Freedom!!!!!!!!!

Finally free for the year!! Wait...the year ends tomorrow =.=

Oh well...Finally free for the last two days of the year!!
I finally finished all my schoolwork which means: PARTY! Actually I don't think I'll party but still...no more school

Wait...
No more school?
All my nine years of education is over??
Oh well =)

Bye to homeschooling, hi to college life.
Can't wait...

It's quite cool to say that now, but I'm probably gonna start missing the quiet life of homeschooling.    

Farewell to the self-monitoring life and hello to classroom situations...0_o

I shall take a moment to remember the best of my school life...
Okay done with that...back to the celebrating xD

It's Only Reuben

What is that suppose to mean?

It's ONLY Reuben--he doesn't mind getting pushed around?
It's ONLY Reuben--you can tease him, he wouldn't react?
It's ONLY Reuben--you can take advantage of him, he won't fight back?
It's ONLY Reuben--you can bully him, he'll take it in?

Let me tell you something, ever heard that when a dog is pushed into a corner, he bites back?
Sure I can take a joke at my expense, but there's a line--a limit!

I didn't react then because I was afraid--I was in shock.  It was expected of you, but I never expected myself to be the end of your rage.  But I'll be ready when you come again, I made a mistake by letting you think I can be the object of your torments, and now you've taken a mile from the inch I gave you.  I don't know what it will be, but I know whatever that comes from you will be bad--will be some form of abuse.

Cross me once,

I take it as chance.

Cross me twice,

I know you aren't nice.

Cross me thrice,

I'll give you a surprise.

I know it's not a very positive post, but I have to let it out, or else it will eat me up until all I can think about is revenge.  I already been up late at night because all I could think of was to get back at him.  I can't sleep without thinking about ways to bring you down, but I won't--not that I am a coward--when I put you in your place, it'll only be because you striked me a third time.

I hope the next time I see you, you won't cross me.  I hope that twice will be your final number, and I won't need to spoil my image as a mild-mannered person.  But that doesn't mean that I won't.

A dog will bite when it's pushed to a corner, and I will fight when I'm pushed to a corner.

Avatar: Movie of the Year

Watched it yesterday.

One of the most secretive movie of 2009, knocked out the other movies flat.  Nothing this original ever happened since the Quest For Camelot.  The plot was not only exciting but also had a hidden meaning.  The story was kind of something like Lord of The Rings--having to do with the destruction of the world.  If you see the Na'vi (The blue people) as the American Indians and the humans as the...the...humans, you have yourself a case of: White men and their thirst for riches would do anything to get rich even if it means killing off a race of people...e.g. Cortez and the Aztecs.

'Somehow' the hero of this movie just had to have a twin that so 'conveniently' died so the hero had to replace his brother due to the almost identical DNA.  Reminds me of Eagle Eye.

But one word for Avatar: Wow.
Another word for Avatar: Breathtaking.

Rumors of this movie came out around the beginning of this year.  The title was known ever since January, the trailer came out only months from the release, but nothing much was known about what the movie was about.  Now I understand--it was a movie worth the secrecy.

When I watched it, I got a stomachache--the type of stomachache you get when you play too much COD4.  Avatar was that real.  You felt like you were on Pandora.

The animation beat Transformers FLAT...let me rephrase that: Transformer's animation did not come close to the realism in Avatar.  Most of the movie was animated but you would only notice it if you know that none of those plants and animals exist.        

Before Avatar, I would say the best movie of this year was Up.  Now Up is number two.

Avatar is a must watch. 

Christmas..

I don't know whether it is just me, or was Christmas rather dull this year?

I'm not sure why, but it felt as if people were celebrating for the sake of celebrating.  Just put on a plastic smile and grin at them and they'll think we are happy and merry. 


Well, my Christmas felt that way...though I tried to be happy and merry.  I'm not saying everyone had a plastic smile, some people I met had a genuine laughter and excitement for Christmas.

This was my Christmas...

Christmas Eve

Went to Uncle Alfred's and Auntie Monique's house to celebrate.  As usual, there was good food and...

Sprite, 100Plus, and 7up...(Smart People would understand what that is.)

Another view of the awesome drink.

Then I had a two cans of...

Hey, it's only 1% alcohol AND I was under parental supervision so no damage was done.

Other than that, there was lamb, beef, turkey, prawns, and chicken.

YUM YUM YUM

Christmas Day

Went to church early to play drums for the service. I took my beanie (My present from my sister) with me--People kept on commenting about my hair.  But I like my hair now--it's awesomely different.  The performance was breath-taking.  The 'Heritage Singers' performed almost perfect for having only months to prepare.  After service was kind of the highlight of the day--when people start giving presents.

