Heels story1:
I love wearing heels. Just bought one last wk. Was just dining with my friend; on the way back we saw this shoe shop. Nice flats they have! Headed inside to see see look look.

Saw this 3-inch heels in a beautiful shade of BLUE....

I'm supposed to be saving for my dslr. BUT HEELS!! how often do you find a pair that really catches your eye? It had a pretty bow just at the back of it. :D I knew i just have to get it, though it's 3 inch high!

So out of the shop, i left with a box of blue heels in my hands~ happy~


Heels story2:
Wore my 2inch heels out yesterday. Wore to church in the morning. Met up with my friends after which. I didn't expect that much walking to be done in ONE DAY.

Dhoby Ghaut - The Cathy (WALK)
The Cathy - DG (WALK)
DG - bugis (MRT)
Bugis - Arab street (WALK)
Arab street - Bugis (WALK)
Bugis - DG (MRT)
DG - The Cathy (WALK)
The Cathy - DG (WALK)
Stand all the way on the train (Legs break liao)

All this walking with my absolutely-beautiful-black-lace-peeptoe-heels resulted in 4 blisters PER FOOT. hahaha. It didnt help that my directional-"fantastic" friend got us lost at Arab street. *bleah*

Labels: random thots, ranting

A HUGE load of my shoulders. My mid-term break has arrived! FINALLY! Though it's a mere 2 wks.. but man i'm thankful for this break.

Mid-exams was on last saturday, honestly i know that i didn't put in all my effort. *sigh* It's just very difficult to study as all the lectures are SO DIVERSED. ONE moment it's about amino acid structure, the next is about crystallography method, den it's about some specific protein, P450 cytochrome, DEN it's about the modifications made on many different proteins. I sort of picked my way through the notes. Focusing on some, glancing over most, 100% sure on NONE. It's just tough to study this way, where there's no main focus. *bleah*

Been horrible sick for 2 wks.. Very Major Sick = poor immunity = outbreak of my skin. *sigh* Feels like i'm back to stage one all over again. *teary-eyes... double sigh*

At least i had fun the past 2 days,

Meshelle's Bday...


Only nice image i have of me. hee.. credits to Jer's facebook. :P
Here with beanie.. Dom and wifey calefare behind.. why i have bunny ears....

My hair is actually long enuff to french-braid it! ha~ Lotsa fun and laughter.. And received the wedding invites from Rick and Angelyn. Yipee~ Another friend getting married. Congrats Ah-Huat! hee~ Weddings are such Happy Occasions!!

Sunday was reserved for my date with God in the morning and Twinkle in the afternoon. :)
Brought my little one to the SKC Dog Show at Expo again! I felt really bad of neglecting my girl for the past month. Bad mommy. Been so caught up with school every night that i couldnt play much with her. So this is the special treat for her. Our second time to the SKC dog show.

This time i bought her some more dehydrated treats. Fish-skin for omega-3; fish fillet; and chicken feet! eeks! It's said to be good for them to chew and remove tar from their teeth. No harm trying. haha..

And also got for her a super-comfy-velour-red harness. She looks CUTE in the harness. Red and white = perfect match. We hung around watching obedience challenges. *The doggies are AMAZING! When will my dearie be as guai~* The beautiful showdogs. Had a ton of fun just dog-watching. Saw so many breeds.. from the tiniest chihuahua (even smaller than princess!), dalmations, rotties, huskies, basset hound, daushund, corgis, MS, shih-tzu, maltese all wrapped up, yorkies, saluki, whippet.. so many to bio~ :D

My lovely got unanimous compliments..
It's always "She's so affectionate" Twinkle can be crowed Miss Manja Queen.

Didn't bring my cam.. So no pictures of the dogshow. *bleah*

I'm gonna treasure my 2 wk of holidays.
More regular sleeping time,
more kopi/prata sessions!!,
more time with Twinkle,
more time to be a couch-potato,
more time for my PSP!

Essentially, more time for myself. :)

I think i'll go into hibernation mode. Hee.

Labels: dogs, happy thots, pictures, random thots, ranting, twinkle

Labels: ranting

any shopping loots i put up on my blog..
it ALWAYS is either out of stock or the order didnt go in..

my VS spree was cancelled. *bleah~*
On the hunt for another one. ha.

next tym, i'll only post WHEN i get my stuff. hmpf~

p.s should i go and get a film scanner?? epson V500... hmm...

