh. (i use my tie to cover my blush *blush!*) haha. okok fine. i should stop doing that. haha. but i got cloned by krazyy kandace! (i have to think of a better epithet for you. haha) but aint that awesome? hey you have to post the soft copy of it up some time horr (:

sunday was cool too. got pulled to choir~sadlyy~haha. but there was youth fireside at night. then went to bishop li's house for dinner and ZOMG. was the food and desserts BLOWYOURMINDFRIGGINLYAWESOME. haha. but i totally forgot to take pictures with all of em :( but it was fun. played pass it along pictionary (hah! an idea for the next mutual in shenzhen thanks) went totally bonkus in the train to his house with my sistas! haha. was totally crazy la. man theres so many things i want to write about!

stayed with my cousin for awhile and FLIP he is huge. not even joking. HUGE.

bah. i DO miss the singapore youth lots~casey is as awesome as ever, myra as short as ever, kandace has started speaking chinese and korean but as epic as ever, chibi still as kiddo-ey as ever. dangflipbang.

i might do a second post sometime.

freddy out

2009-09-11T11:28:00.002+08:00

I feel so random in AP lang now that i must sayy~this is my 225th post and its on 9/11! gosh. random aint it? so! i will be back in singapore tomorrow? and its gonna be so cool. haha. but hey its not a holidayy i have work to do.

I'm gna be singing "The Prayer" dnu how many people heard that song~but its awesome. go search it. the version by josh groban is awesome. right. i "prolly" (as kandace always uses, lol) should be paying attention in class. haha. chowz! pip pip cheerio! (:

2009-09-06T17:05:00.002+08:00

so its totally amazing. i've found a sailing club here, sailing olympic class hobie 16's now. its a catamaran. and so i'm now doing something like this

Yeh. trust me, hanging of the boat like that is reaal fun. hard but fun. professionals only Xp and its even nicer when you'r ein open sea and 3 dolphins are swimming right next to you like how they were next to my boat yesterday. amazing. the creation (: i'll prob take rachel out with me someday.

2009-08-30T22:15:00.003+08:00

3rd post this sunday...thinking of those happy times we had makes me long for them. makes me wanna cry...

2009-08-30T21:39:00.006+08:00

ah wtheck. another of this 2 posts in 1 day. what to do. i just read kandaces blog.

Quote:" have been had a spoken to someone a little more frequently and perhaps a little more genuinely.

I do regret my actions.. or should I say, NON-action (haha) and hopefully can improve and embrace uncertainty a bit better in the days to come. Perhaps speak with someone I don't usually speak with or just have a plesant and meaningful conversation with a friend."

gosh made me think it did. reallyy think. so made me think of all the friends i am so grateful to have. HONESTLY. list is not exclusive. benji and casey, leroy and kenneth, joey and anthony, myra and chibi, and yes andrea and kandace of course. lol. dang made me remember how i 1st got to know the 2 of them.

haha. so i 1st got to know andrea. i saw her after one night before a debate competition. recognized she was frm church said hi. at that time i thought she was called abish. lol. ya wtheck. that same night AFTER my debate, i saw kandace. and yes i knew that i saw her around in church b4, so i said hi. haha. she probably thought i was some crazy random guy. (hmm..sounds like me.) but so i got to know andrea 1st and she introduced me to kandace and thats how i got to know 2 wonderful friends. we became real close? or at least i felt close to them. smsed them everyday. called them too. told them things i told no one else and shared some secrets and problems with each other. except other than casey and ben mayb. but then...we started driftin away...far away. or at least again, haha, to me. maybe its coz, i changed. mayb its coz they changed. mayb its coz we both changed. haha. or that we talked to each other less and less. regret it? totally. so yes. maybe its time. time i start picking up those friendships that i miss. that i feel i've lost...a pity. big pity.

but i want to thank all you awesome friends i have. i dont talk much. i dont often say and tell people how much they mean to me. but ya'll do. and i loved and am loving every moment i spend with each one of you. may the fire of friendship always burn in our hearts. (:

2009-08-30T20:49:00.002+08:00

so yesterday was a splendid day? went on my 1st date. and haha. my fingers are sore. went bowling. lol. so rmbr i was blogging about how i suck at bowling unless theres a hot girl around? lol. and even when there was one 2lanes down when i last went bowling, i cudnt score above 100...this time, i got 8strikes, one turkey, and 9spares in 5games. haha. so infer. she's KICKASS hot. haha. but shes really nice. mormon of course. hopefully things would work out. but theres army, mission and college. and americans marry young. pft. what to do~?

Quote from a note her mom wrote on FB:

"Rachel turned sixteen last week and will be going on her first date today...scary!!!!!! She is a really good kid and this boy in our branch here has been waiting for her to turn sixteen so they could start dating."

lol. never say i'm a good kid! pout. oh well. haha.

so i'm injured. a sickly bruised toe. got stomped on while at the beach retreat with my school. thought it was just pain and it would go so i rubbed it then went to unofficially train and do beach runs with the track team, played some rugby, went home and saw a purple, black and swollen 2nd toe. so now i have to cool of my training. bummer eh...

gosh, i hope things betweeb the 2 of us works out~

2009-08-24T15:23:00.002+08:00

BECAUSE OF OVERWHELMING POPULAR DEMAND~! (yar rite...) I am updating my blog. so i have school till 5pm today. joy. thanks to MUN. haha. so I have 2 coaches now to help me with my training. and they are quite crazyyy. but thats a good thing rite? Xp training everyday during lunch on top of 3days of 1.5hrs of fitness class per week. awesome eh?

but so i am stoning away now in MUN meeting. no one really online to chat with so. haha. casey is pia-ing for his test, nj peeps have pw now or are still in sch so...so gosh seriousleeee.

so liz finally answered her sms XD aMAZinggg. haha. btw she doesnt like internet smses. lol thats why its amazingg. ip2's just finished OBS but they didnt manage to sail so aww...

talking about sailing, i've finally managed to find a sailing club here in shenzhen! whoots.

gosh so you probably realized (yeah realized with a "Z" and not "S". americano style haha) life has been rather boring for me. i still have to upload some pictures but i'm lazyy.

Kandace is an awesome photgrapher. more than awesome actually.

Liz is just crazily funny but i havent talked to her for a long time~:(

casey is just epic. go study dude...lol.

benji is just having fun with his war games...yar ritez.

