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Saturday, January 19, 2008
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joash lee at 9:56 PM
Monday, January 14, 2008
Have you ever felt like you're such a failure in life, and everything can't be worse than it seems? Well, i've felt it. In fact, I'm feeling it. So many commitments, so much to do, and so little time. There's always a silver lining in every cloud. Man Utd thrashed Newcastle 6-0. It's the best news for the whole week, and that was Man Utd's bestest game so far. Glory Man Utd!
But i guess life's like that, always coming up with surprises. You can't expect everything to bo so smooth flowing right? I thought J1 was gonna be great. I mean, it's good so far, slacking and all. But somehow i feel that i can't connect with them y'know? And it doesn't help that there always aren't guys in my class. 08A05, 19 girls, 4 guys. Good? Think again. Last year was 15 girls, 6 guys. It gets worse every year. Why can't there be guys!!! Is Literature a girly subject!? NO! Now you know why i always treasure the times with volleyball guys and fairfield guys. BECAUSE THERE ARE NO GUYS IN MY SCHOOL TO HANG OUT WITH.
I'm just typing random stuff. Whatever that comes to my mind. Honestly, I haven't done any work since studying for Promos. It's been what, 3 months!? How? i don't know. Lessons have become so mundane that i don't know why i'm going to school. i don't know what i'm studying for. I just wanna be free from Singapore's oh-so-competitive education system. If you can't study, you're out. The elite is the norm. Ain't it true? Once you're near or below average, whee! You'll never make it anywhere. Even taxi drivers have to have an O level cert. What if the choo train students at the IB programme failed their exams? They'll have neither A nor O level certs. Can't even be taxi driver. I'm not aiming anyone here, just some random thoughts.
I wonder how high does Singapore wanna climb. It's just every man for himself, dog eat everything else world. Even to eat, must have qualifications. It's just so pressurizing. Oh, i bought new shoes today. Adidas Predito. New design, white, and it's cheap! 59 bucks. I have like no money now. Lol. I told you i'm random. And I played with Mark Tan's PSP the entire day. Virtua Tennis is so so fun. I climbed 200 ranks in a day. That's how much i played today. HAHA.
Everyone's following the 'must have certs' mentality. I really want to be different. But sometimes i just don't dare. You know how hard it is to be different from the rest? Of course you won't know, you've never tried. As said in Econs today, Singaporeans are risk avers. The blind leading the blind. Smart blinds too.
Remember in sec 3? My dream to be a chef. Why can't i pursue that? Now i'm heavily involved in sports, why can't i be a physiologist, because i'm really fascinated by the way our body works? I'm really into music too, I can play drums and guitar, why can't i form a band and go round on a world tour, spreading God's love through gigs and our songs? Why can't i do all? COS I HAVE TO SIT FOR STUPID A LEVELS WHICH IS SO DAMN HARD. COS "IF I DON'T HAVE A CERT, SOCIETY AIN'T GONNA ACCEPT ME."
just for the record, the song that david and i wrote, "Over and over again", won a prize in his church, in fact david won an acoustic guitar. We have the potential. just no time. It was an evangelistic song, that we wrote to appeal to the non-christians, so they could connect with the song. And when david played the song at an evangelistic event, they felt it, and lo and behold we won the prize.
Everyone's fighting for a place in the corporate world. They wanna go to work at 8am at Raffles Place, and come home at 530pm. I think to myself. What a boring and mundane thing. Of course this is my personal opinion lah. I could never do it. I hate routine. Even school's a chore for me. Okay, i'm quite tired already. So i wanna go and sleep soon. And i think i wrote enough. Think about what i've typed. Let those brains wreck. Take time to relax, don't follow the crowd.
But i guess life's like that, always coming up with surprises. You can't expect everything to bo so smooth flowing right? I thought J1 was gonna be great. I mean, it's good so far, slacking and all. But somehow i feel that i can't connect with them y'know? And it doesn't help that there always aren't guys in my class. 08A05, 19 girls, 4 guys. Good? Think again. Last year was 15 girls, 6 guys. It gets worse every year. Why can't there be guys!!! Is Literature a girly subject!? NO! Now you know why i always treasure the times with volleyball guys and fairfield guys. BECAUSE THERE ARE NO GUYS IN MY SCHOOL TO HANG OUT WITH.