Labels: ranting

Been sick the entire of last wk.. and still sick this week. Every single illness i could think of, just hit me this time round. Sore throat, fever, flu, blocked nose, cough, headache. You name it, i had it. Still on the path of recovery, my flu seems to have cleared up, so I'm just left with my cough. But it's enuff to leave me breathless very quickly.

I hate the muffled hearing,
i hate the lethargy feeling ,
i hate the tightness in my chest,
i hate being sick. :(

*Pray that myself and everyone who's sick, Be Healed in Jesus' Name. Amen!*
:)

Anyhow, i survived the week (pon-tanging school.. =p) and had a very fun weekend!

Wonderful school started my Saturday morning. *bleah*
Journal Club presentation. Not me presenting (yet). Just some of my other classmates, and we being "good" audiences, we posted NO questions to the speakers. *pa-kart* a bit lah, if not they will shoot questions during my presentation as well. teehee.. Anyhow, my own presentation is on the 19th Nov. I'm doing the introduction part, shld be ok for me. Just hope i dun try to be a smart-aleck and try to be funny (like i always am) during presentation. It's on a science journal titled; Oxidative stress inhibits MEKK1 by site specific glutathionylation in the ATP-binding domain. Woot~ I've no idea what this means.. haa.. time for a little reading up. =p Had a little discussion with my lecturer and we were done for the day!~

Sab invited us for a Hari Raya Meal. Nothing she cooked or baked. *chey lah!* But still, nice food :) Sumi borrowed a movie over to watch. THE ORPHANAGE. yes, a horror show, though i don't watch horror -___-||| It was alright though, cos it's day-time. hee~ It's a really GOOD movie! I totally liked the entire twist to it. How sad it is that the mother is the one who killed her child. The child who she was desperating looking for, the child who she thought went missing for 6 mths. When he's really trapped in the basement, accidentally locked in.

Go catch it if you havent already watched it, NO apologies for the spoilers though. *muahahaha~* It's an old show. =p

5 stars for this show!

Sunday... Day to bring Twinkle out.
Intended to bring her to the Dog Run for a little exercise. BUT it began to rain as we made our way there. :( So we made a turn to the Dog Cafe instead! *Lucky Twinkle*

We popped by K9 campus, located at turf city. and i like this place! It's a little air-conditioned hut with nice comfy seats. Some outdoor seatings as well. They only sell human food. Food seems quite nice, at least my friend's order of some burger stuff looks decent enough. and i LOVE their service crew. A bright smile on all their faces. Very friendly ppl, makes the place so much cozier.

Just opp the cafe is the US pet bakery, they sells yummy dog food. They had a power shut-down when we dropped by the area. Thus, no freshly baked stuff from them. I didn't get any stuff for Twinkle as well. But she managed to steal a bite or two of the meatloaf from Princess. ha~ That pig. It soon began pouring cats and dogs, but we hid inside the cafe. Nice place to just chill with ur poochies running around freely. The tables were rather low and i couldnt let my PIG run freely as she would tip-toe just to get a whiff at the scent of FOOD. -.- Had a good luff over the super belated gift i gotten for Princess. hee.. Tat super-random-slightly-deaf cutie..

It was pouring even as we were leaving, the NICE service crew loaned us umbrellas and even followed us back to the car to collect the brollies fr us. Great service, i tell ya!

I wanna go back again! hee~

:) I love simple days as such... :)

No photos for both days.. Too nua and tired to tk any pics... =p

Labels: dogs, happy thots, ranting, sick, twinkle

i have been terribly stressed for the past 4 wks.

Utterly tortured by my school. It's AMAZING what the school expects from us. They completed the half of my module lectures over a period of 4 sessions (full 3 hrs each time). They gives us 2 entire wk of practicals, FULL lab reports due a wk after. Den they gives us another 4 sessions of lecture for the last part.

They just forget the tiny-weeny fact that, WE ARE WORKING FULL-TIME AS WELL.

Lab sessions were horrible, half the time.. no.. more like the ENTIRE TIME, we have no idea wad we are doing. Briefing by the lab demos stinks. Horrible and unfriendly lab techs dun help either. Me and my friends are like totally lost. We just wanna finish up wadever we are supposed to do and just FLEE out of the lab. BUT this leaves us totally stuck with the lab report.