I have helped 3 people with their EOMs which was great but I realized too that I have a whole stack of shiat waiting for me. fun eh~

i miss singapore, i miss my laksa, i miss my mee robus, and my botak jones *pout* and all my friends of course.

but yes we youth in the Shenzhen branch are awesome. coryne and emily sang the previous sunday. awesome. blew me to heaven and back. and so emily went for efy and sang there, some person went up to her and asked when she would cut her own album coz she wanted to buy it. then called her a disney princess. yes, she has the looks to go with the voice.

we awesome people. Xp

xian day...wtvr

2009-08-02T13:57:00.002+08:00

so i realized the reason why i dont put any labels for my posts. if i do, everything will just be labeled under RANDOM. haha. 2nd day in xian. kinda~bought a converse shirt yesterday. today went to church. small branch in xian that is made up of the 5ppl from my family, the branch president, and this single lady in her late 40's who has 50+ kids. aha. (she runs an orphanage) so it was quite coool. met in the branch president's house. sang hymns, since the branch is so small everyone was required to bear a 15 min testimony. lol. jkjk but we all had to bear a testimony. going to visit some museum now and flip i hate museums. oh well.
found out something too. i only fear 2 things.
1) God
2) Heights
and because of my 2nd fear, dang i'll have trouble adjusting to life in heaven...(assumptions aplenty lol)

2009-08-01T17:18:00.002+08:00

so Men's enrichment. 3P's. Pool (as in like billards), Ping Pong and PIZZAAAAA. haha. then we went to play bowling and yes i stinked. haha. fine i sinked the winning shots in pool when we were playing 2-2 but for bowling seesh. reminded me of the times that i went bowling with leroy and kenneth and how i only managed to sink stikes in a row when there was this hawt gal a few lanes down. then leroy and kenneth was like shout chio bu and throw mayb will work. haha. worked. no gutter. just strikes, spares and more than once. funnyyyyy. then we came back to one of the brother's house to play more pool. cut-throat pool.
so now the summer is still on. i'm in xian now and will be visiting a few other places. sch starting soon in 3 weeks? i'll still be attending the 2day seminary though even though i have completed all 4 years. since tahts what some ppl in singapore are doing rite? instead of doing institute this year? haha. but so i dont need to do the seminary hw that i would usually need too. luckyy.
i have seriously gotten dumber anyway...if thats possible. with the schooling system here honestly. compared to in singapore its a piece of cake but i've gotten so slack that i'm grumbling...grr.
going for thimun this year. but i hvnt registered for NS so i'm scared i kena caught at the airport. lol. my teacher said that he would ask teh dude to check my passport again if he lets me through for fun to make him arrest me. lol.

2009-07-25T12:18:00.002+08:00

havent posted in a long while. life is quite...bah nvm. we try nt to think sad things eh? anyways, i bot harry potter 6 at some roadside store and was treated to emma watson speaking chinese. lol. who cares just as hawt. lol. same thing with megan fox. srsly...haha. but it was quite funnyyy. so i've got EQ's Men Enrichment tonite. total copy of what they do in RS except...no table clothes, flowers and the food must be able to be prepared in less than 2mins. ahaha. pft life is...kill me...fb is down, so is youtube twitter and blogger actually. the proxy is working this time though...luckyyy.

2009-06-10T08:30:00.002+08:00

i'm feeling like craaap. and its not because of sch now since things are winding down. guess what we did in choir class? watched west side story. guessed what we did in asain lit? watched lord of the rings. guessed what we did in physics then? ordered kababs and pizza, then watched another movie. so nope its nt schh but i still feel like crap. useless. pft!

2009-05-22T14:13:00.002+08:00

i'm a stressed man. SAT, timetable and subject choices for next year, group assignments overdue (or should i say individual assignments since my teamate is really goood! for nothing...) i'm am just going to explode. haha. then you people in singapore are probably thinking, crazy bugger whos learning logaritms for math and says he is stressed. well YARR. math and science is easy, but the humanities are crap hard. pft. going to exploode.

yet i'm a relieved man. performcance is over. did that swing dance and it was okayy...first time performing a dance and it was okay. sang another solo and it was also okay. nth fantabulous. nth epic.

but, i'm also a happy man! (: because of what i've learnt this week. haha.

i'm such a confused man. lol. who on earth feels 3 different conflicting emotions at once. XD

I Heart You Online

2009-05-19T08:57:00.001+08:00

Quite a cool song really. my teacher played it then i was like, i heart you online?! hahaha.

2009-05-13T21:44:00.004+08:00

whoosh. things have been moving quickly. lots of things to do. haha. well learnt a new scientific principle. you know the principle of conservation of energy? (energy cnt be destroyed but only transfered blah blah...) well, presenting to you...the principle of conservation of PROBLEMS.

rachel tay: Fred! do you know how to dance the swing?
Fred (aka ME!): yeahhh~...(tks bro davis! haha)
rechel tay: OMGOSH! thanks you just solved my problem!
Mr Hughes (my wayy cool science teacher who is JUST like jack black in the school of rock. bearded, rawks on the guitar, and he has a band that is invited to perform in HK frequentlyy): law of conservation of problems. rachel's problem is solved, Fred, yours just began.

so now here i am, dancing the swing at the concert with a live concert band behind me in front of i dont know who. quite freakishly freaky but mayb awesome too...video maybe?

so somehow i'm worrying again. worried over the little chibi mostlyy. little kid ahh....but well, i'm worried over everyone else too. people arent smiling enuff! too emo! busy! stressed! (Ms LIZ GAN thats youu femeoww. haha) well, smile people, dont make this old man worry. (: but if theres anything i can do tell me. otherwise i worry even more la. haha. HEAH HEAH HEAH xP

qn.: how do you tell a gender of a cat?

2009-05-03T21:36:00.001+08:00

ans: ask it! (duhh) haha. if its a guy it'll purr meoww. if not it'll replyy femeowwww hhahah. (:

long post on youth conference. pictures at a later date. hah

2009-05-03T20:54:00.003+08:00

back from youth conference! and it was reallyyy awesome. i mean i knew it would be awesome, but not THAT awesome. well so day one, had ice-breaker games. shared some ambaressing things about my self. played 2 truths and a lie. i got my black belt when i was eight. i wore a skirt and acted in a play as a girl once (charlie gorden! aha) i went surfing before. (: go figure. got a new name Maria von Trapp. for full story, ask. haha. but well learnt some interesting stuff bout people too! haha. hilarious stuff bout jonny and rachel (: aww. cute stuff actuallyy. haha.
we then had a fireside by a GA. Elder Perkins of the 70's. and he just came from general conference in utah. Pres. Eyring went up to him and asked him where is his next assignment. He told Pres Eyring that he was going to china for YC. Pres Eyring simply said. Will you tell them that we love them? and that we are always praying for them? and ask them to pray for us too. and you know, even when i am typing this, shivers are going through me, and such a great feeling of love. but so! highlights! there was a dance that night which was epic, and awesome (: enjoyed the dances. REALLY enjoyed it (:
over to hk the next day. got stopped by customs coz i dont look ANYTHING like the picture in my passport. haha. srsly. so went to the temple the next day and words cannot describe how great i felt. the feeling of knowing that you worked real hard in life to keep on the straight and narrow and are worthy to enter the house of the Lord, worthy to participate in Holy ordinances. it was just great. it is something i never want to lose.
had exchanges with the missionaries after the temple trip. went to teach this sri lankan family. simple family. whole house was literaly a 3m by 3m room. didnt speak much english. but the Spirit was just wonderful. again i'm just so grateful that i am able to feel the Spirit, and His love.
later on had workshops. Sister Alden, this wonderful old lady drilled something in my mind. "When you get married in the temple and have children..." haha. it was something her mom drilled into her too.and she shared it with us. well of course the story is a lot longer but this is summarized. haha. when i get married in the temple and have children... (: temple marriage is what i'm having nothing less.
you know i'm actually happy that i'm here in china. with the epic and awesome shenzhen youth (: i know that i am supposed to be here. was rather clear in my patriachal blessing that i should. and i have no regrets. none at all. in fact, i would now regret if i hadnt come here. got to know a few special people (yeahh you are special Xp) and it is just great. now that 2 of me friends in church are leaving, me sad :( bah i'm being spastic again. but yeahhh. i owe you ben. we youth will always have each other though. (: we are never alone.
countdown. it is now may.

