Fly My Shining Dragon Knight

OMG! OMG! OMG!
FYP (Final Year Project) is finally over!
All of a sudden, the positive stress and the mass of things to do are all gone.
A huge burden feels like it has vanished and that leaves me feeling very lost of what to do.

The presentation was swift and smooth this time.
There wasn't any difficult questions that we were unable to answer.
But perhaps I kept too quiet during the 2nd assessor session.
I forgot to bring my log book... (Its like the passport to FYP)
It wasn't until they asked to check the books that I discovered I forgot it.
THANK GOD! My teammate actually brought the lab logbooks, the common book where all the data went into before getting copied over into our individual books.
I used the common log book (Which actually belonged to me)The assessor liked my book!
Praise God for saving me!!!

But suddenly its over, my last understanding test is on Monday.
After which, there isn't any big events anymore.
We are graduating soon.
It kinda gives me a happy/sad feeling.
I'm going to miss RP.

At least now I've got time to go exercise to pass my Napfa.
All the best to my fellow classmates and polymates!

Dear Bloggy,

It's been absolute ages since I blogged. The reason is due to extreme time constrain. Ever since I started exercising, there has been little or no time to blog at all.

 

With a full five day week, extensive projects like

• Driving lessons (Revision lessons now)
• Final Year Project (Report writing due ASAP)
• Gaming.RP Open House Marshal Duty (Game Judge, Baby!)
• Napfa (OMG, I really need to pass!)
• Outings with Princess Garnet (Oh dear, cannot neglect sial)
• Outings with Friends (SY, SQ) Gaming time

Just absorb all the time I have.

 

I'm updating today, to tell how crappy things can get in the morning. For 2 consecutive weeks, the bus I ride to school has constantly broke down. What luck.

Last week, 28.11.07, Bus & Car tried squeezing into a merging lane, Car ended up loosing wing mirror to bus. Car driver ran over and delayed the bus, complaining with huge hand gestures and bad attitude. Kept the bus for 20mins.

This week, 05.12.07, Bus tire ruptured, leaving bus severely one sided. Stopped at the bus stop before the highway, where the bus is usually full... Dam...

Either way, I still make it to school on time! Thank God! That's all for today's rant. Enjoy the 2 Videos

 

 

A Little Personality Test sent to me by my princess.

I'm just thankful to God for the entire week.
Just as my brother Chris said, TGIF (Thank God, It's Friday)
He has led me throughout the entire week unscathed.
3 Understanding Tests, 2 Napfa Training Sessions, 1 Jog with my best friend SQ in the time frame of a single week.

Gosh, You can tell that I'm definitely tired. But who isn't?
Today, it was during my 2nd Training session this week that I was asking for help.
I had just run round my school, approx 1.5km and going to my second round, knowing that I wasn't really fit and I was really getting tired and if I stopped I would have failed. I asked God, help me!

Somehow, the run became alot easier, I was still huffing and puffing, but I was overcome with the sense of peace that God was running with me, letting me know he was bigger than all of my problems, my battles, my accomplishments.

1Sam17:47 All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORD's, and he will give all of you into our hands."

Just as when David fought Goliath, David realized that the battle was the Lord's and not his, nor Saul, nor anyone else. It was then, Victory was given to David.
The end of the day, I completed 2 rounds (3km) with his help, and went on to try all the other stations, I'm still having trouble with the Pull-ups and Broad Jump, but something tells me, that if I trust in the Lord, I've nothing to fear.

After a long absence of a week, the Jeneral Returns!

This week, we had Structural Bio on Tues that's being taught by a very interesting facilitator. He is a doctor actually and I wouldn't be surprised that he probably wrote a few Biochemistry textbooks. Considering the fact that he kept asking us to refer to biochemistry textbooks to solve the problem that day.

I just took another driving lesson yesterday, learning how to parallel park was quite tedious, but probably still quite alright, except for the point that I kept over-steering. Next week shall be the Review!



A visit to the Esplanade on Wed, the city skyline was really quite beautiful, Garnet and myself managed to get a picture or 2 taken against the skyline. We changed our power-card to a Gold card, only to find out we needed to top up $20 extra to have a free game a day...

Going for NAPFA Training later...
Smiles...