At night my parents did a little barbecue.  It was a crowd just small enough to have fun. 

Post-Christmas

IM:Pact's Christmas went rather well.  I wasn't around for half of it because I was out buying food with Leon, so I didn't know how well it went.  I think Alycia did well as an MC... By the time Leon and I came back with the food, everything was finished and everyone was coming out to eat.  After that it was free time...

So that was my Christmas.  Nothing to shout about, but I feel t was just fun and serious enough.

I'm not so sad because I got presents xD

From Zhi Ling:

My thumbdrive back and the pictures from VBS and the Form 4 outing plus...

A card with this hand-stitched book-mark inside!

From Sheng-En:

 

A wacko Key Jacket!

From Kimberly:

...Not really sure what it's for...but yay!

                                      

I also got the Manga Mutiny...It's the Manga Version of Genesis, A beanie, and love letters.

Tonight would be the last Christmas gig.

Thursday would be watchnight and our 'FORM FOUR's FINAL FLING'!

Can't wait =)

December Twenty-fifth

Everyday year on twenty-fifth december,

You hear a cheer you will remember.

Joyful faces will be seen all around;

Cheerful noises and happy sounds.

But how did this festival begin?

It started with a man who conquered sin.

Two thousand years ago, or more I was told,

In the time of the Romans of old.

At that time, in a town called Bethlehem,

Was born a boy who was to be the promised lamb.

Born in a manger 'cause there was no more room,

Was a humble beginning for the one who'l end doom.

This was the first Christmas,

It began with a man who came to save us.

He arrived as a humble baby boy,

The son of God, His pride and joy,

To bring salvation to the world,

For every man, woman, boy, and girl.

-END

I wrote this poem last year, but didn't have a blog then.  It's a basic poem but I hope you enjoy it.

pioneer.blogspot.com

Who on planet earth took that URL?

Sure I can forgive you if you at least post on it.  It would have been an awesome blog; it had an awesome URL to begin with.  So your name is David and all you ever posted was two post.  Both of which aren't even worth posting.  Such a waste.

Well, I can give you credit for something: You picked the best URL.

I forgive you, whoever you are.

In other news, Christmas and new years is coming up.  Can't wait for 2010 to come yet don't want for 2009 to end.

A vey fine 2009

...2009 has been...

...great...

...challenging...

...new...

...awesome...

...different...

...fun...

...lonely...

...life changing...

...exciting...

...though...

In other words, 2009 has been everything a year should be full of, and more.  I met tons of new people, accomplished many things, and feel that I have made progress in my life.

Tons of things happened many wonderful things but as Newtons Third law goes, there were regrets as well.

I have learnt many lessons this year--like setting a priority in the things I do.  I learnt this when I left the YKLS to focus on my studies.  Another lesson learnt is patience.  I learnt this from my drum students Zhi Yaow and Elliot.  They have taught me to be more tolerant than I have ever been.  Another way that I have learnt patience is from my father and his reluctance in allowing me to have Facebook.  I have been persistently asking but to no effect.  So I wrote a point form essay about why I should have Facebook.  Hopefully he'll give me an answer soon.

Things that I accomplished this year:

1. Performing for the KLPac Open Day
2. Performing in the Australian Month
3. Organizing the Live On Stage
4. Writing PJEFC's Easter Production: Hope In Hopelessness.
5. Taking my SAT's and scoring 1600+ points
6. Getting a distinction on my Grade 8 drum exam
7. Finishing all the work needed to go to college next year
8. Taking part in the HELP Psychology Challenge 2009
9. Getting the SASA scholarship
10. Helping out in VBS
11. Planning camp

I had awesome times with every experience...there are more but they have somehow slipped my mind

(not that it's not important).  I met a few good friends this year and improved my relationship with others.

New year posts are not only about remembering the year but about moving on.  Sure mistakes were made, things that were not suppose to be done were done, but it's time to carry on the race; it's time to release the burdens of 2009.

Letting go the past does not mean we forget about it, we need to learn from the past in order to move on.

This year has been an awesome year, but still it is not the end.
I will never stop pioneering my future.  

Back to Basics

It was the fastest camp I ever attended.  Partly maybe because I was part of the planning committee, but still it past in a flash--the third day felt like the second.  I know people signed up without much expectation, with it being in church and all, but, my, were they shocked.

Day One.

