Baby Kean!!!

I brought Briony to Irene's stage props and costume shop at Outram Park today. Briony was going for an interview for a part-time job at the shop.

At the shop, I was playing with baby Kean!!! Kean Kean!!! OK! I am a man and I love babies! Kean is so adorable. He was laughing at everything I could think of playing with him. I tickled him, carry him high up in the air, let him play with some of the stage prop.

All of a sudden, Kean Kean start to have hiccups. It wouldn't stop, I dunno what to do... Irene's interviewing Briony, so I went to ask the other ladies in the shop. They were laughing at Kean (or me?) and said I should give him some water to drink.

I fed Kean with some water. Nope, the hiccups didn't go away. I patted the little chest gently, fed a little bit more water... Then the hiccup got LOUDER! Argh!!! (I'm so tired carrying Kean already.) I tried to give Kean a bit more water and by God's grace, his hiccups stop.

When the hiccup stops, he started making some forceful noise and kicked a little bit. I asked Irene what's wrong and she said it's feeding time. Irene asked me to put Kean in the pram and I fed him. ( I always joke that we should start a mid-husband organisation so that man can be more involve in pregnancy, labour and child-rearing. Hahaha.) The moment I put Kean in the pram, he started crying!!! I quickly put the milk bottle to his mouth and he start to suckle. Hahaha.

He took quite a long time to finish his milk. Once he finish and I put the milk bottle away, he started crying again. I decided to let Irene take over (a real man knows when is the best time to let go. Hahaha.) Appears that Kean is tired and he wanted to sleep. Regarding this, looks like mummy knows best. :)

Later went to Plaza Singapura with Briony for lunch. She's a little dizzy today, maybe due to blood loss during the blood donation. After lunch, we went to Swensen to try out the Banana Crumbles. NICE! Thou I prefer the Apple Crumbles. Hahaha.

By the way, I bought some vaporubs and cough drops in the morning which I intended to give to my poor, sickly friend, Cinthia. So after leaving Plaze Singapura, I went to Toa Payoh. I bought a small hard colored paper at Popular to make a card then go straight to her place. I placed everything in a small bag and hang it at the door handle. It was meant to be a surprise. Hahaha.

BTW, I bought another 2 more tops from Samuel & Kevin at the Toa Payoh's outlet. Hahaha. Headache's getting more bearable. Heard from my member that O level social studies is very difficult this year. It reminds me that I just made a friend, Benecia, at the blood donation drive and she is also taking O levels. So I sms her and chat with her a little on my way home. I guess I do have pretty good PR skills. :)

Final Calculation On Blessing Myself.

My friends having being saying thatI bless them more than I bless myself. At 1st even I believe them, However, after I did some calculation, I realised that I had spend $270++ on myself!!! So Briony and Cinthia, I did bless myself ok. Hahaha.

Things I bought for myself:
1. New spectacles $140
2. A pair of Giordanos bermudas $19
3. A Kappa leather sling bag $39.90
4. Haircut at REDS $31.50
5. Gatsby hair clay $8++
6. 2 tops from Samuel & Kevin $29
7. A watch from Far East $10

I had a teriible headache yesterday due to my wisdom tooth. I would say the pain scale is around 7 (for those who understand what I mean). I felt nausea the whole day, but I still went to church nonetheless.

Took some panadol after church, helped a little but quite redundant... My CGL wanted to get body paint from the Art Friends at Ngee Ann City so I went with her.

We shopped a little and looked around Orchard Road. Irene was saying she would hardly wanna spend on herself now because she rather spend on her baby. Hahaha. So ah... "If you know the Son, you know the Father." in this case... If you love the son, you love the mother. So friends of Irene, you know what to get for her. Hahaha.

With Irene's advice, I bought 2 tops from Samuel & Kevin and settle for a fierce cool looking watch. And Irene finally bought the belt she promised me for my birthday. Hahaha. It look so striking and that's good! Briony said, "If no one can notice, dun bother to wear it." Hahaha. Thanks Irene.

Headache is going to be there till my wisdom tooth grows out, in about another 1 month. Please don't keep telling me to rest, despite the pain, I still have to live life everyday.

This is already the 3rd wisdom tooth so I kinda got used to it. I dun mind if anyone show concern thou, I would appreciate that. Hahaha. Just dun tell me to go home early to rest thou. I love to be active, stay up till I am tired before I sleep. I love to live everyday to the fullest. :)

Thanks Cinthia for caring about the headache. I really appreciates that. It's indeed great to know that "SOMEBODY CAREZ!!!" hehehe.