NAFA is coming in exactly 1 month's time. However, my name is not among those being tested! Whee!

I went to gym the previous evening with SQ and as a result my entire bodying is aching. Now to imagine Ps Khong (50+ years old) who goes to gym 3 times a week and training his body to fatigue.

Now that is something I admire!

Bwah haha.

I've just had a interesting and exciting weekend. To top the weekend off, School starts today!

I had it easy on Saturday. My dad was rather upset that I've been out the entire week, either at school or going out with friends and late nights back due to chalets. So my dad banned me from going out on the Saturday itself.

Somehow, with some luck my dad allowed me out for the evening to go meet my Secondary School pal Tiong Li. We had ice cream and a short walk around town before going back home. The evening was enjoyable to be able to talk and catch up on old & new times.

 

Sunday's service, Tiong came along to visit FCBC. Happy that he was able to have a first hand experience at church. Service was talking about the Hedge of protection upon each and everyone of us. That we had to choose to be under the guardian angel and live in the community of God.

Next time, no more Charlie's Angels

It's JeNeRaL's Angels!

 

Today, the start of a new semester. Cell Cycle and Oncology, Cells & Cancer! Quite an interesting module. School seemed very much crowded today, almost like orchard road or Suntec city on a weekday. So many students all over the place. Gym after sch. Tired!

Even as I type this super late night post, I'm just glad that over the past 3 days I was at the Gateway Cities Youth Conference (GCYC) 2007.

The first day started on Thursday evening.
The Last day of School Hooray!
We had pot luck in class and was happily eating.
Everyone said Mum's Apple Pie was really good.
After that it was hell break loose as we started DOTA + CS.
Fiz got scolded by Tsing, Mai and myself for suggesting work, the reason was that we had 16 weeks to do work, 80 lessons to do work and he had to choose the last lesson to work.

Oh, I went for the 1st night of conference and yeah, It was good, listening to a recap of our church Goal for the the year. I fed the remainder of the apple pie to Shaun and Terrence. LOL.


The following day, It was Friday!
The start of my holidays, naturally since I slept late the night before, I woke up late. The morning was rather dull, but come afternoon, when they had the city tour for the foreign delegates.
I met up with the 3 Japanese delegates that day. Nozomi, Elle & Kae chan. I'm still unsure about how to spell their names, so far I call them No-chan, L-chan and Kae-chan.
Interestingly, they know my name in Japan, its the name of a restaurant. Cool!
We took them around Esplanade, Merlion park and Marina Square. For Kae-chan, we brought her to Bugis to shop around for a top. Then back to TCT (Bukit Merah) for the rest of the evening's service. There was more about being Eagles for the lord!


Saturday
I came almost on time, but stopped at Redhill market to eat some breakfast.
Went to the service and heard Ps YC talk about the temptations of Jesus.
It went on until the evening where we went out with other foreign delegates to do street blessings. We managed to bless some people yeah!
The evening was wrapped up by a quick message on catching the Holy Spirit's Fire!

I'm not quite sure where I get the time to blog so much lately. I guess it must be the last few days of school and there has been quite a lot of commotion going on lately.

Today was our last Anatomy & Physiology lesson. Sweet!
As in literally, our facilitator bought us sweets as a parting gift.
There were Kit Kats, Toblerone, MARS Bars, Crunchie & Hershey's Dark Chocolate.
At first I grabbed the Kit Kat, but someone threw back the Dark Chocolate and I took it. Drools. Shared it with my princess after school. Princess's lesson ended late... 1630 still going on, OMG, thats late for a last week lesson.


Picture from Wiki...

Still I have to give the limelight to my classmate. He went pubbing during the 2nd breakout. He sure has guts, to drink in mid-day and come for class. Most of my classmates thought he drank Absinthe.
Weird Drink... Looked it up in Wiki, LOL!
Don't doubt the power of an RP student.

He came back to class, all drunk and started talking extra loudly, banging his head on walls, tables and slapping himself. He eventually fainted and we had to drag him out of class & RP security was called. Shortly after he went to the toilet and washed himself (most likely cold water) and got knocked out on the restroom floor. There the security guards took a wheelchair to get him. It was rather comical, and the silly Fire Alarm system went off...