Man.. Chemistry Calculations.. Was hopeless with that in my sec sch days. Am hopeless with them now as well. What's the deal with the no. of moles.. molarity.. molality.. concentration.. ion exchange.. electrons.. chemical equation.. equilibirum. HELLO??? PPL majoring in molecular biology DON'T CARE ABT THOSE! Tell me about bacteria.. genetics.. viruses... anything else.

This is my worst module till date. Chemistry sux big-time.

The feedback form (given at every end of the course) was issued to us. Not surprisingly, the entire class (including ME) had LOTS to write in the comment portion. Complain complain complain. Ain't gonna help us no more.. but at least hopefully the next batch get a better treatment.

BUT.. to my surprise.. the final part of the labs was relaxing. i was ECSTATIC when the lecturer announced that the lab reports are all due on the day of my exams! YIPEE~ meaning i have a whole 3 wks to SLOWLY do my report. And the requirements of which has been reduced. NO need for RUBBISH stuff like intro, method, results, discussion, conclusion CRAP. Just "RESULTS". Tat's it. Simple enough. PERFECT.

Thank God for the 180degrees change in the sequence of events. Man, i was so depressed on the monday about the quizzes to come(4 quiz in a week, wow... perfect planning. -.-) But really, Thank God for changing everything. Nice lecturer, nice pace of work, nice nice nice..

Coming to the end of THIS MODULE. Just need to scrape through this one.

I know God can help me with that. :)

Keeping a heads-up!

Labels: random thots, ranting

Why don't we have half-days on Friday? Just in celebration of the "National's Birthday"? :( NIE just ain't that kind to us employees huh? Was rather surprised to see a SEA OF RED AND WHITE in the canteen! Nowadays still so on with colour-combi one meh? ha~ So many folks in red and white! I guess cause they are teachers-to-be; might as well get in the mood just like in teaching days.

Quite sad for me to end my day with school AGAIN. Man.. i som-pa this is the WORST subject i've studied till date. Guess this time i really have to put in effort to do scrape through this module.. Gibbs free energy law.. TEN THOUSAND other laws.. All sort of subscript; Q=heat, W=work, H= dunno-simi law.. like WHO CARES about thermo-dynamics? i don't.. and i can't believe that i have to learn my mathematics AGAIN!! Ln, Differentiation, Integration.. the last time i did all these was like a freaking 8 years ago??? *yes tat's how OLD i am. ha!* Any physics and chem students? or teachers? i could really use some help..

NIE library.. here i come..
Atkin's book of physical chemistry.. here i come..
*Please don't let someone else borrow that book before me!*

National day = public holiday = i can drive my car out in the morning!
Figured to jio a dog run outing on a saturday morn; but all don't give face except one. PUI~ wadever. Headed down still with Princess. Ta-bao Mac for breakfast into the West Coast Dog Run. Just love the environment of the WCDR since i went there during the NDW last week. Unleashed Twinkle when we settled at the bench in the dog-run. She sticks rather close to me though i wanted her to go play with her new friends more. *just realised it might be because i have already trained her to lie down quietly at my feet when i'm sitted at home* ha! Clever Twinkle.

Made couple of friends there. Found Princess' Dad! haa.. It's a silky with the EXACT same colour combi fur coat! A little bully JRT pup.. couple more.. I even finished up a roll of film (anyhow snap) with my vivi; will post the pictures once i find time to get it developed. Had a nice and fun morning there. :D

Still going for another picnic with my friends and Twinkle tmr! cause it's HOLIDAYS! woot~ *happy* But i still have school tmr night. How sad... Sometimes i just wish that holidays never ends. Why can't it.....

Labels: holiday, outing, ranting, twinkle

:(

Have i told you that i hate chemistry?

I'm a biology ger; not a chemistry, not a physics ger. Guess what, my latest module is Physical chemistry. Meaning chemistry with physics mixed in it. Just had my first lecture last night. A FULL 3 hours... We were nodding our heads at the beginning and shaking them towards the final hour. He took 1 hour to finish up 5 slides! A pathetic 5 slides... We used to do at least 20 slides in a single hour.

This subject's a real killer.

It's so mentally draining that upon reaching home, i just ate and head straight to bed. Didn't even play with Twinkle; though she was begging for attention.

:(

p.s have i told you that i hate chemistry?

How am i gonna survive this term and turn into a chemistry-know-it-all freak?

Labels: ranting

insanely packed with who-knows-what...

