A*bui's CHaT FOrum: October 2006

This is madness!
My thoughts are floating everywhere..
Here, there, now here again, there then again.
Thoughts and ideas, could u please line yourselves up in order!!!!!

This sounds crazy and lunatic-ish doesn' it.
Oh man..I'm in the mode of kan-cheong bananas.
My brain is pacing.. the heart is thumping..
I'm practically racing through the texts..
Asking myself,
"Is this important? Is this relavent?"
Am I really that short of time? I don't know!
I think I am. Am I?
I just know my essays need a lot of sources and evidences to prove my point.
And I don't know if I got it?

Feelings like these comes in intervals.
Stress? Mad? Confused?
I don't know what I'm talking about.

Oh-Oh. I think a lunatic is on the loose..

I have a really weird way of structuring my sentences.
To an extent where I completely confuse my readers.
Oh-Oh.
I better take up some courses that tackles that area.

I'm finally done with 1 more essay!
YAAYYYYY.
There's still 2 more to go, but what the heck.
Let the later bit worry for itself.
Oh am I glad to have finally finished this essay after so much reading and change of arguement.
It's gross, trust me.
Thanks be to the Lord God, ALMIGHTY!!

Yesterday, something else happened..
Ha.
Nothing bad.. Far from bad actually.
I assisted leading the congregation in worship for the first time!
Well, I did so once in sec 4.. but.. it doesnt feel the same.
I guess cos this time round, I have found the real meaning behind worship and what it really means to lead worship.
It's a simply wonderful feeling.
My nerves got to me at the start, nonetheless.
And I have to admit, I was pretty conscious about it.
But not long after, when you really let yourself immense into the whole atmosphere,
reflecting the beautiful lyrics with the awesome music in the background, seeing the congregation just simply worshiping HIM..
It's just beyond words compare.
I think I have found the ministry I would like to serve in, and hopefully the ministry HE wants me to serve in.
THANKS BE TO THE LORD WHO MADE ALL THINGS GLAD.

After service, it was mahjong time!!
(I can already see all of you rolling your eyes. Be careful ah, scarly your eyeballs drop out! Ewww. Too grusome for imagination)

Yesterday was one of the rare occasion where I truly understand what it means to go to all extents just to finally place our hands on those lovely mahjong tiles.

Too much information that may serve useless for elaboration.

Nevertheless, let's just say last night involved:
1) A lousy optus network coverage
2) 50 metres to reaching home before turning back to Sau's place to borrow his MJ tiles.
3) Sau remembering he has Mj tiles at home only at the very last minute.
4) 3 handphones attempting to call Phillip all at once.
5) Reaching Phillip only after we had a set to play with already.
6) The opening of a new MJ den.
7) Having to packing the tiles back in order eg: All the wan, tong and suo all on one "platter"

And I'm proud to say I reckon I was the "Da Ying Jia" of the night.
Absolutely love it when I win.
Love it when I shout.. "SEK WUUUUUUUU!"

The next time mahjong is the attempt to cover all 4 fengs.
Anyone up for it?

I really don't know if this is considered progress for a start.
I started writing my media essay at 930am and up till now, i've only completed 3 paragraphs!
This is horrid.
My evidence are scattered everywhere, I remember chancing upon an evidence that i find useful but i can't locate it!
My ideas are all over the place!
I don't seem to be applying much of the concepts I learnt in the course.
My analysis seems undetailed.. it seems as if it's all spectulated.
And the worse thing is, time is running out out out!
Oh gosh milene, why are you so last minute and unfocused.
You need a better method to approach your essays!
Oh GOD! Please help me....
=(

Abide the hectic schedule I have now.. and my more or less MIA self. I managed to sssqqqueeezzeee out some time for mahjong last thursday night! haha. Mahjong is like a vitamin, it's good for you, stimulates your mind. =)

READY?? GET SET....... GO! "Wash ah wash ah! Swim ah swim ah!"

The capital.

"Good luck please come..."

"Hmmm.. whose side should we count from?"