I rushed home, and rushed out to meet SQ & Jun Long, we went to the gym at the swimming complex. Nice place, pity it smells of sweat. Ran on treadmills, Walked on cycle machines, did bench presses and pull ups. After my shower, my whole body started to ache. Nice!

An exciting day!

Our class photo!
E37J!























Well, the last week is here.
I just had my last Lab Management Lesson yesterday.
It was quite fun, we just visited the lab, inspected it and took photos.
Analyzed our data on the lab and proposed improvements to be made.
That was all!
Simple!
Hooray!
I enjoyed it... LOLZZZ

Our nice faci treated us Nasi Lemak for breakfast!
More Happiness!
We ended early and played Nintendo Wii Bowling!
I drank Ice Chocolate from Galilee Cafe, (Full of dark choco bits and cream, nice!)



ZZZ... I didn't manage to go cell today.
SY is sick and I wanted to see how he was doing.
He'll most likely ask me to play games but still, I haven't seen him in weeks and it would be good to catch up. SQ status is enigma till now.

A Picture with my great great spiritual grandfather & mother (Ps Khong & Ps Nina), its so hard to get them in a picture they are almost like celebrities. Dear princess sent me the pictures, thanks.


Spiritual Linage
Dad - Chris Tan
Granddad - Ps Yeang Cherng
Great Granddad - Ps Eugene
Great great Granddad - Ps Khong


Anyway, the 15th Week of school has come to a close with today's lesson.
Where we played another round of Taboo! I do like the game, it's very exciting.
Past week's events.
-Fri - During Driving, I almost got knocked at a X junction, couldn't see past the right turn I was making and another car zoomed straight past... Dangerous!
-Sat - Quincy's Housewarming! I brought Ferrero Roches (Chocolates)
Plenty of food and drinks, plus an interesting game of monopoly.
Excellent cheesecake by Cui and Cass! Thanks!
-Thurs (Today) - Prayer walked my school with Leonard, Jovii, Angie, Adeline, Chee Chiong! Nice prayer walk!

Sleepy - Need sleep - Night

Welcome to August Blogpost!

I must admit, I've been quite lazy to blog lately. I've borrowed Harry Potter to read, taken up driving, started on G302 Final Year Project part 2 and finished my 20 blessing to people for the 100K.

Recovered from Flu the previous week only to suffer at the hands of Food poisoning after the RP JUMP (Jamming @ The United Music Party) aka The OFFICIAL Opening of RP by PM. Probably the food (Must be the Rendang) or could be due to several factors.

I've just finished blessing 20 people for the 100K campaign. I must thank God for open doors, to my classes and my friends. I've also finished reading the new Harry Potter book after many late nights and panda eyes. Thankfully it didn't affect my mood even thought my mind was sleepy, I was lively! Still I thought the ending was so typical. The good thing was everything linked up, the bad? Well, I quite liked the B'day present Harry got from Ginny, the only problem I didn't quite like the ending.

Oh well, about the name of the post. I was watching this Taxi pass by as I waited to cross the road. Usually it says "HIRED" when people are inside, however, this particular taxi's sign was spoilt and showed "TIRED."

Jeez, I won't want to ride such a taxi. Anyway, all for the fun of blogging. This is Jeneral out!

Its a super spender day.
$7 on Simpson's Movie Tix
$3 on Repairing my charger wire
$6 on iPod Ear Buds
$3.50 on Ai Tei Amitsu Ice-Cream
$6 on Bugis Arcade

I went out with princess Garnet to Bugis to spend a day out! It was also a time that I was able to try repair my charger. Its one of the only days where I was able to take a break from school since it was a school holiday. The day after the PM came to visit and OFFICIALLY OFFICIALLY open RP. I don't know how many openings we had already.

We ate a extremely nice ice cream dessert and went back to the cinema to catch the Simpsons movie! It was super funny and I enjoyed myself having a good laugh. After enjoying the movie, I went off to the leaders 144 meeting!

This is all for this current post. More soon!

Mum Just Bought me the new Hillsongs Album!
Savior King 2007!


Nice! Thanks Mum! Still have to pay her back though.
-Driving On Friday was with another familiar instructor. It was the same car as the one last week. Number 43! Instructor this time wasn't as friendly as the first time, maybe because he was sick. Not sure.

