Gigs and Geeks.

Last Friday, went to this bar at Bugis called The Gashaus to support Alex's gig. The crowd was really wild that night, especially during Gethsemane's performance. Here are a few photos that a journalist from Nightlife.Com took.


That's Alex and his band, "Gethesemane".


Photos of me and my CG members. We also took photos with other supporters. :)


This is my friend, Julia, whom I used to serve together in Bookstore Ministry. Happen to see her here. :)


A video I shot during Alex's perfomance.

We didn't manage to stay throughout the whole performance. The whole thing was suppose to last till 11pm but since some of us had yet to have dinner, we left after Gethsemane's performance.

We came to this eatery that sells Taiwan's food, just across Bugis Junction. It used to sell smelly beancurd but apparently, it has to stop doing so because people were complaining.


Doesn't this bowl of "Kong Ba" rice goes well with Yixuan? Haha.

Helped out with the Extreme Makeover on Saturday. Basically helping the residents living in one two-rooms flats around Redhill to clean and paint their house.

I have 17 students plus one teacher (who happened to be my friend, Jing Ying!) attached to me.

We were assigned 4 units on the 8th and 9th floor of Blk XX. However on that day, 3 units cancelled their appointments because of family problems. Then later, a resident from the 15th floor also wanted her flat painted. The request was approved so I was assigned that unit too.

Apparently, I need to keep going around to source for equipments and running between level 8 and level 15 to oversee the two units. Since the old lifts don't serve the levels in between, I have to keep running up and down the stairs and slightly twisted my right archilles tendon.

It was very tiring yet it was fun. It is always a pleasure to serve the community.

Later on, we rushed to church and my friend, Kelly gave us a lift. Haha.

Went for the Marriage Enrichment course last weekend. I have to say it is one of the best bible study I ever attended. Pastor taught about the purpose of marriage and taught many other issue regarding relationships and the roles of husbands and wives.

Thank goodness Pastor decided to open this bible study to the whole church. I believe people should learn about such things way before even they want to get married. After all, if it is only open to the married couples, those whose marriage is already on the rocks probably will not attend. Then the only ones who attend are most likely having healthy marriage. Know what I mean? Haha.

Anyway, I was down with flu last week, kept tearing, having running nose and headache and missed the prayer meeting on Tuesday. Man...

It was worse when I try to look into the monitor. My eyes will keep tearing. Even experience that before? Haha. Anyway, I am fine now and I have to catch up with all the tutorials that my class have submitted to me and I am suppose to collaborate and submit to the lecturers.

Stress? Yup. But enjoying it. Haha.

Week of Fellowship

Being more then a week since I blogged but this weeks goes like this.

On Wednesday, I went down to TTSH to visit Sjeting's Granny. Since I was very early, I went to shop around and read newspaper at Ya Kun at United Square. I also bought a new watch at $124.50, with was already after 50% discount! Haha. Praise God for Great Singapore Sale.

Currently, I own 9 watches. The cheapest is only $10 while the most expensive is a Tag Heuer which cost $1000+ (obviously a gift from my mum, haha)

Met up with Sjeting when she arrived. Her granny had chest infection and was bed-bounded for near 2 weeks. However, the good news is that one of Sjeting's cousin had already led her in the Sinner's Prayer. Praise the Lord! I prayed for her just before I left. Remember to pray for her!

Since I was alone after that, I called Jacelyn, one of my ministry member who happen to work in Novena Square, and meet up with her.

We went to try out this chicken rice stall at Seah Street, Sin Swee Kee Chicken Rice Restaurant, as we are organizing a ministry fellowship that on Sunday. It is not bad, the rice is fragrant, the chicken is smooth.

The most commendable dish has to be the Fried Tofu with Thai Salad Sauce. The fried tofu skin absorded the sweet, sour and spicy favour of the sauce. This dish is crunchy on the outside and juicy on the inside! Awesome!

Later, Jace brought me to this dessert store down Bras Basah Road called Ah Qiu Dessert. She ordered Almond Paste (this dish is a No No for me. Haha!) and I ordered Peanut Paste.

It is indeed one of the better peanut paste I have ever eaten, smooth and rich though Jace said the one at Chinatown would be better. I have yet to tried that though. :)

I also brought Jace to Musuem of Shanghai Toys after that. I can't remember how many times I went there but all my friends really enjoyed themselves there. We spent nearly one and a half hours there! Haha.

Jace was quite caught up with some of the puzzle games. She seems to like such games... though she isn't exactly that good at it. Haha.

Here, she was trying to solve the Seven-Piece Puzzle. A puzzle that have seven pieces and a frame with many ways to arrange it.



Reached home nearly at 12 that night.


On Thursday, I rushed off after school to watch Pirates of the Caribbean with my CG. My friends Lina and Wang Ling also joined us. Read "YO HO! YO HO! A PiRatE's LiFe foR mE!" on W372's blog for more of it.


Friday. Went to attend briefing at CHEC for the Extreme Makeover, a community project to help refurbish the flats of elderly who live alone. The event will be held on the morning of 22th July. Do join us if you are interested!

Went to have dinner/supper with some of the Copers at Burger King, Raffles City. Another good time of fellowship.