2009-04-16T08:31:00.003+08:00

nope no one tagged me to do this quizz :( but i'm bored so i stole it muahahahaaaa! from ally's blogg

THREE NAMES THAT FRIENDS CALL YOU:
1. Shuai Ge Xp (hahaha. jkjkjk)
2. Fred
3. Wen Jie...

THREE IMPORTANT DATES IN YOUR LIFE:
1. 26th Feb (what to doo...haha)
2. uhmzz. 25th dec! (family gathering! haha)
3. Some date in April (the date that the Church was organized! haha)

THREE THINGS YOU HAVE DONE IN THE LAST 30 MINUTES:
1. Listened to math lesson in class
2. Listening to Chem lesson in class
3. Trying to do me work that I'm supposed to do. haha

THREE WAYS TO BE HAPPY EVEN IF YOU'RE STUCK AT HOME:
1. TRY TO blogg
2. Watch movies online. haha. (on the rocky series)
3. MSN! and talk to fun peeeeps!

THREE GIFTS YOU WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE:
1. YOU! hahah
2. Eternal lifee XD
3. uhms. a white colored blazer (:

THREE OF YOUR FAVOURITE HOBBIES:
1. Singinggg~ la la la
2. running. haha. fine that isnt really my FAVOURITE but oh well. haha
3. chillaxingg. (:

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO FOR VACATION:
1. US. the last time i went there was when i was...11 turning 12? couldnt go into salt lake temple yet :(
2. Japan. nice place, nice shopping
3. Paradise. haha

THREE PLACES YOU FIND MOST EXOTIC AND WANT TO GO TO:
1. Greece
2. Hawaii
3. Caribbean

THREE FAVOURITE DRINKS:
1. Water.
2. Hot/cold Chocolaate
3. Milkk X)

THREE THINGS FOUND IN YOUR BAG:
1. Lappy
2. Scriptures (had seminary todayy)

3. spare shirt for runningg

THREE FAVOURITE COLOURS:
1. Pink (ties)
2. Blue (eyes)
3. Purple (cows) hahaha

TOP THREE HANGOUTS:
1. Home.
2. Church.
3. Treadmill? haha

TOP THREE YOU LOVE SO MUCH:
1. Churchh!
2. Friends X)
3. Familyyy

TOP THREE "THINGS" SPECIAL TO YOU:
1. Gospel aka atonement and all
2. My family, home and friends (exactly the same as ally)
3. My shoes and bike

TOP THREE THAT MAKES YOU HAPPY LATELY:
1. having fun with shenzhen youths of Zion (haha. yeah grand name XD)
2. Finishing 2 Rocky movies so far
3. seminaryyy!

THREE REASONS WHY YOU ANSWERED THIS SURVEY:
1.Bored
2. really BORed

3. EXTREMILY BORED!!!!

dang its overr! time to find another one to dooo

What my birthday says about me

2009-04-13T18:03:00.001+08:00

Abstract thoughts. Loves reality and abstract. Intelligent and clever. Changing personality. Attractive. Sexy. Temperamental. Quiet, shy and humble. Honest and loyal. Determined to reach goals. Loves freedom. Rebellious when restricted. Loves aggressiveness. Too sensitive and easily hurt. Gets angry really easily but does not show it. Dislike unnecessary things. Loves making friends but rarely shows it. Daring and stubborn. Ambitious. Realizing dreams and hopes. Sharp. Loves entertainment and leisure. Romantic on the inside not outside. Superstitious and ludicrous. Spendthrift. Tries to learn to show emotions.

2009-04-12T19:29:00.002+08:00

so many things happened this week. haha. for one, managed to start on my training program. managed to run everyday in school during lunch, run to school from seminary, and even used the trainer to bike. well! one week down, many more weeks to go!

second, general conference was speendid! i lived through a total of 10hours and came out of it better spiritually and before. super worth it X)

latest news! the latest wonderful discovery of a PURPLE COW xD hahahaha. combining the most splendid color with the funkiest animal, we give you the purple cow. an animal invented (not by me but by someone else Xp) to help make your world go round.

haha. nope i havent gone mad. not yet at least.

have been really random lately coming up with pick up lines. then zihao asked me why am i still using english pickup lines in china! haha. should use chinese pickup lines. haha. so changed to a chinese pickup line "你吃辣椒吗？难怪这么辣" in literal chinese-english translation:"did you eat chili? no wonder so hot!" haha. then kandace, hahaha. i'm laughing thinking about it. was like ehh? and i had to translate it before she got it XD then she scolded me! haha. called this little boy boyy "spaSSStic" according to her. haha. but i insisted it was "spaRRRRRRRstic" haha. fine maybe i am. haha XD

purple cowwws, green skies, blue eyes, pink ties (:

2009-04-04T16:53:00.000+08:00

epic picture. XD cute ehh? haha.