-The FYP poster presentation was alright. It's finally over, I'm free temporarily. We were to be assessed by 6 facilitators in total. Firstly we were questioned by 3 facilitators in the first round, 1 of them our own facilitator. 1 Facilitator asking about our team dynamics. Last 2 facilitators tormented our team with close to 30 questions. Technical questions like the principle of how an machine that we used to analyze certain components worked, and what is the exact pore size range of the membrane were asked and that positively killed us. Our smart answer should have been that we did not cover such details in our project scope.

-I joined the intercession team for service today. It was a interesting experience where I had to pray for the congregation on many various parts. That I was standing in the middle, trying to bridge God to the people. My thought today was to break free, it corresponds to the song from the new album.

-Harry Potter has just released, I'm going to make use of my $10 voucher from Borders to buy the final installment of the HP series. I'm sure Angie would love to read it. Nah, she collects these things and surely would buy her own book.

-Are you part of the 100K?

Hillsong United Lyrics

"Hillsong United Break Free lyrics"

Verse 1
Would you believe me, would you listen if I told you that
There is a love that makes the way, it never holds you back

Verse 2
Who would have thought that God would give his one and only Son
Taken a stand upon the cross to show his perfect love

Pre-chorus
So would you break free, would you break free get up and dance, in His love

Chorus
His love never ends, yeah.
There's no escaping the truth, there's no mistaking its you
God forever we'll get up and dance, get up and dance and praise you
There's no escaping your love, there's no mistaking your light
Across the world we will get up and dance, get up and dance and praise you

Verse 3
Now is the time to take this freedom that has come our way
Offer our lives to see the glory of His name

Bridge
Never ? all our days
We are holy Lord, holding onto all your ways
We are holding on, holding on to all you've said and you've done
We are holding on to your love
Now we will dance

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Some Pictures From Monday

This is the 2nd week of the 100K Blessings.
Progress Report: 4 People Blessed.
It's the start of another semi busy week.
Driving today and Friday! Yay!
Anatomy & Physiology2 UT3 Tomorrow!
Open Cell on Wednesday.
FYP G301 Project Poster Presentation on Saturday!

That's how busy I am. You can just imagine why this bloggie is neglected and seldom updated these days.


Interesting Things of the Day.
-The Driving Instructor that taught me last Friday came to teach me again. I do enjoy him, quite quirky and lively fellow, he is also quite easy going and tells me all the mistakes I make and how many points I get.
-He taught me the emergency break during a cornering. (Imagine Tokyo Drift)
-I prayed for my friend over UT yesterday, she was quite lost in what to study for UT so I helped her revised and blessed her. Pity she rushed off, she ticked Eternal Life in her blessing package!
-I recall recently at the Marketplace conference, where I sat in the 3rd row from the stage. I was so close to the Pastors and was able to observe what they were doing. It was quite a interesting time.

I really miss blogging, but really can't spare too much time. This is the end of my post this week.

Its Independence day today. The fourth of July.
Bro Terence just sms-ed me to take over from him in Choir tomorrow.
Guess I just can't escape this year.
God must be telling me that he wants me to serve.

I skipped school today, because I didn't bring my lab coat.
Instead, I hung out with Fiz doing our lab reports and playing Dota for a while.
I also managed to meet up with my facilitator in charge of the FYP.
We're done with submission and now its time for the poster.

After which I went home, rested awhile before going down to EJ144 meeting. It was quite a good time as they introduced us to the points that Ps Ed would be making this weekend and the brief overview on the the 100K Campaign card worked. The interesting thing was, that the password for the campaign was to be "Transformers"

Now Transformers was a great movie. I caught it on Monday with my princess. It had some great action, transformation, some humor, some romance and most importantly, lots and lots of robot action. Now I won't spoil it for you fans. I'm just telling you to go watch, I'm giving it a 4/5 if not 5/5 rating.

Its through the cross, I've truly been transformed!

Welcome to the month of July!
The Month of the 100K Blessing Campaign.
I'm just taking a quick break in between editing my FYP G301 Report and studying for my Final Theory Test.

