Happy Frielentine

Abit the late but...

Happy Valentine's to all you couples out there!

&

Happy Frielentine to my fellow single comrades!

Hehe..actually to tell the truth, i rather enjoyed this valentine's. Of course there was no romatic dinner or bouquet of insanely priced flowers or elaborate gifts. But it was fun never the less. Here is wat I did ( if u have the slightest interest =p):

WOKE UP at 7.30am and marched myself to the library. Yes siree, the nerd mode is back. I noticed tho as i was walking frm vista to imu that ALOT of people were wearing black that valentine's morning.haha found it a lil strange cos trafficlight-red and toothdecaysweet-pink was the usual colours valentine days called for no? Anyways productively finished ONE respi lecture note the whole morning ( but nevertheless still satisfied with myself) and waited for lunch!

LUNCH was spent wit peeps from the imu CG at Taste Walking/Fusion Heaven (which name now? im getting confused). And we celebrated Valene's bday there too! A Valentine baby named Valene who is as sweet as a flower! how appropriate =)

MISSED the 1st lecture by Reddy cos the food took some time to arrive, but strangely i didnt mind at all. Actually, it is VERY strange why i was so happy that day, hmmm....

ARRIVED in time for the 2nd lecture, but there was a great air of excitement in the lecture hall even as Mala Maung gave her lecture (poor dear, promise to pay more attn next time) cos everyone was busy looking out at who got wat flowers from whom. haha...so cute felt just like high skool again =) oh, and even got lil gifts frm friends, ahhh! so happy.

EVENING DESSERT for me,pei,angie,xan,geoff and chris was at the lil shop next to OUG (aiyak forgot the name). Tried to con xan into ordering the 'Ice Fruitty Loh' cos that was what i ordered the last time and everybody laughed at me cos it was basically frozen plain water, some fruits and cincau. Aiya..but she too smart ler =p oOoOohh... and as we were having dessert we saw men marching out proudly of the shopping complex with their bouquets of flowers CLEARLY for some sweet lady they've been thinking of the whole day. *happy sigh* i just thot the scene was a very i dunno... movie-like-material? Of course i know there is more to life than romance and i should use my head more than my 6yearold daydreams but still....*happy sigh* =p

5.30-7ISH was spent at CF. Though it was a short session, i learnt so much for the message that day. Thank you!

THE ROMATIC DINNER was a burger ayam spesial bungkus-ed and eaten in the comfort of my aparment reading the papers. Oh, and there was this really sweet article in the star about an elderly couple, but I can remember their names (sigh wats wit me and remembering important things ah). Will go dig out the article again tmr.

Yeapo...That was my happy Frielentine.

OH! but post-valentine was fun too. Cos after valentine's, it is quite certain that most people will update their blogs wan, so thats thats the perfect time for me to go online and stalk people's blog and find out what they did for valentine's. haha stalking is fun!

ps: aiyo...dunno wats wrong with my blogger, when i try and post they squeeze all my paragraphs together, hence the congested look today.

Subject: Hawtness

Ngek! F.A.I.L

Just a passing thought.

It just occured to me that the holidays are coming to an end....

NoOoOooOoooOoooOoooooOoOOOoooo!

gimmie back, gimmie back more time to be a pig, gimmie more time to "talk" about studying instead of actually doing it, gimmie more time before the dooms of EOS, gimmie more time before i call myself a sem3 student.

hehe...

Artistic Genes

It runs in the family you know, this business of being an artistic genius.

Lesley msged me, asking me if i knew any nice msg's to send to a friend. So i sent her my own Denise-written-oneofakind-limitededition-alloccasion- poem:

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
You are so sweet,
Almost as sweet as Denise the magnificent.

(the ending part doesnt REALLY rhyme, but i thot sweeT and magnificenT both got T so can use together)

~written by Suyin (me)~
~dedicated to all who would not kick me after reading this~

I guess for some reason she didnt use my poem, and instead, half an hour later sent me this:

Friends for life,
They never stray,
Brightening our day,
Wiping all the frustration away,
Even when we fall,
Or sometimes feel so small,
They bubble lil smiles in our skies,
With their silent lullabies,
Bringing us back once more,
To our fairtale world before,
Where princes & princess flew at night,
In the sky where clouds are fleecy white,
Where baby fairies covered with lace,
Munching honey cookies till very late, <---------------- I especially like this part!
And when all has dimmed... before the day starts again,
Together they watch,
The sunrise in the golden lane...
Oh how precious those memories were to me,
My friend for now & forever will be...

~written by Suwen (my sis)~
~dedicated specially to her close friend Siew Ying~


WaAaAaAaAaaah...........
Seriously almost as good as my poem leh *salute* =p

Example of a non-compliant patient.

Oh uh...dentist going to scold me AGAIN.

Poor doc, she is wonderfull dentist but has been trying to get me to wear the elastic bands for my braces for the past dunno how many months ready. Its not that i purposely dont want to to wear wan, its just.... its just...just very easy to forget la.