Tuesday

Day one, for me, started at 11:00.  Pastor Aaron prayed for the whole committee, and we were off to organize our things.  People started arriving way before 1p.m. I went down with Weili to get food before we opened registration.  When we opened registration, it was a non-stop process of registration.  The flood of campers almost over-whelmed us as we rushed to give them their name-tags and register them.  The briefing followed and we were set into our teams to decide our names--there were six teams, I, M, P, A, C, and T.  In the end, this were the names we came up with:

I = In
M =M.A.D. Munchkins
P = Pi (As in 3.142....)
A = Aku Amat Awesome (or A cube)
C = Chun-ted (My team)
T = Too Pro Too Furious

Chun-ted won the first game for the most creative name and cheer.  Later on there was a game of Mikasa (A game of volleyball with varying rules), followed by dinner, and a session by Ps. Aaron.  After that we went and did what we wanted 'til Lights Out.  I made it a point to my dorm-mates that our dorm would be the cleanest and the best.  So we all trusted each other and slept knowing that there will be no pranking among ourselves.

But in the morning......

If anyone had trouble sleeping, the sight in the morning sure made them smile.  I woke up to attend prayer meeting...but my slippers were missing, so I went barefoot to the toilet to wash up, but I heard shouts coming from the girl's dorm.  I went there and saw what the people in charge of security were up to.  They used our slippers to make a super big smiley.

Day Two.

Wednesday

It started off great thanks to Tian Xi, Joshua Lim, Joseph Lim, Sam Lim and all those guys who made the smiley.  It got alot of people to attend the prayer meeting.  I went off at 11 cos I had an appointment with Dr. Goh--not the doctor as in the guy with the medicine, but as in a psychologist, the Dean of  Psychology at HELP in fact. Chun-ted won the Captain Twister game, but got second on the treasure hunt.-go team!

That night the dorm two doors from mine got 'punked'.  The 'security people' budged into the door and said that they heard that someone in that dorm had brought cards.  It was a trick.  It was funny when it was told but I kinda pity those in the dorm.

Day Three.

Thursday

It felt like the first day.  I woke up and went for the prayer not many people made it.  My team felt defeat for the first time at volleyball.  The session and all that were interesting.  We had lots of fun, coming up with our skit for the talentime.

 

This is not the best pic...the best are with Jason and his camera (Jason, I want those pics!)

We like posed behind him and Jason took the pics.

Career Night!

See me?

I'm the guy with a wrapped up face.  I went to camp as a professional beggar.  The food was awesome and all and Chun-ted scored the best guy and best girl dress-up.

We had a special performance by Tian Xi and Friends.  Click to view their version of I'm Yours.

Talentime.

It was awesome but quite long to put here so to put it the shortest way, it was entertaining.  We saw the hidden talent inside many of the campers and it was a funny and interesting time.

Prank.

At night around 1am Joshua Lim entered my dorm and put shaving cream on my face.  I woke up round 1:30am and wiped it off with my beggar shirt.  You would think that Josh would have the satisfaction of catching me off guard, but no, he decided to have a round two.  He came in again, but I was already awake.  I stared at him but it was too dark for him to see me.  I waited until he was very near to me before I snapped my fingers in front of his face.  He sweared and ran away.

LOL.

Day Four.

Friday

It was Friday before we even knew it.

The most remarkable thing about Friday was the afternoon worship.  Alycia moved with the prompting of the spirit and I believe many lives were touched.  After that some went to watch Up while a bunch of us went up stairs to play volleyball (The real game).

Next there was games.

We were given a watermelon per team.  We were meant to dress it up and it was going to be our team 'baby'.

This is Orange

Chun-ted's Baby

When we were done introducing them to IMpact, Jeremy told us part two of the game.  We were given chopsticks and spoons and were told that we were too eat the watermelons.  We were to be cannibals.  Chun-ted got second place.  Now Orange will be a part of us.

That night Jeremy announced that there was no curfew, and the camp went berserk.  Arm wrestling competitions were done for the first few hours then groups broke apart to talk and sing.  There were three singing groups and more talking groups.  The night was filled with pranking, but I was safe.  I decided that I would not prank Josh Lim back for pranking me.  I have to keep my 'good boy' image.  Anyways what goes around comes around.

Day Five.

Saturday

I heard the last person sleep at around 8am.  I woke up late at 9:45am and rushed to eat breakfast.  It finished so fast and before we knew it, it was time to go home.  Sad.

That was it camp was over.

During this camp I met new friends, learnt new things from David, and felt the presence of God throughout.  I memorized every camper's names though they might not know me.