The week has been hectic, as I've mentioned, I've been full time on FYP report. Having driving on Monday till around 9 and taking a bus all the way home.
Staying after school on Tuesday & Wednesday to discuss what our reports still lacked and to find out what things were not done well. Missing my dinner till rather late. Went with my princess to watch her eat. XD
Staying till 2030 in the evening on Thursday to do the compile the results and discussions.

Went home finally on Friday and rushed my report with diagrammatic examples. Finished most of the stuff on Saturday. Went down to Sim Lim to buy a new Hard Disc for my desktop. Only to return home to find Windows missing from the computer and it refused to boot.
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A Day in the life of a busy professional full time student.
Thank God! I'm his son and he looks after me.
I'm lucky I don't crash like computers.

I'm going out on a movie outing with princess tomorrow!
All that craziness has got to have some break.
We're going to watch either of the 2 movies below!
Excited and happy!
An long eagerly anticipated outing.
Time of R&R.
Thank God!

It's Monday again, I just came back from a tiring disappointing day. It was like most things that could go wrong, went wrong. Its totally Murphy's Law.

The previous day, I went out with SY and SQ. We ate at Bugis, having MOS Burger for dinner and after that popping by the arcade, which was sadly full to the brim. It had the new game Supreme Commander and the new C&C 3. So we journeyed to Bedok to find the LAN center quite empty and had several games before I reached home at 11.

Gosh, that was quite the mistake. I woke up this morning quite tired and not having studied for my UT. Then I Had Proteomics Lab, which was relatively easy but rather time consuming, and that actually went on for quite a while. I was so busy I didn't have time to download the presentations and study for the test. In the end the test came out all the technical terms which I severely needed resources but had none in the presentations I held. SO...! The test was done quite badly.

After school, I met Garnet and we went for dinner before dropping off at Yio Chu Kang and doing my driving practical. This time I met a guy who was slightly more senior, but I was severely testing his patience and cool. I all my mistakes just appeared one by one, changing gear too fast, changing too slow, jerky start off, not stopping in time (Gasp!), driving into the pedestrians crossing when a guy started at the far end (Bigger Gasp!!) It was pretty bad.

I need rest and sleep, and lots of God to make myself feel better.
Night...

To my very own Father at home and spiritual father and fathers out there


Happy Father's Day!!!

A special day to commemorate our fathers!
For all the help and nurturing they provided over the days gone by.
The times that hey helped to support us.
The discipline that they tried to impart into us.
And all the love they tried to show in the various ways possible.

I celebrate this father's day by making full use of the promotions available.
Aww, can't help a guy that needs a new phone.
I got a brand new K800i! The one that I was longing to get since the start of this year.
Ah, my birthday wish fulfilled. I'm indeed happy!
3 MP Yeah!
Xenon Flash Yeah!

Garnet Confiscated the phone.... Awww!
Ha-ha, so much for new phone, she doesnt like any model besides Nokia for some reason.
A new phone, and happy father's day!
What a combo!


BTW, I think we need a good laugh from time to time.
So here is a classic where we can hear and get a good laugh at.

Bwah Ha-Ha!
It wasn't the last post of the month after all.
This will be the last post of the month.
I'm just saying that today was a tiring day.

I woke up and ate breakfast.
My mum just handed me the vacuum and asked me to vacuum the house.
I vacuumed the house, repacked the storeroom and washed my bathroom.
That's alot of work that has been postponed for a long time.

Tired out but managed to gain a sense of fulfillment.
I even managed to earn $3.50, thats the amount that my mum paid me for my work.
That came from the amount I got from the karang guni man for selling newspapers.
Thats all for today!

This will supposedly be the last post of May.
I'm quite busy with School, FYP and Family.
Had quite a fun time today.
My team wrote a proposal for getting a research grant.

Sure given it wasn't a full fledged proposal and it was crafted in less than 2 hours.
It was a good job done. Actually, it was the only job done. Cause the other teams didn't do a proposal.

Naturally, if you have something different, it will be dissected by others. There, 3 other teams converged and ripped the proposal apart. Every little detail scrutinized. Then we were bombarded by questions and well fried, steamed, roasted, grilled, satay(ed) and boiled. Finally, when we couldn't take it anymore, we let off a few Nuclear powered smoke bombs. Dam it was fun!

Have a great May!
A Wonderful June Ahead!
Last week!
Holidaze Mood!