2009-04-02T21:20:00.003+08:00

shall post my recording of dejeuner du matin up soon. its another french poem that talks about how love might not exist at all. quite a seemingly random poem again but deep meaning. sorry to those i april fooled telling that i'm gonna stay in singapore for good in june. X) my friend did it to me when i came to sch then got a shock. haha. but hopefully i can go back for vacation. anyway, so i'm training with the soccer and swim team. dnu if i can make the team. (hope i dont anywayy. ruining my training program) so i'm starting to train for a half ironman XD but i looked at my training timetable and i'm going goshh. i'll probably slack off halfway. but anyway, i wanna take part in the disneyland osim triathlon and hainan island half ironman! wheee (: gonna sing a duet soon in april for some concert thingy. from phantom, "all i ask of you"

2009-03-29T15:31:00.002+08:00

wah ystdy myra suddenly freaked me out when she that ben and i were asking her the same things. srsly....there has got to be some castatrophic clash of events in outer space or something for that to really occur. or if not it must be we great minds (: myra are u sure u are awake or conscious?! knock knock

must be earth day. that's what kandace said. along with some inspiration from above. (DONT PLAY WITH STRAYS PLEASE! no matter how cute they might be)

2009-03-28T22:43:00.003+08:00

2 posts in one day!

last week in church the guy who gave the talk told this reaaal funny story that was originally told by some apostle i think. it goes something like this:

there were 3men in a cafe. the first man said i'm going to texas to get away from the mormons. the second said i'm going to hawaii to get away from the mormons. and the last man said i'm going to go to chicago to get away from the mormons. at this time, this guy in a tie walked up to them and said well then you three can just go to hell because there sure wont be any mormons there!

cool stuff ehh! haha. see i listen in church (:

Pour toi mon amour

2009-03-28T22:23:00.002+08:00

Pour toi mon amour
Je suis allé au marché aux oiseaux
Et j'ai acheté des oiseaux
Pour toi
Mon amour
Je suis allé au marché aux fleurs
Et j'ai acheté des fleurs
Pour toi
Mon amour
Je suis allé au marché à la ferraille
Et j'ai acheté des chaînes
De lourdes chaînes
Pour toi
Mon amour
Et je suis allé au marché aux esclaves
Et je t'ai cherchée
Mais je ne t'ai pas trouvée
Mon amour

For You My Love

I went to the market, where they sell birds
and I bought some birds
for you
my love
I went to the market, where they sell flowers
and I bought some flowers
for you
my love
I went to the market, where they sell chains
and I bought some chains
heavy chains
for you
my love
And then I went to the slave market
and I looked for you
but I did not find you there
my love

you know intitially i read this poem and was like whoa. can there be a more random person on earth? go to the market and talk about love? but reading it a few more times and after discussing it with the teacher, i managed to understand what it meant. sometimes, we go about finding for love, looking for love and doing everything to try and get that love. in the end, sometimes, we try to hard and it slips away, just like a bar of soap. and well other times, maybe the love just doesnt exist...or, unattainable. and that, is usually the case. or so i think. and so i refect. is this the case with me? am i chasing something i cant get?

i have to analyse this peom for french class and the interesting thing about french love poetry, or at least poems written by this poet Jacques Prevert is that he talks about love and described it beautifully. but what hes really trying to say is that love doesnt exist...but i know it does. i'm sure it does. i hope...it does...

2009-03-07T22:03:00.003+08:00

"Everytime you kick a Mormon (or Mormonism), you kick it upstairs, you never kick it downwards. The Lord Almighty so orders it." President Brigham Young

I love him. He's really such a funny prophet and this is one of the cool things that he said. There was another incident of this brother in America who used to serve a mission among the red indians. and so he adopted this little red indian girl after his mission and raised her as his own. when she grew up however and got of age to marry, many shady guys like cowboys and ruffians and wierdos came to his door to look for his daughter. and so this brother was really worried about his daughter's future with all these "bad guys" looking for her. he then went to find President Young and asked President Young what he could do to make these shady guys stop seeing his daughter and that her daughter would be able to marry into a good family and have a good future. guess what President Young said...MARRY HER. yes. he asked the brother to marry his own adopted daughter. President Young said you want those guys to stop seeing her, then marry her. but that was when plural marraiges were still allowed. funny huh President Young, but still, there is no doubt that he is a real prophet of God.

2009-02-27T10:04:00.003+08:00

i'm supposed to do a post on religion. ltr ltr. (:

2009-02-20T22:26:00.002+08:00

censored for public view but yeah. i havent frigging figured how to even solve the most basic rubiks cube. so had MUN today and decided to be the big evil guy to create trouble for everybody so talked alot. haha. but still almost fell asleep. then there was dinner and dance but i left halfway coz the 6 dj's. yes 6! were so lugi hopeless. like i was there for 30min and in that 3o min they changed the song halfway 10times, never once used the faders. and mind you and went to look at the equiptment b4 hand and they had 10faders on hand...song choice was retarded and so it wasnt worth my time to be there and so i scooted off. whee.have last session of MUN tmrw. zzz...anyway, i'm guessing "boo" is a little mean person who takes joy in seeing a pityful small boyboy crack his head just to guess the person's identity. MEANIE MEANIE MEANIE MEANIE

(mouse) hahaha! reveal yourself!

2009-02-18T14:55:00.000+08:00

picture of the next period! haha

2009-02-18T13:34:00.005+08:00

Picture of the period. aha. stupid ang mohs...

its now asian literature. haha. boring...so here i am again. haha. i love having a laptop. last time i didnt have a laptop so i write letters when bored Xp but now have laptop and no one to write letters to so blog lor. haha.
"Col. Mustard: How many husbands have you had?
Mrs. White: Mine or other women's?"

lol. ok i'm getting real random and lame...anyways, i am super scared. have absolutely no idea if i can meet the qualification time for the swim competition...howw howw? :(

ok. nxt period. later!

2009-02-17T09:01:00.002+08:00

ok. it has been long since i last updated. but its because i'm BUSYYYY. haha. with the MUN coming up and stuff. but oh wells, due to overwhelming demand, haha, i shall take some time of to do a short post now during math. haha. and guess what i'm doing for math..."what is the sixth root of 729..." like kill me easy. haha. but no complaints there. managed to post uo some photos on facebook yesterday. some reaally old photos. haha. for the fun of it. Xp
zzz. today is a loong day. so math now, then chem...then theres pe and french and soccer training after school.
i'm asking benji to help me arrange a song or 2. and send me a few songs that he had already did up. haha. coz me choir teacher asking me to do a performance so. haha. benji has the priviledge of getting his songs sung. haha. reason why i'm doing this, 1) coz its rather fun Xp. 2) coz if i do this well, i can get a good grade in choir. haha.
bah. and so the people here are really different than in singapore. i'm totally sick and tired of putting on a fake accent. totally want to speak some singlish again. like SERIOUSLY. I MISS IT! haha. no more wah lao, wah biang, wah seh. hahahaha. crazy. oh well, c'est la vie...haha. enuff for now. better go do some work 1st, post again ltr. haha

2009-02-07T23:07:00.002+08:00

knee how (: so here i am in this huge country. super dirty really. like on my first day, we went out for dinner, then some water was like squirting out from the floor. brownish water. guess what is was. haha. SEWAGE! yeah. the pipe bursts around every 2 days. joy...then we wanted to take a cab to church and there was one outside the apartment waiting like at the taxi stand. but it was covered by 40 houseflies. like seriouslyy. not joking. not exaggerating and even when the car was moving, the housefly just stays on the car. sick really. and it stinks and so many other things but. haha. oh well! yes. a few interesting courses. haha. french! sexy romantic language (: haha. then theres international politics. another cool one. seeing as i might wanna be a diplomat this is a good subject. sad theres no cooking class. (not home econs! like real cooking) or baking for that matter. haha.

bah. and i thought that i can get a break in here. yar right. tmrw have byc, ym presidency meeting. then next week have apc and have to give a sacrament talk. dang.