"When will my tile come.....?"

"Finally! SEK HU! Pay up, pay up!!" (and sadly, this is the only game I won out of the 8-10 rounds we played)

On the way to my 4 gong win (But sadly someone beat me with sek hu). Can I please tell you how much earnings i'll get! First, I'm east wind. So having a gong of east wins is already 2 points (and it was a zi mo, so everybody pays! And everybody did pay, so $8 added to my profits! =D) Then I had my own flower, so one more point added. And then and then.. I forgot how it adds up, but whatever it is, I know if I had won this round, I would have gotten a lot of $$$$. But too bad i didnt.. Well, at least 2 gongs that were ZI MO! And the luckiest thing was the zi mo tiles came one after the other! Woah woah! LOL!)

Ended up with this much profit! Heh.

But at the end of the day, these chips weren't converted into real money. Couldn't even use it to buy a cup of bubble tea. Oh wells, just for the fun of it..

Because remember, the tai-tai's quote of the day : "Mahjong can be fun and mind stimulating, but should not be used as means of gambling because gambling is not good for you..."

And finally, that wraps it up. Now back to swimming in the pool of essays...

YAY! I'm finally done with 1 essay!
That's the exciting bit.
The dull bit is.. yes, 3 more to go.
Usually I rest for a day or as long as a week.
But now it has been drastically reduced to a few hours of rest and slack.
My wisdom tooth hurts..
Both sides..
Food particles always get stuck in the empty gaps and aggravates the gums
and hence triggering the nerves..
AAWWWW.
Pain la.
I need to be more confident with speaking up in classes!!!!!!

Have I been missing in action or WHAT!
Well friends, I am and will be for the next month or so.
Blame it on my 4 major essays, with the minimum weightage being 40%!
Who said Arts students had it easy?!
Who should go slap yourself.

I'm can't even be bothered with celebrating my 18th since all the essays are due 1 day after!

Life.... oh life.. ohh liffeeee~~

I wana form a band.
No, seriously.
I REALLY wana form a band.
With me as the vocalist of course.
You can test me out if you want, I'm open to challenges.
However, I cannot play any instruments nor have I attempted at composing my own music.
Moreover, I'm intending to take some guitar lessons soon.
Know of any instrumentalists interested?
PS: Really, don't take this as a joke.

Done with the news story analysis.
1 down, 4 more to go.
Yippee Yay Yippe Yoo.
Sheesh.

My left wisdom tooth is resuming its growth again.
Painful man.
Crap.
I'm so gonna extract them when I go back.
I'm kinda missing Singapore..
The sun (but I recently heard from YJ it's foggy like mad!), the boring shops,
the family, my friends ...... (oh no. The carmen syndrome. bleah.)
But I'm sure 2 and a half months won't kill.
After the first month of essays and more essays, the second and the extra half month will
be spent on getting my license, working, moving etc etc.
How fulfilling is that man! *cough*

I'm so tired.. Emotionally and physically drained.
I don't know why but my body feels really heavy today and my head's feeling a bit...
Don't know how to describe it.
Body step half way earlier on and all of a sudden, I felt my body was heavy to lift up..
Feet also became sore.
Took a very very slow walk home after that.
Man.
Emoz in the air.
I think the stress is settling in.
Well, i guess it's about time.
Just 1 month to go before all 4 essays due.
Feeling tired already but I've got to start.
Man, man, man.
I think I need you Lord.

I have finally got the pictures from the mt dandenong excursion. It was fun. The activities include climbing a 1000 steps.. I think we climbed more than that really. It was scheduled we'll take 2 hours to slowly make our way up there, but woohoo, we are atheletes, we made it up there in just 45 minutes! Later on we had a bit of a picnic and then headed on to ms marple's for some tea. Yums. Later at night, it was more eating, sight-seeing etc etc. I would be more enthu abt blogging it if i had the pictures 2 weeks ago. But now it's like .......... But whatever it is, here are some of the pics.

Gasp! 7 and a half hours?!?!