School takes up a pretty big portion of my life, so much so that i feel i'm in dire need to break out and find my own space for myself. I feel bad for no having time for cell gp and i miss my cell-mates (pun not intended) so much! I miss not meetin God with everyone on the friday. I miss you guys. I miss all the teasing. I miss just fellowshipping together. I feel like i'm missing out on SO SO SO much. :( :( :( Hope to get back soon once my schedule "sort-of" clears up. *sigh*

I'm progressing into my final year *grasp!* This fri's exam will conclude my second year modules. No more light-weighted stuff. :( I saw my next module's schedule and it's ................ indescribable. The amount of commitment that is required is................... indescribable. I look at the number of practicals PER WEEK and imagine the amount of reports i have to write. Things just doesn't look as bright anymore. I shall not lament anymore on my predicament. Not like it's gonna help anyway.

Just one more year... ONE MORE YEAR of suffering, then it'll all be worth-while.

YES, i can do it.

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. :)

The weekend was great though. With great friends around.
Saturday started out with WORK; ushers for VIP to NTU's graduation ceremony. I had nice uncle D as my partner and it was a pleasure working with him and other nice colleagues. Fun-injected time i had. Made some new friends who works in different parts of my company who were "volunteered" for this job, just as i did. That took up more than half of my day.

Afternoon was spent with my darling twinkle, gave her a quick bath (once again; i got all wet) and spend the rest of the afternoon lazing around, wasn't feeling all that well but just having her around brightens up my day! :D

Come evening time, hopped over to uncle jh's new place for house-warming. Picked up Andrew on the way. (I'm just being TOO NICE as always. HA!) Beautiful house with a 4k ice-popping, water dispensing SAMSUNG fridge! WAHAHAHAHA~ i just love to tease him. hehe.. I can't believe we were THAT early. -____-||| We reached about 7pm and the rest came only at 8+? Now i know who to ask for meetup timings. LOL. At least i wasn't alone so that wasn't so bad. A Black on white concept. More of a contemporary feel to his house. Just love the cosy corner with the NY sky scape wallpaper on it. We had our plans to draw ppl on the buildings. Draw superman and spiderman on the buildings. Find a KingKong sticker and paste in on the building. LOL. We are hilarious. Like seriously. hahaha~

His bed is the most POWER bed i sit on. Simmons'.... what do YOU expect. It's super comfy, soft yet not too soft. Seriously, like the queen's bed. I've never heard of pillows WITH SPRINGS IN IT. His did. We, the ladies, laid back IN his bed (teehee..) and just have some girls' talk. **secret** Certain points were brought up made me wonder is that what i want in my life? To disturb my peaceful life, right now? The trade-off dun seems that good to me.. That's definitely not i want. Let's just see how things go... hmmm......

Anyhow, it was getting late. I'm tired and feeling even sicker already. *burning throat.. teary eyed...* DEN, we stumbled upon Andrew and Rick playing Wii!! hehe.. i've NEVER played that before so i want to PLAY! It was FUN FUN FUN!!!! Me and Angelyn (2 newbies) tried playing tennis. WAHAHA~ playing tennis like doing some kungfu stunts. Whacking the bat madly all around. heehee~ It's very easy to pick up and EVERYONE should play wii!~ It's like super addictive. Played bowling as well and i got a double strike! *dun play play!* I sux at real-life bowling btw. ha. The funniest has got to be playing the boxing. After watching Nena and Rick play it, i'm NEVER touching that game. Totally no clue how to play it even after watching them. The spectators... me, serene, angelyn, andrew were luffing our asses off. I luff till i teared. serious. *pengz*

It was getting really late for me.. so decided to siam home. I've church the next day so well.. must know my limits. hee~

SUNDAY; I should have rested at home. But i just wanna go to church to praise God!! It's just in me already. It's only AFTER i reached church that i realised i was quite sick. My throat was hurting, my eyes can't open, my body was aching. -.- So much for trying to keng through. Once again, God never fails me. :) I just love to sing praises to Him. It's always worth it.

