RSAF day / Open house & COMEX...

it's end of aug and the annual RSAF day and COMEX are here again... this year, being part of the air force, i should be involve with somethings on 1 Sep, most likely is direct traffic la, cos RP ma... haha...

the open house will be at paya lebar air base which i wont be involved with cos i still in tengah till 15 sep... should count myself lucky, cos just got the new schedule that my shift is off on this sat & sun again! means i got the whole weekend... still thinking whether want to go for the open house or not... many ppl i know will be there and i should be going back on 15 sep...

then also got the COMEX from tmr till sunday... another IT show and i definately wish to go... althought still havent decide what to buy yet, but i think will burn a big hole in the pocket once i start buying... this year is at Expo, so it's like 1hr + journey to go there compare to suntec which is at a centralise location... there is from 1 end to the other for those at the west side like me... hehe...

another sunday, & 2nd last b4 ZQ enter NS...

it's another sunday and as it's the last sun of the month, my church have combined service with the adult instead of youth... as the adult service only starts at 1030am instead of 9am, we'll usually have our cell grp first at 9am... after not having go for a full combined service for a few months, i think the situation still the same...

usually when come to combine service, many ppl would tend to overslept or lazy to wake up earlier to come for the cell grp at 9, even though most ppl can make it for service... this phenomenum is like going on for the past 3 years, (which i'm also gulity of it b4, during those time when i was bz with study and choir)... i think must do something abt it...

then my cellgroup most ppl are in NS now so our attendace is not so regular.. with zhi qiang going in next fri, i think attendace will get worse... must pray that most of us will be able to have our sun free and that we can continue to meet up and pray for one another...

having buffet dinner...

i took 1 day off from one of my off in lieu today... from the 2 dismount day where they tell get to go back to helpout last time... so it's a sat & sun off this week... but yest kena a 24 hr gate, so the duty is more xiong and cannot go back to sleep in bunk... usually if take leave the next day then your previous day duty will be more xiong...

this evening went out for dinner with my family... actually we planned to go to sakura at clementi for the buffet dinner but when we reach there, the waiter says that it's fully booked and we have to wait for a while, even though there's qutie a number of empty seats... we decided not to wait cos since it's buffet i think ppl will be there for quite long, usually wont come out so soon...

so we took a cab to harbourfront... there got dragon gate restaurant where there's eat all you can buffet... this one is you order they serve to your table instead of you go out to take... but both u can eat as much as u can... we got eat like 3 fishes, crabs, etc.... eat until the stomach is like totally full... dunno what's my weight now.. haha... next time then weigh ba, dun want to get a shock... haha... tmr morning can go church directly from home and go for the whole service... yeah...

booking in at a later time today...

today as there's some ppl from the NDP contingent helping out during the day, our shift can book in later in the evening at 5.30pm instead of the usual 7.30am... so got an extra 10hrs to do my things at home...

actually feel quite weird that i've to go back to camp later in the evening, haven't tried it b4... last time during trainee time is not so early, usually at 9pm... except sometimes during bmt but that's so long liao... almost a year... that means passing the midway point soon... haha... must endure another year lor...

More helpouts in duty...

for the past 2 days, we had those NDP and ASLC ppl helping out in the duties... currently those ndp guard of honour are still rehearsing for the RSAF day but not as many days as the ndp, so they could helpout more... also the aslc has just passed out and waiting to get their sgt rank to be specs... now they just helpout in some of the duties...

as such we did much lesser duties compared to other days... on the 1st day i only stand like abt 2 hrs and 2nd day i stand 3 hrs then after that rest for 11+hrs before doing 2.5 hrs... then this morning do 4 hrs... so do less than 12 hrs for 2 days... usually when low manpower we can do 12 hrs in just 1 day... so is consider slack liao...

another weekend duty this week, tmr and sun... not so xiong during wkend cos so gates are not open, but couldn't enjoy the weekend... next wk then i think can enjoy both sat and sun cos i taking sat off... then can go for my church service fully on sun...

it's sunday...

another dismount day... but quite sianz for the last mount, cos now got the heighten security due to the london bomb scare... now may have to do more checks... another than that still go well cos got the reservist help out so the duty not so xiong...

now still dunno when we going back paya lebar... and on fri heard that maybe paya lebar going to change the shift system to like tengah type, which means no more work 2 rest 2 and alternate weekend... sianz man.. if this is true i think will rather stay in tengah... cos nearner to my house le...

think i still suffering from the post FOP and overnight prayer event... this year like quite bad compare to last year where we still have a youth concert over this weekend... which means last year now still bz with the concert things and not rest... maybe becos of duty, so didn't get regular hrs of sleep on duty days... must get strength from god and hold the fop and overnite prayer spirit... then can really be bless and feel the power......

