woah... got a lot of new stuff... and for basement bargain prices... man... soooo proud of myself..
haha... and my new shoes.... super cool.... haha...

list of stuff that i got yest:
-canter ankle socks
-canter match socks
-adidas shoes
-adidas polo tee
okie lar... so its not really like a massive shopping spree like choy had in HK... but still....
oh yeah.. and i got a adidas tee-shirt frm choy... haha... thankz gurl...
hrm... looks like i gotta get you ur car le... haha...


played touch with the gurls in the morning.... haha... kinda got trashed by them... i don't think any of the guys really gave it 100%... i was turning on and off throughout... haha... the two funkiest things that i did was chase fyda, run in front of her, stick out my tongue and then tap her.... then there was the cut pass all the way to the wing(alfian) for him to score... haha.... the gurls looked kinda shocked when i cut all of them... haha...



xmas is around the corner... time for the bong family traditions to be dusted off again.... 25th of december is always a big thing in the bong household... we hold the yearly xmas party at our house for family and friends... usually abt 40 ppl some years more.... and we order tables and chairs and put it in the centre of the house in one gigantic table that takes up the whole house... then we lay tableclothes and put all the good food on it... chicken, turkey, duck, beef, xmas hams, lamb, vegtables and all the bounty that God has provided for us... it is really a magnificent sight, if i may say so myself...
this is the second year that we will spend without my beloved grandmother... it doesn't get easier... last year was a emotional dinner... not having my grandmother say grace before dinner... we don't usually say grace before our meals... so xmas is the one time of the year that she can lead all her family and friends in saying grace properly before a meal... last year was different... she wasn't there... altho i know that she was there in spirit, she couldn't be there physically... this year is the same... she'll be there all right... i know it... somehow you can feel it... you can feel her somewhere nearby watching over us and smiling like she always does... just enjoying the presence of all the closet people in her life...

man only has questions that cannot be truely answered.... none of the many questions that he has abt the world he lives in and the world beyond can't really be answered by his own means....

even in physics... a science.... answers obtained are all based on some assumptions that we have abt the world.... evaluating our assumptions is not as simple as it appears... for our assumptions are based on other assumptions... in the end, is anything that we study really undenyable true.... some may argue that it is proven fact... but who is it proven by... ... it's proven by another man.... another identically flawed human being....

the only 100% truely flawless being that i know of is the Man upstairs... as many refer to Him as.... i trust Him to reveal to us what we need to know, when we need to know it... not before, not after... He has His plans for us and though we might not understand it sometimes, we have to have faith in Him and let ourselves fall into His ever supporting arms....






Mr John Lim was the kind of teacher that you felt you could approach whenever you needed advice... not the kind that you would turn 180 degrees and speed away in the opposite direction the moment you see him coming down the corridor... and that is what made him special... i would have liked to know him better.... to be able to appreciate the kind of man he was... he is no longer physically with us... but i'm sure that every NYJCian will never forget Mr John Lim....
Teacher, Mentor and Friend to all....

woah.... 04S4B class outing today.... haha.... had a steamboat over at marina bay.... played some pool before that.... and after that just hung out at dhouby ghaut.... quite fun lar....

before that went shopping with my sis and cousin for xmas prezzies for ourselves and cousins n stuff... haha... it's kinda wierd knowing what you're gonna get for xmas den having to act surprised on the day you open the prezzies.... haha... but we did it like soooooo much faster than expected... like 6 prezzies in 1 1/2 hours..... and all in taka... haha...

hey.... it's nice getting stuff at xmas.... even if it isn't really abt the presents... it is still nice...

you never really know how short life is until someone you know is called to the Lord...
you don't appreciate the time that you have with someone until you can't spend anymore time with them...

if you knew when everyone's "time" is,
would you treat them any different...
would you like them any better...
would you talk with them any more...


nanyang has truely lost a pillar of the school... You couldn't find an NYJCian that didn't know who Mr John Lim was...

condolences to the family of Mr and Mrs John Lim...
+May God bless them and their families+

helped out at the ECG xmas party yest with boon and fawwaz.... played a few songs with fawwaz.... rather... I played and he sang lar... his stupid finger lar... cannot play anything... haha... had some great food and a great time.... didn't know that the SFX youth choir would be there.... meet some old friends.... said hi etc....

Christmas is around the corner again... the most beautiful time of the year tainted by commercialism.... we exchange presents with each other, expecting someone to give something back for the present that we give them... yet God gave us the greatest gift that anyone could ever give.... He give us His son to eventually die and redeem us from damnation... and He gave this gift without expectation of getting any sort of returns from it.... i'm not here to preach... but i just want ppl to know that there is more to xmas than the parties and the presents and the abundant food and rudolph and santa and the rest of it... there is also a deeper meaning to xmas that many people neglect...