After church, stubborn me still decided to proceed on with my plans to meet my besties~ I cna't miss this gathering cause FINALLY after 10 thousand years, the three of us are able to finalise a date, time n place to meet. The last time we met was like in ................... ...................... ............. ................ er............ ................ ..................... .................... *i can't remember* I only know it was at a jappy restaurant. It was LAST YR. But sometimes best friends just don't have to meet that often. We still are in the same frequency; same wavelength. Ah Xia is still Ah Xia. Ah Rong is till Ah Rong. And i love them to bits!!!~

Girls' Talk all over again. And Ah Rong has plans for marriage! *SEE I TOLD YOU THE WHOLD WORLD'S GETTING MARRIED!* Really thrilled for her. Her plans seems to be on-hold though, but i'm sure God will see her through it all. :)

Ah Xia wanted to get a photo-printer and so qiao, there's a roadshow on IT products, more qiao, what she wanted was on a half-price sales!!!! So me and Rong were there to "help" her. HA! Squeeze the SA dry. MUAHAHAHAHA~ We really tried our best to get him to "throw in" more and more stuff. Managed even get nice print-out of the 3 of us too! :D

Went home with a promise to meet up again. As usual. hee~

Felt a little guilty for neglecting my dear twinkle. So brought her out for a walk. Just one small circle around my estate before heading home. Normally her walks are much longer than that. But I really cannot tahan anymore. *sick sick sick*

So now... I'm sick with 2 days mc. Body aching, mind's half-aslp. :( I hate being sick. Pray for my health okie? and Pray for my practical exam on this weds and my finals on this fri.

Just pray for me. I need all of it. :)

Labels: happy thots, outing, ranting

My lappy crashed... Kinda sad about it cause it means that all my stuff (my reports.. pictures..) are GONE..

*poof* into thin air

Good lesson to myself; to back up my stuff. Me.. the dumb-ass.

Anyway, i just want to comment that LENOVO's after sales service is SUPERB! Used their service a total of 3 times.

1) My brand-new LCD screen was spoil. I went to 'deposit' my lappy at my nearest post office. And Voila~ Singpost delivered it to them. They fixed it up and send back to the post office. Go and collect it. :)

2) Battery problem. The technical support ger called me from overseas!! haha.. weird, though i stated in my request form that i'm fr SG. Called me a couple of time to check on my battery series no and stuff. Problem not solved as my batt's warranty was already over. *bummer* but anyhow, i can feel her sincerity of wanting to help me. *Props to the nice lady!*

3) Lappy siao-problem. Refused to access to Windows XP. Technical support guy, Steven, walked me through the guide of finding out wad's wrong the computer. Assessed that it was the problem of the hard-disk. Advised me how to remove and install the hard-disk by myself. Asked his rider to immediately send the hard-disk to my house for a one to one exchange.

WOOT!~ that's what i call GOOD SERVICE!!

I'm gonna fix it up this evening when i get home.
If this doesn't work, i'm gonna rewrite this post! *evil laughter*

i'm so gonna get LENOVO as my next lappy as well..

Upz to Lenovo peeps.. hee~

Labels: random thots, ranting

Labels: ranting

My new term has started and apparently the time-table-planner-person decided that it would be fun torturing kids like myself. Thus, my schedule started off with a brillant 6-day school week.

EVERYNIGHT... heading to the school after work.. it aint no joke.

But den;
Thank God for my NEWLY-made friends who are in the same module as me.
Thank God for lecturers who seems rather friendly.
Thank God for pulling me through the entire of last week.
Thank God for my grades for my previous module. I PASSED. It's over. That's all that matters.
Thank God for this module, Microbiology.

Call me weird. But i prefer dealing with bacteria and viruses RATHER den chemistry, genetics and what not. At least all i have to do is a WHOLE LOT of memorising and not much for understanding. My notes are as thick as 3cm. and i have to MEMORISE all the stuff inside. *rolls eyes* My brain cells are kinda half-wiped-out from my previous Molecular Biology module. *THAT WAS A KILLER!*

My next few modules will be a chemistry one. CRAP. i'll be a goner den. But till den, let me survive from all the memorising first. ha.

God be with me.

p.s the next time you see me, i can tell you ALL about the HIV aka AIDS virus cause i have a WHOLE chapter on that to memorise. ha.

Labels: ranting

Labels: ranting

Neh.... not all the tees in the previous order list are mine..

Only the below 2 belongs to yours truly..

Familiar for those who played "CLUEDO" before.. LOL.. The detective board-game..
And this! Cute?? LOLz.. i just adore this cos i'm such a video game fanatic.. hee.. Can't believe that $240++ is cut from my card.. :( Just seems like a great sum.. But with the USD dipping a SEA-LOW.. the exchange rate is ~ 1.41!! Super low lah!!

Been REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY busy the few weeks with SCHOOL.. Coming to the end of my 2nd week of EVERY NIGHT lectures.. yes.. life's so sad for me. Rather depressing to head to school every single day..