I'm just typing random stuff. Whatever that comes to my mind. Honestly, I haven't done any work since studying for Promos. It's been what, 3 months!? How? i don't know. Lessons have become so mundane that i don't know why i'm going to school. i don't know what i'm studying for. I just wanna be free from Singapore's oh-so-competitive education system. If you can't study, you're out. The elite is the norm. Ain't it true? Once you're near or below average, whee! You'll never make it anywhere. Even taxi drivers have to have an O level cert. What if the choo train students at the IB programme failed their exams? They'll have neither A nor O level certs. Can't even be taxi driver. I'm not aiming anyone here, just some random thoughts.
I wonder how high does Singapore wanna climb. It's just every man for himself, dog eat everything else world. Even to eat, must have qualifications. It's just so pressurizing. Oh, i bought new shoes today. Adidas Predito. New design, white, and it's cheap! 59 bucks. I have like no money now. Lol. I told you i'm random. And I played with Mark Tan's PSP the entire day. Virtua Tennis is so so fun. I climbed 200 ranks in a day. That's how much i played today. HAHA.
Everyone's following the 'must have certs' mentality. I really want to be different. But sometimes i just don't dare. You know how hard it is to be different from the rest? Of course you won't know, you've never tried. As said in Econs today, Singaporeans are risk avers. The blind leading the blind. Smart blinds too.
Remember in sec 3? My dream to be a chef. Why can't i pursue that? Now i'm heavily involved in sports, why can't i be a physiologist, because i'm really fascinated by the way our body works? I'm really into music too, I can play drums and guitar, why can't i form a band and go round on a world tour, spreading God's love through gigs and our songs? Why can't i do all? COS I HAVE TO SIT FOR STUPID A LEVELS WHICH IS SO DAMN HARD. COS "IF I DON'T HAVE A CERT, SOCIETY AIN'T GONNA ACCEPT ME."
just for the record, the song that david and i wrote, "Over and over again", won a prize in his church, in fact david won an acoustic guitar. We have the potential. just no time. It was an evangelistic song, that we wrote to appeal to the non-christians, so they could connect with the song. And when david played the song at an evangelistic event, they felt it, and lo and behold we won the prize.
Everyone's fighting for a place in the corporate world. They wanna go to work at 8am at Raffles Place, and come home at 530pm. I think to myself. What a boring and mundane thing. Of course this is my personal opinion lah. I could never do it. I hate routine. Even school's a chore for me. Okay, i'm quite tired already. So i wanna go and sleep soon. And i think i wrote enough. Think about what i've typed. Let those brains wreck. Take time to relax, don't follow the crowd.
joash lee at 9:27 PM
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
You walk into school along with all the other new J1s. You go to the parade square and stand in line for assembly. A special section of the parade square is "cordoned" off, for the 'senior J1s', that is, you. Stares come in from all angles, J1s, J2s, everyone but your fellow retainees. How am i ever going to survive this year like that? You think to yourself. After which you join your class for attendance taking, and you are accompanied by friends who retained with you. The whole J1 cohort stares as if you're from outer space. But deep inside, you know what they're thinking. How can anyone be so dumb to retain J1? As if replying them, you think to yourself, wait till you newbies go through the curriculum, then you'll know. With the judgmental looks on everyone's faces, you decide to act like a gangster, to make everyone scared of you. Surprisingly it works, and you are in your element, because you can really act like one. This year is gonna be tough, with the new people and all, but you know you have to do this otherwise you'll regret it for life.. And one thing that keeps you going is knowing that God is on your side, and no one else can be against Him, the Almighty.
God is on our side,
who can be against us?
God is on our side,
we won't be afraid.
Though the mountains may fall
and the skies will tremble,
but ain't nothin's gonna stand in our way!
God is on our side,
who can be against us?
God is on our side,
we won't be afraid.
Though the mountains may fall
and the skies will tremble,
but ain't nothin's gonna stand in our way!
joash lee at 11:41 PM
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
GUYS. I'm so so sorry for not replying any of the tags or blogging for so darn long. It's just that i wasn't in the mood. HAHA.