Mission Accomplished?...

Did nothing much today. Stayed at home to watch the DVD on this Korean Drama titled, "Da Chang Jin". This show is about this Korean lady who after much struggle became the 1st woman in Korea history to become a full-fledge court physician. She became very well=known for her effort to research on different diseases and also her effort to bring better medical care to the public.

I was watching this few episodes where she was selected to go thru the female physician training course. Seeing how they conducted the training course and the principles about medical ethnics reminded me just how similar it is to the nursing course I am going thru now. It is unlike any Korean drama, I kinda enjoy it.
Hey Jovi, if you are reading this, I recommend this show. I remember you like K-drama.
And Cinthia, this show is not boring, the reason I already say so. Hahaha.

I left my house later to do home visitation. For unseen circumstances... I was alone doing the visitation. Then when I reached the place, the member I wanted to visit was fast asleep because he just came back from one whole night of activities. I talked to his mother instead but she was not feeling. I decided not to stay too long so as not to disturb her rest. Didn't exactly meet my objective but at least it could show that I do care to visit him. Mission Accomplished? Maybe partly...

Later I met with Cinthia to change the jeans I bought for her at Bossini as the cutting was not right. (Finally). Got to shave off an inch from the jeans as it was too long. BTW... she wears 31 inch waist length jeans. I also wearing 31 inch length for my jeans but I am taller! She got such long legs. Hehehe.

Tomorrow, I will be highlighting my hair in the morning. Later I will be meeting Jasmine and Briony to go for blood donation. Perhaps I could show Briony around my town later. Hahaha. Better have some plans 1st. :)

COPE Outing

Went out with COPE to East Coast Park today. Was suppose to meet 1045am at East Coast Park McDonalds but due to my calculation error, I reached Paya Lebah at 1042am!!

Since I was late, I wanted to take a cab instead of taking the bus. So while waiting for a cab, this person in front of me went further up to flag an empty cab as it was approaching. Something in me just stirred up and said, "Go after him!" So I quickly walked up. The person step into the front seat. Though I couldn't hear what he said, I could see from the movement of his mouth that he was saying to the cab driver, "East Coast Park." So I quickly ran up to the cab and asked if I could share the cab with him, he agreed. Hahaha.

The story didn't just end here. On the cab, he said I actually don't have to pay because he was actually on the job now, needed to fetch some goods quickly and he could claim the cab fare from the company. I was so surprised and thanked him. Hahaha. Must be the work of God. God is good. :)

So while we were playing games at East Coast Park, our boss, Irene arrived and we decided to fetch her. A brother and I voluteered and was told to go to the underpass to fetch her. When we reach the underpass, we couldn't find her, so we called Vivian and she said it was the carpark near the underpass.

Actually, there is no carpark near the underpass... So I called Irene and she said she was at carpark C1. From the spot we were playing games, carkpark C1 is actually in the opposite direction from the underpass... And the carpark is actually so much nearer to the game site compare to the underpass. Ops...

And I learned a news today that moved me so much... I couldn't just share it with anyone so I did not include it in my blog for now, but this news will be let out soon, in the appropriate time. I only share it with one particular person who is not involve in this episode and whom I can fully trust. Thanks for listening.

We later played games that involved the ever popular water bombs. Hahaha. As usual, we used the last of our bombs on the game-masters, Irene and Vivian. Hahaha. Irene quickly go and carried her baby son, Kean and use him as a hostage as he was crying. Since Irene was carrying Kean, we decided to throw the water bombs at Kean Vivian instead. I ran after Vivian 2 times and I waited till I close up on her before I sent the water bombs exploding on her back with precise accuracy. Hahaha.

We brought too much food for our pot-luck. End up having to play the "Mysterious Number Game" to make people eat. Hahaha. Vivian striked the mysterious number 3 times!!! (One time thanks to me). Hahaha.

Went for my 1st guitar lesson with John tonight. He was assessing my skill for this lesson. There was another student together with me today, also John's friend by the name... Jing Yin (Elite) who will also be in the same classs with me every week.

So I happened to know 3 out of the 4 required strumming to pass the Beginner's level in the church guitar course. Hahaha. And by the way Cinthia, you may already know, but in case you dunno, the supposingly shortcut chord "F" you taught me is actually a "F/A", which is suppose to be a more advance chord. Hahaha.