The first week is particularly difficult to pass, cos i'm basically developed an ANTI-SCHOOL syndrome..
Guai guai went for the sat's lab, mon to weds lectures...
Skipped thurs for Von's bday celebration.. *HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY GER!!*..
Skipped fri class cos i felt really tired and sick..
Another beautiful saturday, went for a pal's opening shop ceremony.. *CONGRATS DUDE*
Rushed for lab session, which ended early *YIPEE~*
Rushed to meet my besties for a movie...
Sunday... REST!!! just church on the morning... followed by much-needed nua-ing at home...
all these ON TOP OF daily work... *phew~*

This week.. once again.. Classes every night *including tonight :(* 'cept for friday which is a PH!! This week is rather OK for me.. just i'm a little used to the hectic schedule.. Sometimes i can slp just in a blink of an eye.. LOL.. on the bus.. on the MRT.. you name it..

Tmr's a Great day for me to sleep in... i desperately need SLEEP. I still have ONE MORE... just ONE MORE WEEK of intensive classes, before everything slacken a bit again... TAHAN! REN!! one more week!!

But God's been great.. Many times i just wonder how i can keep my spirit high with such a HUGE problem bothering me... It's God... i just know it is..

Thank you... Mucho Grascia... Merci Beaucoup...

Labels: ranting, shopping loots, thanks-giving

Labels: ranting

bad timetable = many sch nights = not enuff time to rest = not-enuff-rest-michy = grouchy michy = not-smiley-michy = will-snap-at-you-michy

dun try me...

STAY AWAY...

Labels: ranting

----------

"Well, Don't get your hopes up..."

-----------

How many times have you heard that and it just seemed to suck all the air out of the room? I think that’s what it’s designed to do: act like a vacuum, deflate your enthusiasm, crush your spirit, destroy your faith.

There’s really nothing positive in that saying at all. Just like many clichés and worldly sayings, it is not Biblical, it is not obedient to God’s word, it is not good. Keeping your hopes up is God’s way! Let’s do get our hopes up! Let’s take a chance on being hopeful! Let’s dare to hope!

Hope is good. God tells us to hope. He doesn’t say, “Well, don’t get your hopes up, so that you won’t be disappointed.” That doesn’t sound like Him at all, does it? Let’s look at hope from God’s point of view instead of just the world’s (Satan’s) view:

(all are from the HCSB translation)

Quote:

Psalm 42:5 – Why am I so depressed? Why this turmoil within me? Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him, my Savior and my God. Romans 5:5 – This hope does not disappoint, because God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. Romans 12:12 – Rejoice in hope; be patient in affliction; be persistent in prayer. 1 Cor. 13:7 – Love… bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 1 Cor. 13:13 – Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love. Eph. 1:18 – I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened so that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the glorious riches of His inheritance among the saints… Col. 1:27 – God wanted to make known to those among the Gentiles the glorious wealth of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. 1 Thes. 4:13 – We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers concerning those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who have no hope. 1 Thes. 5:8 - … and put on a helmet of the hope of salvation. 1 Pet. 3:15 - …always be ready to give a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you. 1 John 3:3 – And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself just as He is pure.

We can easily see that hope is good from those scriptures, from those men who knew the hope of Christ. We can see that it is a good thing, to get our hopes up! But here’s the best reason of, to hope:

Quote:

Hebrews 11:1 (HCSB) Now faith is the reality of what is hoped for, the proof of what is not seen.

We need faith, don’t we? Doesn’t God say that without it we will not stand? Doesn’t He say that the righteous shall live by faith? (Hab. 2:4) Doesn’t the Bible say that anything not of faith is sin? (Rom. 14:23) Doesn’t It say that “Without faith it is impossible to please God?” (Heb. 11:6) Doesn’t It say we receive the promises “by faith and patience”? (Heb. 6:12) Doesn’t it say that our faith saves us? (Luke 7:50)

Well, then what would happen if we didn’t have faith? We would fall, we’d be in sin, we wouldn’t please God, and we’d not inherit His promises. We need faith to stand, to be righteous by Christ, to please God, to walk in victory.

Faith is important, then, right?

Faith = The substance of what we hope for.

If we aren’t hoping for anything, then how can we faithfully believe for it? If we aren’t hoping for the return of Jesus, how can we believe He’ll return? If we aren’t hoping for healing, we won’t have faith to receive it. If we don’t get our hopes up to walk in victory and love, then we won’t. We’ll lose and be selfish and miserable the rest of our lives.