Anyway, i just wanted to share what God taught me during the watchnight service. Pastor Lynette gave us a few moments to think about the year, and just reflect, while Pastor Kow allowed us to think about 2008 and what we expected. As i thought about the future, all the flashbacks of piling projects and overdue assignments just came rushing through my head. I felt so retardedly stressed just thinking about it. Then suddenly out of nowhere came this small still voice saying, "My dear, 2008 will be full of challenges, just like the past year. People will hate you, you will have to sacrifice many things for me. Trials will come, temptations will arise, problems will be faced, you will be overwhelmed, BUT I PROMISE I'LL BE THERE WITH YOU, EVERY SINGLE STEP OF THE WAY. I WILL SOAR WITH YOU ABOVE THE STORM. WE'LL OVERCOME ANYTHING, IF YOU TRUST IN ME."
I mean, how cool is that! When i heard that, i almost cried my heart out. It's like somebody loves me so so much. I've never felt that way in a really really long time. it's just so nice, warm and cosy to hear these kind of things from God.
Well, my first test came on the first day of the new year. 1st Jan 2008. I was quite bummed about not going anywhere after the watchnight service, i kinda sulked, and followed my parents back home. So i just went home, watched a bit of tv, and slept. woke up with my mom shouting at me to wake up. like it was the end of the world. we went to my grandma's house for lunch, and apparently their tap was leaking so my dad had to help them repair the whole thing, and it took quite a while. I was kinda impatient, but was humoured by a funny chinese tv comedy. we were supposed to go to orchard to shop, my family, just went there a lil' late.
when we reached, my brother threw his temper around, requesting to go home cos he didn't sleep the whole night(playing cards at friend's house), and he scolded my dad. I was so unhappy about the whole incident, i thought we could go like dinner as a family, but he had to ruin it. well i guess friends before family. I became so so reluctant to follow my parents that i got angry with them too. It was the worst start to the new year. but, years aren't defined by a single day, are they? i guess not, so what i've learnt is that i've learnt to move along, and not live in the past. just be happy everyday, living fully for GOD.
Anyway, i just wanted to share what God taught me during the watchnight service. Pastor Lynette gave us a few moments to think about the year, and just reflect, while Pastor Kow allowed us to think about 2008 and what we expected. As i thought about the future, all the flashbacks of piling projects and overdue assignments just came rushing through my head. I felt so retardedly stressed just thinking about it. Then suddenly out of nowhere came this small still voice saying, "My dear, 2008 will be full of challenges, just like the past year. People will hate you, you will have to sacrifice many things for me. Trials will come, temptations will arise, problems will be faced, you will be overwhelmed, BUT I PROMISE I'LL BE THERE WITH YOU, EVERY SINGLE STEP OF THE WAY. I WILL SOAR WITH YOU ABOVE THE STORM. WE'LL OVERCOME ANYTHING, IF YOU TRUST IN ME."
I mean, how cool is that! When i heard that, i almost cried my heart out. It's like somebody loves me so so much. I've never felt that way in a really really long time. it's just so nice, warm and cosy to hear these kind of things from God.
Well, my first test came on the first day of the new year. 1st Jan 2008. I was quite bummed about not going anywhere after the watchnight service, i kinda sulked, and followed my parents back home. So i just went home, watched a bit of tv, and slept. woke up with my mom shouting at me to wake up. like it was the end of the world. we went to my grandma's house for lunch, and apparently their tap was leaking so my dad had to help them repair the whole thing, and it took quite a while. I was kinda impatient, but was humoured by a funny chinese tv comedy. we were supposed to go to orchard to shop, my family, just went there a lil' late.
when we reached, my brother threw his temper around, requesting to go home cos he didn't sleep the whole night(playing cards at friend's house), and he scolded my dad. I was so unhappy about the whole incident, i thought we could go like dinner as a family, but he had to ruin it. well i guess friends before family. I became so so reluctant to follow my parents that i got angry with them too. It was the worst start to the new year. but, years aren't defined by a single day, are they? i guess not, so what i've learnt is that i've learnt to move along, and not live in the past. just be happy everyday, living fully for GOD.
joash lee at 9:15 PM