Thanks to the camp committee: Jeff, Jeremy, Kay Jen, Eirene, Joseph, Shin Lin, Rayshell, Weili, Adrian, Han Jiang, Emily, and D.E.L.

Thanks to those who stayed back to clean up.

Thanks to the twelve year olds for enjoying this camp--especially Sheng En, who calls me a bully even though I'm not, and Ming Han, for always reading my clues before me.

Now camp is over and I continue to pray that this fire will never die, this will not be a momentary high.  

24'ish hours 'til camp

So let's see...what's so important?

CAMP IS GONNA START!!!!!!


I'm not sure whether I'm happy, nervous, or both.  It has been awesome being in the committee, forging new friendships with them, and experiencing God's faithfulness through it all.

I learnt many things planning camp.  Some of them are serious stuff which you will never forget and some of them are totally cool random facts.

Here's a bunch of things I've learnt about each person from the com.

Weili has an ego problem.  She has to do things herself, like a phone game for instance.
Joseph loves vacuum cleaners...he was the only one who ever used Clifford so far.
Han Jiang can be serious when needed.  Like today for instance.
Rayshell is talkative when it's NOT a meeting.
Shin Lin is talkative when it's NOT a meeting...well at least she talks more than Rayshell.
Adrian gets things done.
Though the world was against him, Jeremy pulled through as an awesome camp commandant.
Emily may be quiet, but when she speaks, there's a reason behind it.
Kay Jen likes being special...like her name tag
Eirene is a peace keeper.
Jeff.........enough said.

I won't post anything until the nineteenth or twentieth it'll probably be about the awesome time I had in camp.

To end:
SENDER:REUBEN:
Hey, I'm not on Facebook.*

-The Professional Begger-*

*Those who go to camp will understand

When Push Comes to Shove

Every man has his limits,

Though varied they may be.

Some know their limit,

Some have yet to see.

When a task is taken,

No matter how big or small,

Each one should know their limit,

And not handle it all.

'Cos when push comes to shove,

We see what we're made off,

Whether we flew or we dove,

Whether we spoke or we were soft.

I hope we find our limit

Before we break down,

Or walk around just wearing

A low and shameful crown.

God gave us friends,

Who are there to aid,

They don't ask for anything,

They don't care if their paid.

All they want to see

Is their friend running and well

And see him opened from

His dark and quiet shell.

When responsibility calls,

And you except the task,

Please remember your friends,

All you need is ask.

They don't want to see you fall,

They don't want to see you small,

They don't want to see you loose it all,

Just reach out your hand and call

They don't want to see you break,

They don't want to see you ache,

They don't want to see you sick,

Just reach out your hand and take.

They don't want to see you fail,

They don't want to see you pail,

They don't want to lose, for real,

Just reach out your hand and sail.

Call for them,

Take their hand,

Sail with them,

Across the pain.

Across the burdens and the rain.

When push comes to shove,

Remember your friends,

Don't hide in a cove,

And take it in 'til the end

Dedicated to:

IM:Pact camp 2009, Mainly the committee =)

15th-19th December

2 days time!

Not A Momentary High

I pray that this camp

Will not be a momentary high,

But will be a lasting lamp

That will light up the sky.

That everyone's life

Though young they may be,

Will be forever touched by

The Lord, God Almighty.

Not a momentary high

That reaches to the sky,

But fades away in time.

Lord, Let this camp be

A long-lasting impression

Not because of me,

Or my decision,

But let it come from you,

Whose promises stay true.

A heritage for tomorrow,

A promise that isn't hollow,

Not a momentary high

That will put a tear in Your eye.

I pray that in this camp

Your presence will be felt

Like the waters so damp

That in Your grace we will melt.

Dedicated to:
IM:Pact Camp 2009: Back to Basics
15th-19th December
five days time!

  

Wedding at J.W. Marriott

Went to a wedding today so had to miss church and skip the camp briefing...in the J.W.Marriott.  The wedding started at 11:00 a.m., and ended by 11:20a.m. a very fast wedding.  The buffet was awesome!

    Terry and Christine: The Couple

The best was seafood vol-au-vent...Julian teach me that recipe!!  Looks delicious?

Then there were awesome bread sticks!! Hehe xD

Other than that, the food was good.

PIKOM PC Fair

It was surprisingly empty for a first day.  Don't know why so little people went...is there a recession coming?  I hope not...anyways.

Random Pix...awesome way to advertise.

I had only one purpose for going to the PC fair--my external DVD drive.  The first floor brought my hopes down.  I couldn't find any anywhere...until:  Now I'm satisfied until some other gadget I need for my notebook pops up...like that multiply USB ports thingy.