Let’s dare to hope then! Let’s get our hopes up and take a chance on God coming through for us! Let’s hope to see His promises come true in our lives and let’s let that hope be the basis, the substance, that our faith needs to operate.

Get your hopes up – God will come through.

…so that you will not grieve like the rest, who have no hope. – 1 Thes. 4:13

=========================================

Amen to that... When times are difficult, i always try not to get my hopes to high up. As the world believes, the higher ur hopes are... the more it hurts when all come crashing down. That's what i do most of the time, i dun not hope for the highest.. so that i wont be disappointed... i dun keep my hopes up, for i fear that God might not live up to his promises and my hopes.

It's just difficult to juggle between believing in God, yet not getting wad you expect.

He works in different ways... Yes i do believe that.. But when the pain and hurt gets too much to bear, i get angry at God instead, i get angry with the World. Why is this happening to me? Dat i do not know, all i do know is that i want God to take it away. Completely away from me, the haunting that's with me for the past 8 yrs... This is it... i've had enuff of it.

I'm trying so hard to keep my hopes up. Believe me. I am.

Pls take it away from me.

Labels: deep thots, ranting

Life's just messy the past weeks.. It just went passed like a whirlwind sweeping across my face.. School school school EVERYDAY... Pretty much sick of studying. PERIOD.

I couldnt even be bother with the exam last tuesday and friday. Life's getting a tad tiring. Study i did. Exams i did. But it was a touch-and-go sort of thing. Just feel like all of this doesn't really matter at all.

... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

I reallie need to refresh myself and get back to the entire studying and working thingy... Today's the start of my next module. When i just did my exams yesterday. Dang.... how "nice" the way they arrange our schedules. :( It's just crappy dat i dun even get a week of rest. Took a peep at my schedule for this module. Seems rather alright to me. i hope. Well, certainly hope everything works out alright.

But I'll be fine.. i trust.. :)

===============================================
Going on to happy thots :)

Managed to catch a movie in the midst of the whirlwind.
Kinda 'deep' sort of show to watch as a midnight movie.. It's about the on-going war happening in the afghan.. Saddens ur heart to see what's actually happening in the world today. There is a true-life war still happening over at that side of the world. :( I love the way this movie is shot, the way the 3 stories inter-twined with each other. The friendship b/w the 2 frenz in the special forces. When one soldier fell out of the plane which was under seige, the other jumped out to be with him.

*I keep telling my friend, if that reallie happens to us, NO WAY am i going to jump and die with you... WAHAHAHAHA~ tough luck ya?*

I like the way they epic media as a tool for propaganda. I like the way this movie brings new perspective to my simple mind. I like the phrase used in the movie, "Lions are led by Lambs", talking abt brave soldiers being led by weak leaders.

Thumbs up for the movie. Only rant is that IT'S TOO SHORT!!! The ending was super abrupt. And that resulted in a lot of "huh"s at the end of it.

4.5/5 pawprints for this movie.

After which, we went to the orchard swensen's for supper! hehe.. super fattening lah.. haha.. but who cares. :P i had salmon and tuna burger thingy and great company for supper. Hope you enjoyed ur little extremely early morn birthday celebration ger~ ^^

Did quite a lot of shopping the past mth as well.. *tsk tsk tsk* notti me..

Brought myself:
- Havanians white trekking sandals
(so need to change my brikes tanlines on my feet... argh~)
- Peeptoe white wedges (girly-vintagely-feel)
- La Senza lingerie (50% discount!!)
- Purple with grey-bow sweet dress
- Origins skin-care pdts (my skin.... someone save my skin.... :/ *stress is bad for skin*)
- Long grey cardigan *online*
- Black GoJane dress *online* (still waiting for it's arrival.. hehe..)
- Grey Leggings *online*
- JE511 dress and top (can't fit into one of the pretty dress...
have it up for sales in my LJ)

:P

And i just got myself a reallie good CLEO bargain!
There was a roadshow going on; 20% off subscription and a GOODIE bag is given to me!!

It contains:
- HOYU hair dye (retails $8.90 i think..)
- T-zone facial wash
- T-zone facial scrub
- T-zone cleanser
- T-zone spot rescue gel
- Calcium tablets (for wad???)
- Cleo save-the-environment bag
- Drinks
- Some rojak vouchers.... hehe... Good deal yeah??? ^^

But but... i dun use most of them... any takers? i can sell cheap cheap to ya~ hehe..