Went for COPE saturation on Saturday. Tiring but fun as usual. Finally get to lunch with the Copers again. Haha. I used to have bible study just before service and have to rush off after ministry. Now that bible study would be after service, it means I will get to fellowship more often with my ministry members. Haha.

Rev. Che An preached today and he was sharing his life with us. It was amazing how he came to receive Jesus in the midst of all his drug addiction and immorality and become the man he is today. He is indeed a living testimony of the goodness of God.

Rev. Che An also prayed for the sick and many healing takes place. People with knee, stomach and other problems were healed. The atmosphere of faith was so strong that day that some of the healing took place even before people start praying for them! Praise the Lord! I have noted that many people seems to have back problems in my church. Haha. May the Lord heal them.

Went to have chicken rice at this place which Alex have recommended. It is somewhere near Peace Centre but I can't remember where. One of the sauce they provide was grinded ginger and it goes really well with the chicken! After that, we went to this soya bean shop two units away which sells the smoothest soya bean curd I ever eaten!


Sunday, sleep as much as possible. Was going to meet a few Copers for dinner at City Hall, 6pm. Went to visit my grandparents before that. I was glad they seemed pretty well.

Wanted to get something at Bugis before going to City Hall. Jace called me as she had just finished watching Pirates of the Caribbeans with her Colleauges at Plaza Singapura. We meet up at Bugis and walked to City Hall to meet the rest of the Copers.

We went to Sin Swee Kee Chicken Rice Restaurant (That is the 3rd time I ate chicken rice this week! Haha.) and ordered quite a lot of dishes. There was only 6 of us, Jace, Vincent, James, Yee Kiat, Yehui and me but it was a good fellowship. Do not despise small beginnings. Haha. I am sure we can get more people to join u next time.

We also went to shop at Bugis street as Vincent wanted to look for some clothes for his workplace. Later on, we went down to Ah Qiu's Dessert Shop. I ordered the Coffee Flavoured Fresh Milk with Steam Egg, Vincent ordered Mango with Sago and Ice-cream, Jace ordered Grass Jelly with Longan, James ordered Bubur Hitam with Ice-cream, Ye Hui ordered Mango with Sago and Yee Kiat ordered Yam with Sago.

My dessert wasn't bad. However, I think the Mango with Sago was the best! I got to tried one spoonful from Yehui's and it was fabulous! Gotta order that for myself the next time I go there.


Really enjoyed myself this week. Haha. I hope I can get to know the Copers more.

God is Good. :)

Time for Leisure?

Things that I have yet to do.

1. I bought some snow jelly from the frog farm 2 weeks ago. Still yet to make desserts out of it. Reason? Too busy.

2. Jacelyn came back from Kuantan last week and gave me some salted fish. Still yet to cook 咸鱼炒饭 (Salted fish fried rice) with it. Reason? No time. Thanks Jace for the salted fish thou. :)

3. Complete the copying of Ecclesiastes into a notebook. Reason? Lazy. Haha. Ok, I was tired too.

And I was on 2 days MC last week because of stomach flu. I have to make up for my hospital attachment last Saturday and this coming Saturday. Missed two weeks of COPE ministry. That is so annoying.

Lesson learnt? Don't ever fall sick again. (Or try to fall sick less often.)

Finally started off with my weight training exercises. Hopefully the muscles on my arms and shoulders will start to be visible by the end of this month. Haha. No matter how little time I have, I guess it is still good to keep myself healthy.

So school has started and still so little time. ICA projects are getting more demanding. The higher you climb, the more is expected of you.

Lesson learnt about living in this society?
You are either a winner or a loser. You are either someone useful or you are trash. A little contribution is still much. Do the best in everything in hand. Know your limits and work within your means.

What is this post about?
It is to commemorate the end of my second year and the start of my third year in Nursing Course. Haha.

拉到脸青青

Here is an interesting video taken during a farm visit with COPE.

Parental guidance advised.
THE FROG PREP.


Just when I thought my attachments are almost over, I have to come down with stomach flu, diarrhoea, vomiting and back sprain. Totally no appetite at all... The sight of food and the smell of strong spices (e.g. curry) makes me nausea.

Still having diarrhoea. Still feeling giddy the whole day, probably due to dehydration. No matter how much water I drank, my mouth still feels very dry...

Slept the whole day yesterday. It is amazing how much I can sleep when I am sick... Most likely not going for CG tonight... Haiz...

My stomach grumbling again... hope it will be alright by tomorrow.

Self-Reflection

It has being a week since I blogged.

I will be performing in front of sixty ambassadors from Africa this Friday. Stress sia. Haha. Apparently, many were called but only six were chosen to perform practical skills for the guests. Had to rush to school today to practise till 5.30pm.

What's more, I am fasting.

Am I tired? Of course I am. But I am enjoying everything at the same time. Haha.

Got to know some other students from nursing today. One of them looks so strikingly like a friend I used to know that I thought maybe they were related. But they weren't, of course.

One of the thing that I really look forward to everyweek is the reply of my spiritual diary from Sister Darryl.