JCC Overnight Prayer 2006

just came back from the church overnight prayer... we've just prayed through the whole of last night without sleeping... wow praise the god he sustain us through...
the overnight prayer starts at around 8pm yest... its the first time the eng and chi sect are having it together to mark the end of the 40 days prayer and fast since July 1... we had some worship devotion first b4 we started to pray... it's quite fruitful as we pray for the world, singpore, church, cell, etc...

at around 11pm i started to feel sleeply and almost fell asleep afew times... but after 12am and getting the strength of god then all good to go again... i was asked to help to be vocalist for the 2 worship at 1 and 6am... got practice abit last sun... but i think got some prob with the mics so cannot hear the voice properly... sianz at first... but still worship god anyway...
through the night we pray and did prayer walk... sometimes when other ppl praying i think i fall asleep for a while... think so.. haha.. but its around 4am... most of the time still awake la.. and we pray in groups for the kindengarden and community...

we ended the overnight prayer with a final worship at 6am and a breakfast at taman jurong food centre... now should recharge energy first b4 enjoying national day... but dun have tickets to NDP, so later see how lor...

Festival of Praise 2006 (Sun)

Today i managed to get some ppl from crusade going, but no church ppl going... sianz... this year really quite low profile as crusade also only got around 10... still rem last year sun got almost 40 ppl in the group... (can refer to last year's posting) hehe...

we plan to meet at kallang mrt at 4.45pm but as me and zq go straight from church so will reach there late... they decided to go first to book place... but now as the PA office there cannot pass through liao so have to walk the long way and i think they got lost or wat... in the end we take bus there and reach ahead of them.. sweat rite.. haha... then today even better.. there's no queue at all when we reach... the door has open liao of cos.. so managed to enter the stadium in 1 min... hahaha... some more still got front seats... at first sianz cos i tot really no hillsong ppl not coming liao... but after a while still ok.. most ppl come at 6+ and total got abt 3/4 full... although compare to last year full house is still less and weird cos fop usually is nearly full house...
for the 2 days the speaker El Silvoso spoke about things related to The Market Place which i think is quite relavant... the market place doesnt have to be doing business... it can be your school too... the speaker also spoke quite powerful...

this year also the whole thing ended quite early... yest end at 9.30pm and today at 10pm... last year for the last night ends after 11pm and have to take taxi home... can say that this year's event is better organised and more orderly than last year's where ppl keep cutting queue.. haha we do it also.. feel so guilty... managed to take public transport home this year and reach home by midnight...

heard next year delirious is coming back.. yeah... but dunno got hillsong or not... lets look forward to it... 3-5 Aug 2007... think that time i starting sch in NTU.. haha...

Festival of Praise 2006 (Sat)

This year's FOP features Don Moen and Christian City church (Syd) band... But this year not many ppl from my church went... asked quite alot of ppl but only a few interested...

Today i only managed to to get 1 of my church ppl and his friend to go... so we just 3 ppl go. cos some can only go tmr... compared to last year's of almost a group of 30 ppl (church n crusade) cos a few crusade ppl go and book queue then we join in n cut the queue later... but this year's the door open earlier and there's more usher around so cannot cut queue... we reach there around 5.30pm, and tot we should be at the very far end of queue... but the queue wasn't long and we managed to get in the stadium in 20 mins.. quiet fast huh? hehe.. and we still managed to get a good seat... even those come after 7pm still got seats... last year like those come after 5.30 cannot enter cos full house liao...

the show itself is still alright, with CCC band coming in first then Don Moen... this year the worship is not as 'jumpy' as last few years where hillsong is around... all stay in their seats compared to all rush down to the bottom when hillsong was around...

Finally the N6610 is working properly

This afternoon went to collect back the Nokia 6610... Thank god it's repair liao and it's working properly, and no data was lost... Now no need to keep changing phones... and btw, my sony ericsson camera phone the battery i just charge full on tues morning then off it... then today when i want to use the battery is totally flat... dunno how does the battery discharge itself so much when it's not use... heard that most of the older sony ericsson models all like that...