Got this chest pain since morning. I thought I got a heart attack. Hahaha. Actually, it's the gym workout yesterday that is causing the pain. Was training my arms and chest muscles yesterday, didn't do proper stretching exercises. Thou it is a little too late now, one could still apply some muscle rub do some stretching on the chest to aid recovery. Ouch... Hope the pain will subside quickly.

Iron Sharpens Iron

Feeling frustrated easily recently. Because of stress? No idea. But if it is stress, then I must look to God to overcome it.

Did I ever share that I was quite a bad tempered person back in the past? I probably swing to the extreme now. Either I am happy (most of the time), or I will reach my limits and blow up (rarely but uncontrolable when happens).

This period of time seems to be a time of trials and testing once again. My anger is surfacing, cuz so much things are happening, personal issues, study issues, relationship issues and CG issues. Little things just piss my off easily. I may not go around showing my frustration but I throw it at my close friends, and I feel bad about it.

Once again, I see myself praying this prayer, "God, make me more open, deal with my anger problem."

I really wish to be more gentle as I am generous. Hahaha. I feel so bad, yet so grateful to the friends who allow me to vent my anger in front of them. So just wanna say sorry, at the same time, thank you. I will change for the better, for God loves me just the way I am, but He loves me too much not to change me. I promise that too.

I will be a better person, a better son, a better friend everyday. I will strive towards the upward goal of perfection. In Jesus name.

P.S. Blogging is so good, finally writing down all these thoughts so that I can review myself after awhile to look at the person I used to be and have I change for the better, months and even years from now.

GYM with the BBC!

This is the 1s time Briony joined us!! Hahaha. Did more strength training machine this time round since my back pain is gone. Thanks to the machines, the pain is back thou. My neck is aching as I type this entry. Ouch.

Oh, treat Briony and Cinthia to Crystal Jade, finally! Ordered, La Mien, Si Ji Dou, Carrot Pastry, Crispy Roast Pork, Chives Dumplings and the famous Xiao Long Bao! Yummy! Hahaha.

We went to walk around and visited a shop that selling baking equipment and ingredients. Saw these HUGH chocolate bars for baking. Hahaha.

I wish Cinthia would be happier... Dun know what happened but I do pray you will feel better. :)

A "New" Beginning.

This music you here now on my blog signifies the starting of a journey for the hero of the RPG, and it signifies the resurrection, a new beginning of the whole world that was purged into non-existence.

I went for a new hairdo today, accompanied by Briony and Cinthia. Hahaha. Went to have my hair done at REDS at Bugis Junction and it's pretty well-done (I dun mean as if in steak) and the hairstylist recommended and taught me how to use clay to style my hair. So later went with Briony to get hair clay. It's $8+! So expensive!!! Hahaha.

Cinthia left early to meet her members for the church-wide bible study. I went with Briony to eat Pizza at The Bentobox at Jurong Point. We ordered the wasabi seafood pizza and Briony asked for extra wasabi. So I went over to the counter and ordered the pizza and ask for "more" wasabi. When we are eating, both of us could only taste the heavy cheese but NO wasabi!!! I wondered if the person heard "no" wasabi instead... (Wasabi pizza without wasabi... reminds me of "chicken rice don't want chicken" and "ice kacang hot"). But still, it's pretty nice. Hahaha.

Only sat with Sjeting during the bible study. Other members were either late and couldn't sit with us or going the next day. Pastor was teaching about the significance of the Tabernacle of God in the Old Testements and how it applies to the church.

Basically, Pastor touch on the Outer Court of the Tabernacle and the 3 main aspects of the furniture found there.

The Blazen Altar = The salvation of the new believer.
The Laver = Water baptism.
The Horns on the Altar = The baptism of the Holy Spirit.

These are the 3 most basic experience in the life of the new Christian. Missing any of it would means you totally miss out on the real experience with the God who wants to know you. This 3 experience signifies a New Birth, a New Life broke free from the bondage of sins. In lay man's term, it signifies a New Beginning.

It reminds me that this is indeed the foundation of the Chirstian faith. As we move on to do greater things, let us not forget the basic things that supported us so far. It is terrible to climb so high only to fall hard because of a weak foundation. Never lift oneself up in pride, always be sure to check and judge oneself before God have to judge you (better to humble oneself than to have God humble you). Always remember your 1st love, that's Jesus.

A new hairdo and a bible study on a new beginning. Goes pretty well huh? And I am wearing a new top, a new pair of jeans, a new bag and a new pair of spectacles today. Hahaha.