the other day i was saying if there was someone posting that fender richie kotzen signature telecaster for sale, its an obvious sign that im meant to buy it. haha okay i only said it cause i really liked it and it seems like hardly anyone in singapore has it, much less would sell it. and then lo-and-behold, some guy posted it up to sell just a min before!! he priced it at 1.9k though(first hand's around 2.4k).

obviously i didnt buy it cause im really careful and cautious with my spendings since im really responsible with my money, so only when he priced it at 1.5k, did i jumped at it!

so here you go, my latest and 5th guitar, a fender richie kotzen signature telecaster!!



i doubt i would ever sell this, but i still intend to sell my fender lite ash telecaster though. any takers?

anyway i took my sister to watch night in the museum 2 on sunday. haha really embarrassing cause the stupid counter didnt accept nets and i had spend almost every dollar in my wallet. so my sis ended up having to contribute $5 to (her own) tickets, and was lecturing me infront of the cashier girl how disastrous it would have been if i had taken a girl out instead of her. i swear she has the least tact when it comes to embarrassing me.

and i totally forgot about the existence of children tickets, and ended up buying two adult ones instead. but okay well, the show was erm.. okay? didnt watch the first one though so cant really compare. oh well. it seems like hardly anything's really reaching out to me except the in-camp training for one of my brigades in 3 weeks time. so so many things to settle its literally squeezing the life outta me.

"take a look at yourself in the mirror, who do you see looking back? is it the person you wanna be? or is there someone else you were meant to be, the person you should've been, but fell short of.

is someone telling you you can't or you won't? cause you can. believe that love is out there. believe that dreams come true everyday, because they do.

sometimes happiness doesn't come from money, or fame, or power. sometimes happiness comes from good friends and family, and from the quiet nobility of leading a good life.

believe that dreams come true everyday, because they do. so take a look in that mirror and remind yourself to be happy, because you deserve to be. believe that. and believe that dreams come true everyday." - One Tree Hill.

there you have it another season finale. i think this quote's rather thought provoking though. like how we always try to attempt to be what God created us to, always trying to reach our fullest capacity. and in doing so we take a hiatus and reality check, wondering the worth of what we're chasing and devoting our lives to.

oh God i don't wanna get lost in the chase, remind me of what Who i'm living for.

seems like there's scientific evidence for speaking in tongues after all. quite an interested read actually.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/07/health/07brain.html

yeah i know i didnt link it, my blog seems to have issues!

i just watched the last episode of prison break. no not season finale but series finale. okay i shan't post any spoilers here but it's really quite sad the series ended. it actually has wit to it? oh well.

and one tree hill better not end anytime soon.

apparently a little boy staying in my condo(only one block)got lured/forced into the swimming pool toilet and got molested by some grown man today. the police came and all but are without suspects or even knowledge if the molester is someone from our condo.

seriously!!? could a man be anymore deprived?

that's it. i'm grounding my sis. no going downstairs alone anymore.

take a good look around you
and i'm sure that you are bound to
think that all you have comes down to you and what you've done
if you look far beyond this
there's a life i hope you don't miss
what has kept you from moving on
is learning to let go

and there's so much more, than what you're looking for.

caught up in yourself
call it like it is
well, you're so good
but who is ever good enough?

you think if you surrender
it's the end, but just remember,
life is more than dying embers
burning in your soul

and i know it's true
cause i am just like you

Thank God for mercy
Thank God for His grace
Thank God for everything you've got
before it's too late

and there's so much more
than what you're looking for

and there's so much more
than what we're fighting for, dad.

today's kinda a really unfriendly day. or so it seems that everyone's so edgy today. i witness something really disconsolate and sad(i lack a better word)on the bus after service to serangoon. okay basically the bus was rather packed and crowded so most people had to like squeeze and weave in and out to get to the doors and seats.

so basically there was this lady who alighted from her seat next to the window, leaving this girl of around tertiary age siting on the 2-seater seat alone on the outer side. of course now the seat beside her was empty. well yeah i suppose she should have moved in so that people could take the outer seat in the name of convenience. but of course she didnt and she continued using her phone oblivious to the packed bus.

then here comes this 60+ chinese man with his grand-daughter(probably like primary 2?) who looked really pissed as he approached the empty seat. so he gestured that he wanted to sit down so the girl shifts in so he could conveniently have the outer seat. and guess what? he starts his onslaught of profanities directed at the girl. first of all he starts by going like, "why, young people these days, are bloody selfish. one person takes two seats, when everyone else has to squeeze on the bus." of course he says it loud enough to embarrass the girl.

fine well maybe he's old and weathered the storms. maybe he had a bad day and the heat of the day made him really agitated. no excuse for he did after though. THEN, he goes on and calls her a "bitch", "bastard", "hooligan", "idiot" and other really offensive words, structuring his sentences like "only a _____ would take up two seats when the bus is so crowded!" all this time the girl beside him kept mum and carried on using her phone, probably overwhelmed by guilt and embarrassment, or perhaps out of respect for the elderly man. and she started crying after sometime but the man just kept going on and on.

you know what really pains me? was how he used his grand-daughter as an excuse for his baggage of insults. cause all these while he wasnt scolding the girl directly, but passing those offensive statements hinting at the girl in a pretense of a conversation or "big wise granddad advice" his grand-daughter. he was telling his lower pri kid stuff like, "you know what a bastard is!? its someone who hogs two seats in a crowded bus! that's a bastard."

i felt terribly sorry for the little girl, who ended up tearing probably in embarrassment of the whole bus looking at them. and he just yaked and yaked and went on and on teaching her what a "bastard" and "bitch" is.

and nicholas who was sitting in a seat infront of the man and girl couldnt take it anymore and turned around and tried to reason with the man. only to cause him to become more agitated (or perhaps happy that actually someone was entertaining his bickering) so he raised his voice and profanities even louder. the two girls were like totally embarrassed at this point in time. and yeah well the old man just couldnt seem to see reason. jiehui then stepped in tried to calm things down, and reasoned with the old man in mandarin, which helped actually. he was saying like how he doesnt have to raise his voice and in doing so scare his grand-daughter and stuff.

basically it ended with the girl alighting, closing the floodgates of nonsense. ah seriously, why do these old folks have to create such a fuss. i mean sure you wanna make a point but cant you do it with some respect for others and yourself, and not go ahead and degrade someone and hurt your own grandkid just out of selfish pride and arrogance.

right i shouldnt go on this is really frustrating.





yeah anyway i finally played soccer with my sec sch friends, people whom i used to hang around with every single day in sch. it was like a bunch of random people bonded together by the same love for soccer. FINALLY got to play together again after like 4 over years?? had a good time catching up about the silly things we did and talking about our team. who used to play at which position and what he was doing on in his life.


okay i realised we dont even have a proper picture, this old one would be the closest to it.

haha but those jokers almost got into a fight with some vietnamese people. some things just never seem to change.. and i met this guy who looked really familiar. some random guy who's been playing soccer at the court EVERY NIGHT since our lower sec days. haha that's like some 6-7 yrs. yeah and he too almost fought with one of the vietnamese men.

ahh right. quite an unpleasant day but i thought service was rather refreshing. worship was good, not so much in terms of music but more in terms of spirit.

God, come heal a world so broken.

"worship and the pursuit of justice actually have to work together for them to have integrity. the one cannot and should not be done healthily unless the other one is side be side. its what makes the church a church; the church is not worshipping if justice is not part of the church."

"people aren't so different as we think. cultures are different but people aren't so different. every soul has the same need and every person wants to feel valued, loved, significant, and have dignity."