Our standard conversation for the past 5 check ups:

Doctor: " Denise ah, i told you ady ah..must wear your elastics deligently wan. See, the gap from 3mm become 4 mm already, how to continue if the gap still so big? (err... ignore this last part if you dont have braces or dont understand dentist-talk)"

Denise: *muffled noises with all the orthodontic equipment still in her mouth*

Doctor: Ahh...you come back in 1months time, and i this time i will have a special method of checking if you wore the elastics ah. So you better wear them k?

Denise: *nodnodnodnod*

Oh uh... so once again,my 1 month is up ady.

*GASP* i just had a scary revelation: what if i end up wearing braces for the rest of my life?! *GASP*

ps: next time you catch me eating or talking witout my elastics please knock me on the head (HARD) and hand me a picture of a 60year old grandmother still with her braces? You would be doing me and my future husband a great favour, thank you.

Cant seem to come up with a title today

Just called about my CVS results.

SOMEBODY weep with me?

On the other hand,

Didnt realise eCard websites actually had some pretty interesting stories:

Storm Child.

A little girl walked daily to and from school. Though the weather that morning was questionable and clouds were forming, she made her daily trek to the elementary school. As the afternoon progressed, the winds whipped up, along with thunder and lightning. The mother of the little girl felt concerned that her daughter would be frightened as she walked home from school, and she herself feared that the electrical storm might harm her child.

Following the roar of thunder, lightning, like a flaming sword, would cut through the sky. Full of concern, the mother quickly got into her car and drove along the route to her child's school. As she did so, she saw her little girl walking along, but at each flash of lightning, the child would stop, look and smile. Another and another were to follow quickly, each with the little girl stopping, looking at the streak of light and smiling.
Finally, the mother called her over to the car and asked, "What are you doing?" The child answered, "God just keeps taking pictures of me,"

Lord, help me to trust You as much as this little one, especially when the storms of life crash around me.

Mr.Tan

Today is my father's a.k.a Pa's birthday!

Yerps, Mr.Tan is turning 49 this year. And i must admit, he doenst look half his age =P
But Pa, the reading glasses is cramping your style just abit ler hehe...

So just like many of his past birthdays, he woke up at 7am this morning, did some weird excercise like movements in the front porch, woke the lazybums up *points at Les and Rachel*, went out to buy breakfast and is now downstairs reading his book. No celebrations, no elaborate lunches or dinners, not even a birthday cake. And thats how he likes it.

Once when i asked him why he didnt buy us birthday cakes on our birthdays anymore (half hinting my 15th bday which was a few months away =p), he told us that birthday celebrations were for when we were little. And that as we grew up and understood the world and our purpose in it more, birthdays were yearly wake up calls. It is the time of year when we sit and reflect on ourselves. What have we done with the 49 or 20 years granted to us on earth? What have we done to enrich the world with our presence? What have we said to help another life live better?And only if and when we realise we have done enough (which i never have on my yearly wake up calls) then we have a reason to celebrate.

Haha...kind of a party-pooper eh? There are alot more un-conventional things about my Pa that i adore. Some who meet my Pa think that he is really quiet and a lil too strict. And he is! But if you are preveilaged enough to listen to a few of his ideas and arguements, you would agree with me that the world needs more people like him.

Mr.Tan 101:
-Apricotts
-Elephants
-Missions
-Reading ( books are the greatest friends cos they teach you selflessly and cant scold you if you neglect them for awhile)
-Children (tho they are kinda intimidated by him at times)
-Magic tricks ( to overcome the intimidation factor)
-Backpacking
-Perfect block writing (all round-round wan like donuts)
-Pork knuckels (tsk tsk)
-cooks with the simplest ingredients ( spagetti in duck sauce, spagetti in tomato sauce, spagetti in dark sauce)
-people watching ( he likes studying the characters of different people.Carefull, me and sis already become specimens)
-admires patience
-On talking (Only speak when your actions fail to convey your intentions. If you have nothing good to say, dont say it)
-On shopping ( Once the size fits, buy 5 of the same set.Need more variety? Buy 5 of the same set of different colours then)
-5 minutes rule ( if u spend more than 5 minutes infront of the mirror doing your hair, something is wrong witht the hair cut)
-10 minutes rule ( if you spend more than 10 minutes bathing, get a new shower head)
-15minutes rule ( if you spend more that 15 minutes on meals, you are wasting ur time)
-has 3 daughters who adore him.

Thats my dad, not the conventional kind of fathers but special nontheless.

Anyways Pa, you dont read my blog (at least i dont THINK you do, and scrolling back at my posts i hope you dont =P). But i think its time somebody celebrated your birthday because you HAVE done something to enrich the world when you gave up our time to help in missions, you HAVE said someting to help another life live better when you believed in your daughter,enough to help her gain her own confidence in herself.

Happy Birthday!

Flashback: There is only ONE SINGLE memory i have of him buying a birthday cake for his own birthday. We were still very young back then and my mom couldnt be home to celebrate his bday so Lesley and i were pretty bummed cos having so little birthdays of our own, we thot is was supposed to be a big thing that Pa was finally getting his birthday too. So we hintted and begged him to get a cake which turned out to be the size of a slightly larger muffin. And both of us wanted our pic taken with the birthday boy so Pa had to blow the candles out twice while short stubby fingers snapped blurry-sengeted photograhps. Aww....