Today was our School's Founder's Day. I think it was ACS Founder's day as well. The JC apparently has the same Founder's Day as the other ACS schools. Anyway, many awards were presented, intriguing as well as somewhat long and mundane speeches were made, and many other aspects of a typical Founder's Day were depicted in today's Founder's Day. I sound so mean and corny. 

I went swimming after that. I'm like still quite noob at the basic strokes. I learnt all the strokes in Primary School and now I have to start all over again. Worse still, I got quite badly sunburned. I dislike red skin. I should have put the sunblock on. I'm was quite exhausted just now but dinner, and toilet businesses made be feel much better. I'm thinking of joining a second CCA but  the marginal cost of joining it might be larger than the marginal benefit. I'm infused with economics thanks to the teacher and me being the econs representative but I still don't understand a lot of things related to economics. Perhaps the marginal benefit of me taking history or geography instead of economics might be greater than that of me taking economics because I've had, and most of us had prior experience in either of these subjects before. 

Tomorrow, I'm having my Japanese lesson again, then I have to meet my church friends to discuss stuff about games day. I became the treasurer in the games day committee. I feel pressure. Hopefully I can find a good bag to put the money in and not lose any money. Not hopefully, I must not lose any money. I've been losing money to the Ez link card top up machine, the cafe vendor at school, the canteen vendors, the bookshop and photocopying shop ladies, etc. The cost of living for a students like us is extremely high. We are blessed to live in Singapore. Cost of living is rising. But we are still blessed to live in Singapore. Use economics. 

I feel the need to mug. I'm gonna get my A level guidebooks and assessments by this week and start mugging. I finished the first maths tutorial on a hunch. I don't wanna forget anything. I really really dislike transformations now. I have to learn and memorise 8 things in the maths table on transformations. I'll be meeting my friend this weekend to mug chem and maths. Oh great, my mugging days have to begin again. Sigh. 

I need to work on my Time along with God. It has to be longer and more regular. School is hectic. CCA will be more hectic. Life is also going to increase in the hectic index. Attention is what I need to pay for the lessons in class. Okay that sounded cheesy. I need to focus on God, family, friends, studies, CCA and life. I wanna find time for my music and interests and youth group and games. And I wanna be more than just a typical Singaporean student. 

I need to open doors to new horizons. So maybe the journey won't be that harsh and boring. I have God and family and friends. I probably make like some grammatical mistakes in every post including this one. Oh by the way, Love opens doors where there were none before. 

We had a OG gathering and barbecue last night. It was real fun. I didn't know Jurong point shopping mall was just next to Boon Lay Station. I cut a bit of my fringe myself. I wish I had not done that. Now the left side is longer than the right side. I want long hair ... Ah whatever, it'll grow back. Sometimes I wish we don't have to wear uniforms just like in the polytechnics. But if that happens, a lot of discord will occur, I think. 

We had our first tutorials today. Class representatives were elected today. I became the economics representative but that was totally on a hunch. I have to mug like mad for economics considering the teacher's disposition towards us with further emphasis on me. I just finished some chemistry tutorials questions. I haven't completed everything though. I really do hope I can cope well in JC life. I need God's help. Things are gonna get tougher and stickier from now onwards. 

Faith is the title deed to every good God has prepared for and promised his children. 

I went for my Japanese lesson as usual today. The teacher praised me again and that made me happy. What made me happier was the Planet Shaker's concert tonight. I had a great time jumping and singing and worshipping God with my friends. I thank them for inviting me. Even though I don't know any of their songs, but I still enjoyed the worship. But Ignyte songs and my own collection of songs have the best melodies. But the point is about worshipping God with a true heart so any good christian song would do. 

I have some games day meeting tomorrow and I don't know what's in stored for me. Life is full of surprises. Must keep looking to God. And I need to rest my jaw. The left side keeps popping and clicking. I believe I will be healed. My shoulder got much better. 

The journey of life can get wearisome and bumpy at times, but God and good company can make the trip more pleasant. 人性の旅は時々寂しくて悲しいですけど, 神と良い友人は、旅行をもっと快適にすることができます。

Take My Hand Event was a great success today. I believed many lives were touched by the performance. My friend accepted Christ today and that's great. I am happy that even though we came very late, we still managed to be touched by the main message of the event. I hope we continue growing stronger in Christ daily. 

Swimming is thrice a week, from Tuesday to Thursday. I just received news of my new class on Wednesday. I'm in SC3. There are 25 people in my class, mostly girls. Our base classroom is in the East Lodge located outside the main building of the school. Its a somewhat cute rectangular cuboid that has 2 floors. Our class is on the second floor. I got my timetable today. My latest class ends at 3.50pm on Thursday I think, since I'm not taking mother tongue anymore. I have yet to get to know the people in my class more. Life is full of surprises.

I heard that there's this Planet shakers concert tomorrow. I might go for the worship after my Japanese lesson. I've never been to any of the Australian bands concerts before, and what's more, this one's free, at least the worship is, I think. 

God's love can transform our lives in a magical way. 

Today, I had my first swimming tryout in school. I've decided that I shall join swimming as my CCA. Lesson was pretty interesting today. Basically, we were taught to float in the water and swim at our sides. I was told that body rotation in the water is an essential element when swimming. The instructor was quirky and quite fun too. 