2009-01-28T22:56:00.003+08:00

over the past 2 weeks, i have eaten pizza twice, kfc thrice, 3 cakes, steamboat and i dont know what else. dang am i gonna get fat before i leave. wahaha. and its a conspiracy seriously. to make me cry...

NJCHOIR!

2009-01-21T20:55:00.002+08:00

craazyyy stuff. i seriously have enough of needles for a while. in the past month i have had 12 injections. bah. inject until no more place to inject liao. then today, went for acupuncture for free. (pays to have a uncle working as a physician) but anyway, yar. two needles into me all thanks to the fact that i injured my ankle and made it swollen. to what happened was this. he take the needle then just knock it into me. that was fine la. no feeling at all. but then he started to twist and turn the needle and push it deep and and that was craaaaap. whole leg went numb. but oh well, at least my leg feels alot better now. so interesting tcm. i wonder how it works. all the qi path and stuff. real cool. anyway he wanted to do a treatment for my pimples too... -.- but he said that one would REALLY hurt. so he said next time then he do. coz that one got pain and got blood come out so next time. haha.

hmms. so possible career paths i'm thinking of are, foreign diplomat. i think its super cool what they do and well, they use their mouth alot, get to stay in a foreign country, its like a paid for holiday man! haha. but seriously. nice job. then i dont mind being a chef too. i absolutely loooooove cooking and loooooove baking. (: and i'm actually rather ok at it. haha. mayb mayb i dnu. haha.

2009-01-21T20:53:00.001+08:00

buahas. long overdue post on the new year eve dance. the ambiance was cool. the music was fabulous and the company was GREAT. and the dj's. hahaha. dang werent they splendid. the dance would not have been half as nice if the dj's werent casey and ben who were awesome. haha. the songs were really good. haha. everybody was like chao high. hahaha. then slow dance, had 2 dances. baaahhhhs.
dang am i gonna miss you guys......so many things i still wanna do! have another performance with the FFF (next talentnite mayb? fine not mayb MUST. HAHA) perform with nj choirrrr!!! bahhss. and so many more. so many things so little timeee...
anyway, went for lunch with ben, myra and sam last week at swensens where we saw sherman. then the 2 of them, myra and sam, threw all my stuff in my wallet, well most of the stuff, becoz it was "junk"...well fine a 2005 calander, and 2004 receipt. aha. but bahhs. they threw THAT receipt away. oh well. at least theres nth holding me back to that past now.
hmm so i was thinking. u know i would normally moan at how much i'm loosing because i'm going to china. but maybe i should be a little positive. and look at what i have gained instead.
so far i have GAINED the chance to be born the the church, where i've had the gospel in my life. i have GAINED the company of maaaanyyyy greaaat friends in church and yeup elsewhere tooo friends who have been so supportive, so fun and so everything. wahaha. (: then going to a sch with 2 guys and 7 girls definitely a gain. lolz. jkjki prefer local girls thanks (: and my grandma will slaughter me if i hook up with and ang moh. hahahha.
what have i lost? i have lost the company of a few negative friends that i should have removed myself from a long time ago anyway. i have lost a whole load of heataches and bad memories. not a bad trade eh?

2008-12-30T21:17:00.002+08:00

since the 5th of june? i feel like a fool...a fool that has been played with...yes i know i promised jiayi i wont go do anything to find him. but i really cnt help it sometimes. walk past hwa chong and see the bunch of them doing "drills" i feel like just walking into the middle of them and seek him out. but a promise is a promise. dnu if he still reads the blog but if he does. haha. oh wells. a promise i made a promise i will keep. called honor. smth that is not that common. sadly. oh well, i wont seek him out but that doesnt mean i didnt hope
that he wont seek me out. was hoping that he wld be dumb enuff to make a confrontation when i went to hc for the choir workshop in nov. cld have worked out some. has been long since i got into a good exercise. dang. oh well. but i prob wont do anything to him. for personal reasons that i'm not going to state. so hope he brings some friends that he doesnt like much so that at least he wont miss them. blehh. forgiveness is such a hard thing...

2008-12-28T20:52:00.002+08:00

this is my 184th post. haha. i dunno why i took notice Xp under normal circumstance i wld curse teh world and say tks for screwing up my life. now i might not even be able to get a high sch diploma in china...so yes. thats under normal circumstances. but, surprisingly i'm not worried. not really surprisingly. they say your patriachal blessing gives you direction in life, gives you comfort. it really does...really

2008-12-21T23:23:00.002+08:00

CHRISTMAS IS COMING! its the hap-hap happiest season!

the 20th was such a special dayy. in more than one way. rare that you can give and yet receive love on the same day. went to do the service project that was magnificently led by ying er the music genius. brought smiles to the old folk's face. so that was nice...but david, sherman, casey and i super zzz...stand there ring bell, hit drum, hit washboard. but at least we were a part lurh. so thats good (: got my teacher's cert and my deacon's cert that is well, 2year's due. never got it until now...oh well. haha. priest cert next! must go out for movie with the church doooodes.

20th was also one of the happiest day of my life. got a few things that will last forever (: i hope. haha. will it? one is my printed patriachal blessing. read it again. amazing how the blessing is given by Elder Tan but not by Elder Tan?

the other gift, well. haha. not going to say what it is but i really hope it lasts forever. hmm? (: pleaase...

look at the stars...(: and count your blessings.

2008-12-18T22:47:00.001+08:00

loving youuuu always...

2008-12-08T16:33:00.002+08:00

haha. decided to put up some new music. haha. to suit my mood. heheh. and situation...leaving on a jet plane. haha.

ok. got my black belt in primary2. haha. a record i think. haha. thinking of taking up krav maga now. get back the eye of the tiger again.

2008-12-08T15:38:00.004+08:00

The rules:
Bold the statements that are true to you
Italise the statements that you WISH are true
Leave the Fibs alone
Then, stab 5 guys to do the same test.