+Lord be in my mind, so that I may think of You+
+Lord be in my lips, so that I may speak of You+
+Lord be in my heart, so that I may love You+

dammit... lost the stupid SP match... a match that i seriously thought that we had a fighting chance to win....

we fell to two kinda early tries in the first period.... and the rest of the period was spent defending...

the second period was by far our best... the whole period was played in their half.... and we had many 22 metre raids... but the try came from a scrum.... down the shortside, the blindside, whatever you chose to call it... i just love it.... used our 8-9-15 move... but in the end we didn't need the 15.... i tapped boon's butt, his signal to pick the ball and pop it to me.... and that is exactly what he did.... i recieved the ball and made my run... the standoff, full-back and blindside winger were already expecting a blind move and they all had drifted over to cover... but there was just too much space for me... i fended off the tackles from the standoff and the full-back and spun out of the winger's last ditch tackle.... and yes... i finally scored my first try for the team in an official match, not in a training situation.... really a highlight of my "career" and i really thank God for the sight to call the move and the presence of mind to get the ball past the line... after that try, the problems started... soon after the kickoff, fawwaz dislocated his finger.... man... gross... so he had to be taken to the hospital.... after that all the positions were jumbled around....

the start of the third period saw us equalising through dominic.... this guy that peerose brought down.... again... from a scrum.... he took the ball and drove it over the line with the help of alfian butting him on.... after that... i guess it got bad... partially my fault... since fawwaz had to be taken off, jamal put me into the standoff position.... and i didn't really perform in the position... i just don't really know how to operate in the situation.... but i wasn't getting any good service frm the scrumhalf... wad was i supposed to do... it is looking at the game frm a different angle frm my usual half-back role.... we went downhill from there... let in four tries... final score 6-2....

three periods, three different positions... out-centre in the first, scrumhalf in the second and standoff in the third... of the three, my favourite is being scrumhalf.... i just function normally in the role.... i don't have to think... i know what to do.... in all the other positions that i have played in, fullback, winger, out-centre and standoff... i just feel very gabra.... like dunnoe wad to do... not comfortable... not in my element... hey... i just noticed... i only have to play in-centre before i can say that i have played every position in the backline... haha... not that i wanna play in-centre... i'm just not cut out to be a centre....

got a few knocks for all the stuff that i did today... my nose got hit in the first period and my nose started bleeding.... not that serious lar... i just played on... blood on my jersey... cool huh... haha... then now i have a slightly sprained right shoulder that i can't lift up and something wrong with my left hip... can't rotate my left leg normally... but i don't care... i don't give a rat's buttocks... this is for the game that i love... for college and for my team...

somehow the loss today wasn't that bad cuz we managed to "crack the egg"... scored two... one frm me and one frm a guest player.... not to shabby.... my only regret was that i couldn't play scrumhalf for long... just when i was getting into the situation, jamal called me up for standoff duties.... darn it... i think that we could have scored again if everyone had stayed in their positions instead of getting shuffled around.... and i think we could have won... but like wad BX told me... anything can happen in rugby... you just don't know what will happen... and you gotta be ready to play in any position that needs to be filled...

i'll be working to that....

super sick.... came home sniffing and sneezing.... now feeling a bit warm....
and the SP match is tmr... and i so wanna play and redeem myself after last weeks horrors....

we painted the field today.... by we i mean me and abang... fawwaz came earlier before work and helped to paint a few lines and mark out a couple more... but the rest was done by me and abang... haha... and we did it in pretty good time too.... it was all done in a few hours... its not the nicest field that we have painted... but it still looks pretty decent...

suffering now.... gotta carry a tissue box everywhere i go.... and there is this pile of used tissues that keeps growing and growing til i clear it every few minutes.... argh!! can't take it... i hate being sick... it really sucks...

repercussions are an indirect impact that is produced by an action that you have taken... call it karma or whatever you want to... do whatever you do has consequences... and whatever you do, you better be sure that you can handle whatever comes ur way cuz of what you did.... i have done a few things that i regret but when i look back i realise that there is only one way to look... and that is forward.... but i also realise that there are a lot things that i don't regret... i don't regret making the choices that i have made cuz if i hadn't made those choices, i wouldn't have met all the fantastic ppl that i know today... so guys... thanks for being a part of my life....


no regrets... ever....

all hail the four goal hero... haha... in case you're wondering, we played soccer not rugby... so that's one of the reasons i scored four GOALS instead of four TRIES... haha... but four tries would be good too... haha...

the o level students cancelled totally last min... so we couldn't have the match.... so Jamal decided to play soccer with us... to "train our fitness".... haha... riiiight....

well... other than that, the day was kinda normal.... the OGL workshop thingy and all the activities.... had a lot of fun... but i'm sure tired.... hope that i will make the final cut to become an OGL... i need the service hrs... and i really wanna be a part of the orientation expirience again.... but on the other side this time...

its gonna be tight.... fawwaz and i are doing a little something for some episipsy patients on sat.... yupps... this saturday... and we haven't even practiced or discussed wad songs to play... darn....

i was thinking of doing:
-The Drama Summer by The Starting Line
-Eight of Nine by The Ataris
-Looking Back on Today by The Ataris

plus fawwaz has a song he wrote.... hrm.. i think it'll be good....

woah... damn tired now.... OGL workshop thingy today....
literally spent the whole day in sch... haha...
was kinda fun..... but exhausting lar.... tmr will be another tiring day... a match in the morning followed by the OGL thingy....
darn... but it'll be cool...



hey ppl... it's nothing... serious.... dun make it into such a big deal when it is really just one evening.... and nothing is going on okay... so don't do stupid things ar....

hey... so last night wasn't as bad as a lot of ppl expected it to be...
let's face it... nanyang is not exactly the number one action-packed JC in s'pore.... in fact it is really bored.... but i guess last night was quite fun.... had a great time dancing with amanda and got to see boon get pretty stoned... haha.... but in the end, i guess everyone got back home safe and sound....

i seriously have no idea how much boon drank... i myself only had very little to drink... a tequilla shot, vodka and a glass of beer.... the rest of the night was spent talking cock and dancing... haha....

thanks to all the guys that came and the organisers.... had a good time...