This week is our last Lecture Only Week. We will be starting tutorials and classes from next week onwards. Our classes will be announced tomorrow, after which I would have to break up with my current Orientation Group. I've been eating at the poolside cafe for most of my break and mealtimes at the college. My group seems to have a preference for the cafe instead of the canteen, especially because of the fried rice sold there. 

I have taken quite a number of photos with my relatively new LG phone. I'm simply find it too troublesome to upload them into the computer, especially since I've not even installed the required software from the phone company to transfer the photos from the phone to the computer. 

My Japanese lessons are now on Thursday evenings and Saturday afternoons. I am hoping to change Thursday lessons to Monday lessons since I don't have swimming CCA on that day. I've been neglecting my piano practices ... my teacher is coming tomorrow and my scales are screwed up. I shall do what I can. Swimming ends early tomorrow. My posts are too formal. Bleh. 

Nothing the heart gives away is lost; it's kept in the hearts of others. 

Happy Valentine's Day.


Let's continue spreading love around the world and perhaps bring a smile to those unhappy faces around us.


Lectures have started in school. Some are intriguing, some are boring, some are funny, some make sense to me, some make less sense to me. I'm taking Biology, Chemistry, Maths and Economics as my subject combination for A levels. All of them are H2 Subjects. I'm the only guy in my Orientation Group not taking Physics. I prefer Biology.


We went to town yesterday. Walked around. My friends collected their uniforms. We ate at Food Republic in Wisma. Then we went for an event called MUTS, in school at night... where they screened a movie called The Notebook, which was based on a romance novel written by Nicholas Sparks. I read one of his books Message In A Bottle before. The movie was touching but not enough to move me to tears.


Love isn't blind. It has an extra spiritual eye to see the good and possibilities that others cannot see.

Orientation week is over. My doctor's appointment yesterday had been postponed to March. Went town yesterday. Chatted online. I dropped a contact on the bathroom floor and I can't find it. I tried hard. But its gone. I'm random today. I need to do TAWG. Choir audition. I don't wanna join. I wanna swim.


More friends on facebook. New blog link. Linked me back in a post. My posts are getting shorter and shorter. I want to start a Japanese Club.


The more enthusiastic you are about life, the more joy u find in it.

I finally signed up for Japanese lessons at Jurong East with the help of my father. The tuition centre is called Stanford Educational Services. I intend to take JLPT 3 by the end of this year and then jump straight to JLPT 1 next year. The teacher said my Nihongo was Jouzu, and she kept repeating the words: Jouzu and Sugoi continuously. She said that to many of her students too. I'm glad that I can read the hiragana and katakana fairly fast now and with an accent that she praised. She thought I had many Japanese friends, though I only made one half Japanese friend recently in my orientation group.


Starting school again tomorrow. I'm looking forward to an exciting day of excitement. What makes people happy? Maybe it's because they are so busy making others glad that they themselves become glad in the process.


いろいろなことがあった. 明日お楽しみにしてよ!

Orientation is over! The past 5 days have been very FUN and also very tiring ... We played more than 30 games in total ... the CCA booths were very nice too. The mass dance and Campfireless campfire Firande was fun too. I'm very tired. It's like past 1am. There's so many things that happened.


I just wanna thank God for life and family and my friends, both old and new. Amra is a great group!


May we always be filled with joy. "Be joyful always"

Orientation was so fun and exciting today. We started with worship in the hall and it feel great to be in the presence of God before beginning the day. The school pastor gave a short talk to us and the principal made her address. She reminded me of the principal of curriculum we had in SJI. 

We had a discipline talk and a talk about male behaviour in the school. We had a break and were introduced to our respective groupings ... inside the 4 houses Aslan, Aetos, Crusaders and Mushu. The performances our seniors put up were commendable. 

My group was Amra which meant Lion in Afrikaans. We had icebreakers and shared about ourselves and we played games. Wet games. Got soaked in dirty water but it was fun. We learnt new cheers and a new dance. We screamed the cheers and had fun. I think ACJC has one of the best first day orientations amongst the JCs. 

We ended later than other JCs. I left school at about 6,15pm. There's actually a lot more details but I have to get up early tomorrow so I won't post it all here. A memorable first day of Junior College. 

God has all the answers. Just ask the questions. 

School reopens tomorrow for me and those going to Junior Colleges. I got into ACJC, which was my second choice after RJC. There were too many 2 pointers going there ... no space for me. But I'm still glad because I didn't expect to get a raw score of 7 points for O levels and ACJC was the school I intended to go to even more I took the O level exams. I just regret that I won't be able to enjoy RJC's Japanese programmes. Well ... I shall just go along with God's will and my instincts.

Church outing to Sentosa today was fun ... we played Frisbee games such as Monkey Frisbee, Baseball Frisbee and Ultimate Frisbee, then we build a "sandwall" and carved our cell group name into it, with our names alongside it. Life keeps unfolding, through every second that passes us by. 

I wonder how life is going to be ... What looks like the end of the road, is more often just a bend in the road. I wonder which path would I be taking in future and which bends will I take...