I miss somebody right now.
I dont watch TV these days.
I own lots of books.
i wear glasses or contact lenses
I love to play video games.
I've tried marijuana.
I have been in a threesome.
I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship.
I believe honesty is usually the best policy.
I curse sometimes. not proud of it...
I have changed a lot mentally over the last year.
I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me.
I'm TOTALLY smart.
I've broken someone's bones.
I'm paranoid sometimes.
I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar-free.
I need money right now. haha! any donations? (:
I love sushi.
I talk really, really fast.
I have long hair.
I have lost money in Las Vegas.
I have at least one sibling.
I have worn fake hair/fingernails/eyelashes in the past.
I couldn't survive without Caller I.D
I like the way I look.
I am usually pessimistic.
I have a lot of mood swings.
I have a hidden talent.
I'm always hyper no matter how much sugar I have
I have a lot of friends. i do rite? haha
I am currently single
I have pecked someone of the same sex.
I enjoy talking on the phone.
I practically live in sweatpants or PJ pants.
I love to shop.
I enjoy window shopping.
I would rather shop then eat.
I don't hate anyone. I dislike them.
I'm a pretty good dancer.
I'm completely embarrassed to be seen with my mother.
I have a cell phone...
I believe in God.
I watch MTV on a daily basis.
I have passed out drunk in the past 6 months.
I've rejected someone before.
I have no idea what i want to do for the rest of my life.
I want to have children in the future.
I have changed a diaper before.
I've called the cops on a friend before.
I'm not allergic to anything.
I have a lot to learn.
I have been with someone at least 10 years older or younger.
I am shy around the opposite sex.
I have tried alcohol before.
I have made a move on a friend's significant other or crush in the past.
I own the "South Park" movie.
I would die for my best friends.
I think that Pizza Hut has the best pizza.
I have used my sexuality to advance my career.
I love Michael Jackson, scandals and all.
Halloween is awesome because you get free candy.
I watch Spongebob Squarepants and I like it.
I have dated a close friends's ex.
I am happy at this moment!!
I'm obsessed with guys
I study for tests most of the time. wahaha! i do i do alright! believe it or not
I tie my shoelaces differently from anyone I've ever met.
I can work on a car.
I love my job.
I am comfortable with who I am right now.
I have more than just my ears pierced.
I walk barefoot wherever I can.
I have jumped off a bridge.
I love sea turtles.
I spend ridiculous money on makeup.
I plan on achieving a major goal/dream.
I'm proficient in a musical instrument.
I worked at McDonald's restaurant.
I hate office jobs.
I love sci-fi movies.
I think water rules.
I went college out of state.
I like sausage.
I love kisses.
I fall for the worst people.
I adore bright colours.
I can't live without black eyeliner.
I don't know why the hell I just did this stupid thing. thanks lurh ben!
I usually like covers better than originals.
I can pick up things with my toes.
I can't whistle.
I can move my tongue in waves, much like a snake's slither.
I have ridden/owned a horse. ridden...
I still have every journal I've ever written in.
I can't stick to a diet.
I talk in my sleep.
I try to forget things by drowning them out with loads of distractions. note the word tryyy...
Climbing trees is a brilliant past-time.
I have jazz in my blood.
I wear a toe ring.
I have a tattoo.
I can't stand at LEAST one person that I work with.
I am a caffeine junkie.
I know what cosplaying is.
I have been to over 15 conventions.
I will collect anything, and the more nonsensical, the better.
I'm an artist.
I only clean my room when necessary.
I like a person of the same sex.
I love being happy.
I am an adrenaline junkie.

Will stab:
1)amanda mak. lol

2)eugene. heh

3)Jac

4)marcus!!

5)ally. haha. oh wait she still have exam.

2008-12-07T21:10:00.003+08:00

yes. Armany...the chinese version of it i suppose...and the weird names some ppl have. one person was called eraser...another called rainy...like helloo! haha.
oh yeahh man. i wont die in china coz they have bakua! haha. grr. hope i can stay for new year eve dance. haha.

man will i miss singapore. haha. all the frens here. so lets tick of a random few. haha. okok nj there are alottt. haha. cj, BENJAMIN! haha. and hes not even in cjc anymore...then there is nap. haha. ngee ann poly. the school with the mega huge campus that i got lost in. yeah. haha. casey and kandace. haha. 2 retardedly funny and cool people (: st nicks. haha. dun noe many ppl frm stnicks my age . i know 3 issit? or more. haha. good frens with 2 of them who are really crazy ppl. (Xp must be the sch larrh) and the last one, if she wasnt trying to kill me everytime we meet, lol. mayb can be gd frens XD heheheh. soo many more people. see thats the thing when you change sch every 2years. 3primary schs. 2 sec schs. madness...

i've got to get a job. i've got to finish making all the presents i need to. i've got to get my life straight!

pictures! haha

2008-12-03T21:51:00.004+08:00

damn wasnt i cute. hahaha! still am heheh. find me if you can
lover's bridge
the place to be (:
haha. i like smelly tofu....yarr right.

2008-11-30T21:42:00.001+08:00

Change

2008-11-30T20:30:00.003+08:00

You know i didnt really support President Elect Obama. I was supporting McCain. Why? Obama is what America WANTS. not what America NEEDS. america wants a celebrity. a symbol. but what they really need is someone firm, who knows his stuff who can pull them out of this crisis. President Elect Obama said in his recent speech that this financial crisis is serious, not easy to handle and will take a long time to handle. something of a 6yr period if i'm not wrong. cant remember his actual words. but to me, this is just his way of saying, "hey, if i dont manage to cure this, not my fault! coz it needs a loooooong term solution..." but President Elect Obama is really smart. no doubt about that so. yeah! maybe it wont be so bad after all.?

one thing i like about him though is his slogan. "CHANGE" noble of him. he aims for a CHANGE?in the situation in Iraq, a CHANGE?in the economic crisis and stuff. and till date, he has successfully brought about no CHANGE?

but change is something i believe everyone wants to be able to bring about. it doesnt matter what we change. be it ourself, others our dog (i dont have one. haha) change is what we want to do. those who are really unsuccessful in bring about change are called terrorists...those who are really successful, they are usually called presidents. haha. (or so says tom clancy...)

i myself hope that i have been able to bring about my fair share of change. i have done lots, but i dont think i have done enoughh...ok finee. in barker, prefect exco was okayy, then debate exco and choir pres for what 2mths because i had to transfer school? so not much time to create change. then went to nj. where i'm like the jnr. so not much done too. kinda feel a little disappointed though. aimed to get champions in debate and be ranked top 5 best speaker, aimed to be get gold with honours for syf, cant do it too. but when you guys get it, at least i can say that i was PART of a gold with honours kwair (:

you know. i'm really lucky that i have such good church friends who help change me for the better whenever i needed 'em. always reminding me to be good. wait sorry. for guys its called advice. for girls its called nag. lol. not i say one. haha. pres skelton said it once in a talk. heheh. but joking. really really. they have been a great support. then school frens. like eugene. keep making sure i can learn the songs. super senior. then like chibi. haha. make me feel old but happy. lol. i dont feel like talking bout negative changes although there are alot. people who changed such that i dont really know if i know them anymore.

you see the thing is that the world changes. people change. so sometimes you dont know whats happening. who that person is anymore. but one thing stays the same. the church. the gospel the Lord. He will always be there. His church will always remain strong. and in the church we can always find safety, security and peace.