So come to think about it, my words are indeed harsh at times. Although I may love unconditionally, I may just be over-zealous when it comes to work attitude.

I got to admit. I tend to be judgmental. That, I have to change, for sure.

For most people, I am friendly and hilarious. Yes, crappy at times. For some people, I am their worst nightmare. Meticulous and unwavering.

Perhaps, it is the nature of my work, every decision could mean life or death.

But still, I could be less judgmental and be more loving instead.

My post isn't making much sense? I guess that is because I am sleepy. YAWN*

So said, I hope I can do a more detailed post next time.

Christians. Holy or Hole-ly?

Back to the hospital again. It's busy day in day out. Couldn't blog so often now.

So my Grandpa was discharged and my attachment has started.

What else is interesting? I realized that I am a very night person. Haha. Tend to feel real sleepy during the morning duty. However, I seems to get more and more active during the afternoon duty when evening time is approaching. Haha. Maybe I should ask for permanent night duties next time?

Nonetheless, I built a pretty good rapport with my patients and all the nurses; staff nurses, assisstant nurses and student nurses, as usual.

Seeing the mistakes that others made (actually, most of the mistakes are made by one student and she never learn) helped me to learn from them. Everyone in the ward hates her and they have reasonS to do so. She is a Chirstian since birth, fast regularly but her attitude speaks of another thing.

Another crazy girl from the previous attachment is in the same ward again. I make it a point not to go near her. She is scary (psychotic). I openly talked to everyone except her, steering clear of her whenever she pass by. Apparently she isn't popular with others too, and worst, she is also a Christian.

Sometimes I wonder, it is no wonder no one likes Christians. Not just because the Lord says we will face persecution, but sometimes it is just the consequences of our own actions and attitudes. Even my mother would used to associates all the bad attributes like agressiveness, rude, selfishness and laziness with Christians. Well, with Christians like these out there, who could blame my mum from believing so?

God looks on the inside, but man isn't God, man looks on the outside (unless you are Prof X from the X-Men). In fact, what you do reflects what is truly on the inside of you. So please don't try to talk all holy when you are showing all the lousy attitudes. It is like eating the wrong stuff and the stomach wants to force it out. It makes people want to puke.

Fasting and praying while showing lousy attitudes, it is meaningless - like chasing the wind.

Oh well, with my presence in the ward these days, what used to be in the hearts of people, everyone starts to pour it out to me. Strange, but now everyone in the ward openly shows their displeasure to the first girl I talked about. I have nothing against that. After all, our service is to our patients and the hospital. If there is poor service, it should be brought out and not kept, so that service can improve.

With the over-saturation of nurses in the current market, it will also do good to sieve out the bad ones. After all, no one wants their patient to suffer and die in the hands of some incompetent and uninterested nurses. And it also give other hopefuls out there a chance to join nursing.

可喜可贺。可喜可贺。

外公住院已经是第二天了。他因为脑出血而头痛，整个人变得很累，站也站不起来。其中的原因是因为服用药物 Waffarin 的副作用。

Not going to use Chinese anymore. Ah!!! I can speak Mandarin pretty well but my "typing" of the language will take ages!

Anyway, I was saying that today is the second day my grandpa is hospitalize. He had bleeding in the brain and it is causing him to have headaches and body weakness. He slept alomost the whole day and he couldn't even master the strength to stand up.

It is partly due to the medication, Waffarin, he is taking. The side effect of this drug is the tendency to bleed. Also, he had history of stroke.

When I was about to visit him today, I just felt I really need to pray for him before I leave the house. After praying, I just sense something isn't quite right so I decided to take a cab.

While on the cab, my mum called me and told me that grandpa is going for an emergency operation within two hours time to remove the blood clot in the brain. You can't believe how anxious I was.

Nonetheless, I stayed with my grandpa and prayed with him, asking for his recovery and a few more good years to be added to him.

The surgery took nearly 4 hours but it turned out successful. PRAISE THE LORD!

Currently, he needs to be under observation for 48 hours and if everything is well, he should be able to leave the ICU to a step-down unit or the general ward.

Grandpa is certainly looking much better after the surgery. He is more alert now.

While looking at the sickly grandpa, I remembered the days when he was younger and healthier, when he could still drive and bring us out every Sunday to eat, to shop and to play.

My name, "Benjamin", which means "Favourite Son" in Hebrew befits me well. As the first grandson, I was adored by everyone in the family. I remembered that my grandpa always buy toys for me whenever we went out to shop.

Among my toys include those big LEGO sets, action figures of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, G.I. Joes and a full set of Star Wars Action figures! Yes! I remember Han Solo, Storm Troopers, Luke Skywalker, R2D2, CPO3 and even Darth Vader among them! Haha.

In fact, mum was telling me that all it takes was for me to stare at any toy for a little while, my grandpa would just get it for me.

Thank God that the operation is successful. May God protect my beloved grandpa.

Anyway, I also saw Ms. Gwendoline at the ward. She happened to be the facilitator there and she came over to talk to me for awhile.

Yup. I also wanna thank all of you who had prayed for my grandpa and in one way or another showed concerned for him.

I am happy now. At least the worst seems to be over. PRAISE THE LORD!