Last Day of work at CCC HQ...

Time really flies man! today is my last day of my 2 months volunteer with CCC... but quite werid things have been happening in the office for the past few days... haha

for the past few days, i've been installing Linux on 2 PCs and to RAID 1 of them... the thing is that for one of the PC, it always hang when installing halfway, and the other one after installing it hang when booting up... we keep thinking it's either the CD or selection problem and keep retrying for more than 1 day, but still couldn't work... after searching the net, we found that the first problem was because one of the RAM is faulty and the second one is because of the network cable which cause the system to hang...

then today got 3 person in the ministry not feeling well and took MC and for the past 2 days also got ppl take leave, so for the past 3 days the office looks a bit dull and from tmr i'll not be there anymore... :( hope they'll go back tmr if not will also kind of short of manpower liao...

we also had our badminton time today... but with those ppl not feeling well, we ended up with only 5 ppl playing instead of the usual 9... but it's still fun, and i get some tips for training for NS from my fellow brothers... great! also a conicidence is that we had Badminton on my offical first and last day (1 July & 31 Aug) with CCC HQ, and there's none in between... haha...

really enjoyed working there, and thanks for those who supported and prayed for me during this period... will miss the time there man, esp after i go NS...

Aussie Team meeting... and after that...

saturday, we had our 3rd offical team meeting after the trip... me and june were helping to organise this meeting... at 1st when we ask a week ago, everybody can make it except 1 person... so we tot that we could have 11 ppl making it...

then 2 days before the meeting 1 person said she cannot... this one still nvm... but the most sweat thing is that 3 person last min cannot make it.. and another sweat thing is that the person who at 1st say cannot one came... haha.. so we got 8 ppl...

we went to suntec's city Joaquim Buffet Restaurant there to have our lunch and meeting... the buffet is quite cheap, only $9.80 nett, even on weekends...the name is actually porridge buffet but there's many other things to eat too, like kua chap, rice... the most famous one is the duck, where the chef just keep chopping and we just take.. haha... the restaurant didn't provide drinks, and if we want must buy... but there's dessert which has the syrup which we can drink la.. so we took a big bowl meant for porridge to fill the desert.. .sweat man.. the bowl so big sia... too bad i didnt take photo.. then nobody use the small bowls which was supposely meant for desert...

after that we share with one another and pray for each other and our aussie contacts... which is quite meaninful esp that we havent met for 49 days...

after the meeting, we went to marina square to shop for a while.. wow.. that place has change alot after the renovation.. cant even regonise it and almost got lost inside... hehe.. but should get use to it after a few more visits... after that me and kitty went to suntec to buy something before she went to meet her friend

as it was still early, i went to the new national library which i havent been there before since it open... nice man.. the building is high... 16 storey and it's mainly made of glass, so can see very far.. very good scenery... and seldom see escalator at 14 storey.. can take escalator all the way to 14 storey... there's also glass lift, which is quite scary sia as it's 14 storey... and the speed is very fast too, esp when going down.. like you're dropping down like that... the faith hearted should take the other lift or not look outside... haha

time is really fast... my final week working in CCC

wow... time is really fast... and i've come to my last week of work in CCC... i'll be working until 31 Aug which is next wed, so it's less than 5 more work days liao... will miss all the time here man, esp after i go NS...

after that it'll be just another 9 days and i'll be in NS liao... hope the 700+ days will fly by too... haha... then i'll be back to study in ntu... haha

watching Batman 1... the 1966 one... and playing RISK... me like very blur sia...

yest before the dinner in the afternoon, we actually watch a DVD called Batman 1... this was the first batman series ever...the one with the potbellied adam west in his leotards running around biff bamming villans, the one with the *excellent* props and the one with one of the coolest batmobiles ever designed...

we watched it at the chuch lounge, which has a good sound system but is kind of cramp... but ok lar, cos we focusing on the show... throughout the show we were all laughing like crazy... we laugh so loud that even those 50 meters away can hear our laughter... oh no... hope we didnt disturb anyone...

then during the show we ate ice cream.. is like in between all those big buffet i still eating ice cream... no wonder why the pants is also so tight today... but as the room is not air-con, the ice-cream melt quite fast... so after a while we like 'drinking' the ice cream instead...
after the show, we went on to play this game called RISK while waiting to go for the dinner... it's my first time playing this game cos i dun usually play games.. so i like very blur... keep asking my friends which one means what... we are suppose to complete at least one mission given to you... like conquering a land or kill your enemy (ie your opponent).. but i not use to the game so like lost a few army for nothing...