2008-11-27T21:11:00.001+08:00

managed to go to the gym twice and swim once this week in shenzen. 2hrs plus per time. haha. not bad. then went to swim too but brrrr. the water was super cold. like NUMBING cold. who ask me to go swim outdoors during winter. lol.

Homo rights

2008-11-26T21:03:00.005+08:00

with all the hype over proposition 8, i think i shall do a really short post on that 1st. before doing one on the theory and construction of knowledge. exciting stuff that one.

interesting thing. this is the 1st time that the church as actually straightforwardly stated their stand in a social issue without 1st being asked about it. usually they dont say anything. but this time its different. proposition8 had the potential to change california, america and well, even the world. why? because globalisation is really just = to americanisation. take a look at the fastest and biggest effects of globalisation. macdonalds, coke...you get the idea. so when america changes, the world changes. thats why the church had to speak out and advise to vote for prop8. even then, it was only passed by a VERY small margin. scaryy.

so. gays, nature or nuture. and these are all just my personal opinions. really if homosexuality was meant to be, God would have created Adam and Steve, not Adam and Eve. so really the natural order of things. animals in noah's ark, one male, one female. gosh what chaos it would have been if the animals were homo...so really. so yes. nuture. or i wouldnt really say nuture since no young child is allowed to live with any homo parent now to make it a cause of nuture. i would call it one's free choice that makes one homo.

anyway, people say if we allow them to get married, it will show greater tolerance, less discrimination. such nonsense. discrimination will just take a diferent form. or actually, it will increase since gays will be easily identified now that they are allowed to get married. they'll get rejected from jobs, schools and such. of course the organisations will deny it but reallyy...inevitable. then there will be preventing them from adopting children. young ones at least. reason for not allowing them to adopt young children? research has shown that young children mimick the behaviours of those that they are in prolonged contact with. so yes. we cannot allow that can we? yes they still have a choice to change in the future. but i dont want to take that chance. see. discrimination still. not good for them.

ok. then please dont complain that your rights are being compromised. coz by all means, have your right and continue being gay. no one stopping you. and i dont really care much. in fact, some of the NICEST people i have homo tendency. and dont go complaining that because the catholic church or whatever votes for proposition 8 and deny gay marraige means that God doesnt love you. God loves all His children. but it doesnt mean he encourages them to do whatever they want with their life. Family a Proclaimation states that marraige is sacred between a man and a woman and the only way to heaven is through sacred temple marraige. expressing disapproval does not mean no love.

so yes. i'm against gay marraige. and looking at current trends, the world is getting more liberal as a whole. the next time this matter is put to vote again, things will probably be not be the same...

2008-11-23T22:06:00.004+08:00

To do list:

Gym...swim...

Make the presents i'm supposed to make

Go out for movie and dinner with friends

Do a post on Science vs Religion

Do a post on Gays, Nature vs Nuture

Feel intellectual in the process XD

old pics never posted

2008-11-23T21:30:00.002+08:00

i realise i have a lot of these old pictures that i never put up. so there. haha

i was tired...
lol. i thought that drink was lemonade then i got a shock when it was suuuper bitter. it was grapefruit juice. yuuuckkyyyy.

my super adorable couusin! haha

Pictures from taipei- 1

2008-11-23T20:54:00.004+08:00

picture taken without flash. look at our hands with no bodies. haha

now with flash. haha. we're in some funky chinese place where to get in you have to find this secret button on a statue and press it to open the door. haha.
ate at this place called the modern toilet. so everything served in like toilet bowls, urinals and stufff, haha.

yeahh and this is my seaat. haha, there was some mysterious thing inside. lols.. scaryy
me and my bro in this shiny uhm. thing on the door of a old palace. haha.

more pics ltr when i'm bored. haha

2008-11-22T21:57:00.002+08:00

presenting to you the Fantabulous Fergerlicious Five. XD back from taipei. off to shenzen on mon. wheee...zzz. MUST GET BACK BY THE 28TH! dun careee. haha.
and chibi's, who is jiayi, muffins ROX MY SOX! HAHA. super nice. thaaanks! (:

Star Wars - Funnyyyyy

2008-11-22T21:19:00.001+08:00

2008-11-12T20:07:00.003+08:00

RULE #1 People who have been tagged must write their answers on their blogs and replace any question that they dislike with a new question formulated by themselves.

RULE #2 Tag 5 people to do this quiz and those who are tagged cannot refuse.These people must state who they were tagged by and cannot tag the person whom they were tagged by continue this game by sending it to other people.

1. Do you have secrets?
yeahhh. but if i tell you, i'm gonna have to kill ya. XD

2. Would you fall in love with a girl younger than you?
wahhh...what a question. if shes the right one (: but only chibi i think will noe the answer hmm? haha

3. Do you enjoy going to school NJ.?
theres the class! haha. the chibi! the choir! XD all start with C. haha. oh chio bu also start with C. haha. but nj dun have any! haha. or mayb have laaaa. lol. better be politicality correct. XD

4. What would you do with a billion dollars?
buy a few properties 1st since the prices are friggin loww noww. then get a private jet so that i can fly back to singapore anytime i want after i leaave. get the chibi and myy freens smth. (: and donate the rest to the church. oh! after putting some aside for the futute aka mission, honeymooon Xp

5. Would you love your ex again?
dnu?

6. Which is more blessed, loving someone or being loved by someone?
of course everone wants to be loved but i would say loving someone, caring for someone gives you sooo much joyy.

7. List out your 15 favourite songs:
Lucky
I just called to say I love you
With or without you
Pretty Woman
Hey Jude
Viva La Vida
Imagine
Redeemer of Isreal
I'll go where you want me to go
When a man loves a woman
Every Woman in world
Angels
Day tripper
Ticket to ride
Love, me

8. If you're single and your crush is already attached, what would you do?
I wont whack the daylights out of him will I? nahh. joking only. i'm too nice. lol. NOT self praise.

9. Is there anything that has made you extremely happy?
recently? yeahh. i got my patriachal blessing

10. What makes you angry?
those who lie...but lets not go into that.
those who think they are friggin big but are not...zzz...lets not get into that too.
those who backstab.
those who are LATE! hahaha. fine laa. mayb that one wont get angry. i very hard get angry de actually. (:

11. How would you see yourself in 10 years time?
Finished my ns and my mission! (: studying in Tuft's IR program. hopefully with that ahem...special someone...

12. Who is currently the most important people to you?
Famileee.
Church friends! including the fantabulous fergurlicious five!
chibi! XD
and mark...ooh well, doesnt really matter if shes important to me if i'm not to her isnt it? lol! and please...of course mark isnt her real name! she's mark/oinkyy whatever you wanna call her laa! not telling you the real name.