My current msn nick: "hahaha.. shldn't have gone shopping.. =x"

Peace out!~

Labels: movie, ranting, shopping

i know that i'm supposed to get used to studying night classes....

i know that i'm supposed to be NOT complaining abt school anymore....

i know that many think it's easy studying in part time uni....

BUT IT AIN'T LAH!~~~~

6 mths into this course...*AND I STILL HAVE 2 MORE YRS!!!!* and i tell you... it aint easy... once again... i'm overwhelmed with my classes... it's either monday, weds, fri or monday, tues, thurs and fri classes..... 3 and 4 times a week.... :(

i'm seriously feeling super duper stressed with sch and work... it's been a few crazy weeks.... my work is quite packed as well... and now my skin condition has worsened.... *sob sob*..... when is this stupid... crazy events of stuffs gonna end??? :(

pretty much miserable right now.... *haiz~* I NEED A BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pray for me okie?? ;D

Labels: ranting

Yes.. i have survived ONE month without my mommy!!

Amazing for a spoilt brat like me~ Yes.. i'm SUPER DUPER spoilt.. Period.. I actually kinda like the minute freedom i have.. like nt eating a lot for dinner.. :P haha.. she just cooks too YUMMY food for me to resist.. how to nt get fat like dat?? and of course.. going out without her nagging..

Of course.. missed her lots too.. cos i usually talk A LOT to her... rant a lot.. just talk a lot of crap with her.. hee~ Anyway.. she's coming back next week.. so i'll just tahan lah.. Her absence is felt... Been going over to my bro's hse every weekend anyway so *BLEAH* wahaha..

But i have been too busy with work and studies to really feel her absence.. studies... studies.. studies... *neh.. rather nt talk abt it...* sigh... ....

Well... i recently watched this chinese infor-entertainment show.. which showed abt dieting with dark *bitter* chocolate... haha.. me being the lazy-dun-wanna-exercise-dun-wanna-diet-eat-all-i-wan-ger.. sounds like a GOOD idea.. LOL.. so i was looking ard in my sch's bookshop/snacks shop.. Looking for dark bitter chocolate.. but lots of them has high sugar content and they DUN put the % of cocao mass in them... Randomly bought one.. headed to my office.. tried it.. IT'S SWEET... Grrr... cheat my money... LOL.. it tasted yummy though... =x

Next day... nothing to do.. heading back there again.. and begun my search for the chocolate.. hee.. and i saw this CACAO 86%.... I recalled seeing wendy post a pic of the 99% chocolate bar in her blog.. hee.. so decided to just get it and try.. 89% *hopefully it's not sweet again*
Guess wad... my wish came true... it's SUPER BITTER LAH... i ate my very first piece and immediately washed it down with water... At that very instance... full of regret... *why did i buy this horrible bar of thing!!* hahaha... it's only 86% and it's already bad.. haha.. but now i sort of like this bitter taste that it gives.. LOL.. prob gives me a high caffeine rush as well.. It's healthy without the high sugar content.. and it's sort of kills my *sweet tooth* and craving for sweet stuff.. so.. it's GREAT!!

I think the correct method of eating this series of chocolates is fr 63% -> 72% -> 86% -> 99%.. haha.. so that i can slowly get accustomed to the bitterness and proceed to "upgrade" to the next lvl.. but i jumped straight to the 86% de.. *didnt know got the other 2 lower percent mah.. haha.. Contemplating to try the 99% de.. If i'm even able to find it.. hee~ Just let me "苦死自己。" LOL...

==============================

F21 Crochet Knit Top *cute puff sleeves and details also*

F21 Tunic.. in white *black was OOS* =( haha.. thot it looks pretty.. hopefully it's just as nice on me IRL~

And i brought a super cheap square neckline.. crochet top in white!! Super pretty!! but it's very sheer... =( cannt wear as a dress.. i think.. anyone knows where to get nude or white dress slip? hee~

Can't wait to get all my stuff!! haha.. first time i joined so many sprees.. all at one shot.. =P

Labels: random crappy post, ranting, shopping

♥ Name's Michy
♥ Living in la-la land
♥ Forever Lost…n Blur…
♥ Loves the whole world
♥ Loves DRIVING
♥ Loves lomography
♥ Crazy over cameras...