the game will take quite long to complete so like before we get to finish the game, it's time to go for the dinner... but is a good experince so that next time i wont be so blur when playing this type of games liao...

whoa... eat sooooo much... gonna be like a pig... haha

Throughout the weekend, which is the past 2 days.. i have been eating like mad... cos i went to those 'Eat all You can' A-la Crate buffet for 2 days dinner in a row... wow..

on saturday i went with my parents to a restaurant call River City restaurant at Excelsior hotel... there we ordered like 20 over dishes.. with prawn, fish, crabs.. etc...then eat until like the stomach totally full to the brim... haha

then on sunday.. i know the church is going for a thanksgiving dinner for the concert last week, but i din know that we'll be having the 'Eat all you can' style... so is like.. whoa.. going to eat other load of food again...

the restaurant is called Lotus Garden... at the old Jurong town swimming pool there... from our table can see the swimming pool without the water.. then it's a diving pool so it's a deep one and we can see the bottom... like 4.5m deep.. scary sia.. if stand beside it and sure die if not kena cripple one if u fell in without the water... haha

now back to the restaurant and the food.. some ppl there got allergy to seafood so they can't eat prawns... so in the end like i ended up eating almost half the plate of the prawns.. abt 10.. i think gonna get high cholesterol if i continue eating... then some of the sisters at our table can't eat very much.. then after the 1st round they're full liao... so they want to eat dessert... so i tot maybe have the dessert first then later call for some more... but this one after calling the dessert cannot order other food liao... sweat! i dunno abt other places cause i dont usually do that... cos this type of buffet i always want to try as many as possible one... like very 'tan xin' hor... haha
but then after walking a while and wanting to try more food.. so feel hungry liao... luckily we got another 3 tables cos we have abt 40 ppl there so got 4 tables ma... so those from our table who still want to eat go to another table... actually abit paiseh but they keep passing me the food... so in the end keep eating non stop again... feel so bad... hee~... but one of the table with all brothers one they ordered like 31 out of the 46 dishes there... order until i think the waitress and cook got angry... haha..

i think gonna control my diet this wk... cos like going to have buffet again this and next saturday... really like enjoying myself b4 the NS... but if like that go in sure die one.. then i enlisting the following saturday liao... siao liao... must loosen the belt by one button today... think gonna eat little or fast when possible this wk... haha...

Festival of Praise (FOP)

the annual festival of praise which was held at the indoor staduim had just ended last wk... this is the biggest worship event of the year, and this year with Hillsong Australia and Delirious.. no doubt it will be great...

i went for the sat and sun one... me and some of my friend reach around 4pm and the queue is already like so long... but luckily some of my cruasade friends went there earlier so we just join them in the queue below the bridge... haha.. sound so bad.. cut queue..

at 6pm when the doors open, everybody gets so excited and push one another to try to enter the staduim fast.. whoa.. looks like abit out of control.. we were at the east gate which has a overhead bridge which we had to go through.. when i was at the top and look down.. couldn't believe it.. there were sooo many ppl and i couldn't see the queue end.. i think those ppl who came at this time wont have place to get in, esp on sat..

then in the staduim, we try to book seats for our friends as they're behind in the queue.. thank god most of them managed to came in on time, but got a few they got stuck outside becos the staduim is full already.. our group is like really big as since there are alot of crusaders in my church JCC, we queue up and sit together.. think we took up almost 4 rows of seats.. abt 40 ppl like that.. but good i managed to meet up with some ex-crusaders..

the whole event was great, esp the worship with hillsongs around.. all the great and powerful songs.. and some of us started jumping to praise god.. esp the song 'One Way'.. haha.. nv jump so great b4.. hehe.. the speaker Rev Colin Dye so called sermon, or the word of god, was great too..

for both days some of us had to the cab home.. on sat we went for dinner and then there was long queue at the kfc, so by the time we get our food it's too late to catch the train liao.. so had to take cab.. luckily got share cab, if not $22.. siao liao.. then on sun the fop only ended past 11pm.. some ppl went off earlier but i still want to praise, sing and jump to praise and worship.. so me, zq and a few of us stay till the end.. then also too late to catch the train as we went to look at the cds.. so we took bus to clementi to take cab.. it's cheaper this way, but i only reach home at 1am..

overall the FOP was super great! the feeling there is so great and rox.. but have to tahan the before and after show 'drama'.. that is squeezing through all the ppl, queue up under the hot sun, for bus, etc... but i think it's worth it, for such a famous band here.. looking forward to next year's.. hope i can make it..