13. What is the most important thing in life?
your values. mhmm.

14. Single or attached?
single...

15. What is your favourite colour?
pink is hawt. real men wear pink. but hello kity is damn gay okay?

16. Would you give all in a relationship?
yes i would. but a relationship does not only involve one person rites? but i will. yes.

17. What would be the 1st thing you say/shout/scream when you've reach the top of Mount Everest?
i dont think i'll have any energy to shout sorry to disappoint. haha

18. What are you doing now?
the quiz...

19. Do you prefer chocolate drink or coffee?
the question is which of the following can i drink...and if i cant drink coffee, then how can i prefer it.

20. 5 people I have tagged:
casey. haha. lol
benji! after your A's
i would tag trent and zl too. lol. all part of the FFF but lol. wont. haha
LISA! ahhha! punishment XD jkjk. haha
i dnu laa. whoever else. haha

2008-11-02T22:19:00.002+08:00

pictures from seminary grad. prob will be some of the last ppl with these guys. blehh.

2008-10-31T21:36:00.002+08:00

why did i wait at all. i rationalised with myself. oh well, you were busy. to get busier, it wont work out now. so i'll wait. and after a year maybe, we will both have more time. but now, time is something i do not have at all...what went wrong? i waited and in the end we drifted. what tore us apart. i have been a fool. yeahh. i'm sorry. i'm still waiting. still keeping hope in my heart...

i'm gonna make FULL use of my time noww. no time to waste really. compose song, compose poem. go out with chibi and other best frens.

2008-10-28T21:15:00.002+08:00

had choir todayy. ms lim was in a relatively good mood XD but zzz. hvnt confirm syf song yet. haha. last day of sch tmrw! wahahaha

2008-10-27T20:50:00.002+08:00

went cycling early in the morn today. average speed of 27km/h top speed of 35km/h. haha. but i got chased by 5dogs in total during the bike...zzz...so got slowed down alot. oh wait. actually when i started to get chased by the dogs i started going even faster. haha. stuupid Shepherd dog. haha.

did some family history work today. didnt know my great-grandpa was so cool. his real name is "yang wu long" but he was given the reputation name of "hei long" aka black dragon. during the time he was alive, Singapore just gained independence. so he help the govt. alot to pull the local population together and won 2public service awards for it. He was also one of the only people that the secret societies then feared. noting that the secret societies then were still going strong. once, the founder of Yeo's (the drink company) son was kidnapped by the secret society. the founder went to the police but they couldnt do anything so they went to my great-grandpa for help who was also respected by the members of the secret society. going along with 2parangs to meet the secret society, he managed to get the founder's child out alive with just a small token sum instead of a huge ransom. such a hero. so proud to be his descendent! haha

2008-10-26T21:56:00.002+08:00

had dinner with maternal external family. hvnt seen so many of them in ages. my older cuz, hong hong gor. my big jiu jiu. haha. hes super funny. hahaha. anyway, we were celebrating my grandpa's 79th bday. haha.mhmm.

barker has missed out on the meth cup trophy for the 13958019571th time...zzz. disappointing but oh well. thought they could beat mgs. YES. MGS TEAM A until...oh well. dont wanna say. but yeah. they have improved so thats good. ahha.

pres. skelton spoke today at church. he has an incredible humour. british humour. haha. but mhmm. it was a wonderful talk. (: zzz. tired. haha

2008-10-23T19:06:00.002+08:00

Tens Twenties Twisters and Twisties
TEN THINGS ABOUT YOU:
1) Are you single? sadly
2) Are you happy? ask me tmrw when i get my gpa back.
3) Are you bored? totally
4) Are you sad? mayb a little. bleh
5) Are you fat? you must be joking. haha. do i look like jeremy to you? joking. haha. he has lost weight XD
6) Are you a virgin? yeah. a 16year old virgin
7) Are you afraid of the dark? nah
8) Are you good at cooking? haha. should i be modest? haha. okok la
9) Are you sleepy? kinda
10) Are your parents still together? yar~

TEN THINGS ABOUT YOUR LOVE LIFE:
1) Do you believe in love at first sight? i've gotta say yes
2) Have you ever been hurt emotionally? kptesh...yup
3) What is it that you look for in someone? ehh...someone with same interests, errh. happy and cheerful! haha
5) Are you afraid of commitments? nuh uh
6) Have you hugged someone within the last week? brother...haha. doesnt count rite? haha
7) Have you ever had a secret admirer? well thats a secret.
8) Which ex did you love the most? hahaha! lols.
9) Have you ever kissed someone of the same sex? blehh. my bro la ok?
10) Have you ever cheated in a relationship? ...

TEN THIS OR THAT(choose only one):
1) Love or money? Love
2) Hard liquor or beer? none
3) Cats or dogs? Dogs
4) A few best friends or many regular friends? Few best friends
5) Television or internet? Internet (:
6) Pepsi or coke? coke.
7) Wild night out or romantic night in? Romantic night in
8) Money or happiness? Happiness
9) Night or day? Night
10) MSN or phone? i would LOVE to say phone. lols.

TEN HAVE YOU EVER:
1) Been caught sneaking out? i sneak out? *WIDE EYED INNOCENT STARE* seriouslee...
2) Been skinny dipping? hahaha! wtheck. no.
3) Done something you regret? yeahhh. BIG time
4) Bungee jumped? i want to. haha
5) Lied to someone you love? ehh who nvr lie before. even if its just a teeeneee weeenyyy one.
6) Finished an entire jaw breaker? yeahhhh babyyy. haha
7) Have you ever slept in someone else's bed? yeahh. haha. cousin's. lol.
8) Wanted an ex bf/gf back? hmm...cnt say.
9) Cried because you lost a pet? haha. no pet recently
10) Wanted to disappear? yeah.

TEN PREFERENCES:
1) Smile or eyes: Smile
2) Light or dark hair: Dark
3) Hugs or kisses: i'm greedy. give me both XD
4) Shorter or taller: doesnt really matter.
5) Intelligence or attraction: both.
6) Romantic or spontaneous: both
7) Hook-up or relationship: relationship. and right now i hope their's is a hook up
8) Dinner out or takeaways: as long as it's food! hahah!
9) Hot or cute: HALF CUTE! haha. not ugly but adorable. XP
10) Educated or dropout: Educated

TEN LASTS:
1) Last phone call you made: eugene. asked if hv choir then found out that i was late. haha
2) Last phone call you received: ehh. yanqi i think?
3) Last person you hung out with: marcus at the gym
4) Last person you scold vulgarities: love thine enemies.
5) Last person(s) you hugged: wahhhhh! ask how many times liao!
6) Last text message you received: seriouslyyy. if you ask one more time about a handphone...
7) Last person(s) you went to the movies with: good question.
8) Last person/thing you missed: I missed ??? rawr. can dont remind me...mark
9) Last thing you touched: my keyboard.
10) Last person/thing to piss you off: dont ask.