So long, so long.

Its been a week of so long, so longs.

Chek, Gerrard, Daniel Tan, Ashish, Beh.

Airport nights x3 = too much Popeyes and using Xz for transportation.

:D

x

Cheers to old friendships and new beginnings for all :)

JONNAYE

HAPPY TWO-OH JONNAYE.

The day has finally come that you can no longer point at me and laugh at my loss of youth. Now that you are almost an oldie, here’s to more Starbucks in Singapore and Crepes in San Francisco.

P.S. I want that moehawk back someday.

xx

Yellow submarine

At the Beh’s month-early farewell. A mixture of happy & confused faces :))

GBC 50TH ANNIVERSARY: The puzzle

So just to recap.

If we back up a few entries we would be reminded of the dilemma that presents itself in the controversial photo above. The Who will Gideon choose? puzzle will now unfold itself for all ye readers out there who care about the relationship status of my younger brother!

This photo was posted a few entries back as well:

This might have led people to misunderstand that Gideon had chosen our dearest Amelyeah (aka epitomy of innocence); but you are gravely mistaken.

The outcome of this puzzle might be mind-boggling for many, but bear with me.

Turns out that Gideon (aka the drunken groom) + all his potential brides-to-be ended up falling for JONATHAN MA, aka OUR WAITER FOR THE TABLE THAT AFTERNOON. This story unravels itself from the beginning when Jonathan first came around to serve our table, causing a ruckus when Stacey (not present in photo) appeared smitten by his suave skills of serving sea cucumber soup (WOW did you note the alliteration in that sentence). This then led on to a full-blown LETS GET TO KNOW JONATHAN game which involved guessing his last name, his age, his birthday.. and so on.

Thus I present to you the outcome of the puzzle which shall now be known as the curious case of the waiter named Jonathan. The poor dude, seriously – he even got harassed after the lunch to take a photo with all these crazy mamas. My apologies to the staff.

GBC 50TH ANNIVERSARY: The next gen

Surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses,

Let us run the race not only for the prize;

But as those who’ve gone before us,

Let us leave to those behind us,

A heritage of faithfulness passed on through godly lives.

GBC 50TH ANNIVERSARY: The chao elite

Introducing the self-professed chaoelite HL Man, his muscles and his posse.

And the mini chaoelite in the making.. who has a long way to go.

GBC 50TH ANNIVERSARY: The bash

Our formal celebration of our church’s 50th jubilee year at Meritus Mandarin :) Here are a few snaps to summarize the different components of the afternoon..

These are us, the receptionists, and our trying-to-look-important-when-we-actually-have-nothing-much-to-do-photos.

These, are the CRASH-THE-RECEPTIONIST-TABLE-AND-TAKE-PHOTOS girls :)

Note: Clubbers paradise photo in second row & sunglass weirdness photo in third row.

These, are the usherers-who-stand-around-and-look-like-paikias, as well as the brothers-who-just-come-to-eat-lunch.

These, are the actual 800+ members of the entire church who turned up to have a free lunch :) HAHA jokes.. just kidding.

This is the WCG girls table! Note the chaotic candid expressions. I love how Auntie Aitho is captured in the last photo trying to dodge from the shot. Haha!

And this, a series of unfortunate events.

1. Jon with too much foundation on (he was in a skit) and doing one of his weird facemelting movements which in this case proved fatalistic and something he will eternally regret.
2. A failed GM-HL photo because POONETH crashed it. HAHA.
3. J is for Jaebum and N is for Nichkhun! But my N is inverted :(
4. Poor photographers subject to the various shoving of cameras and “EH HELP ME TAKE PHOTO!!” demands.
5. Brothers with premature beer bellies.
6. A lost friend found! (Ok this is not an unfortunate event).

And our last series of photos shall be entitled, Who will Gideon choose? In this series, we explore how Gideon, the drunkard groom, wakes up to find that he has left behind a trail of white flowers to four different girls, of which appear the next morning seeking his acceptance and hand of marriage. Who will he choose? Stay tuned to find out!

(To explain the other photos in the series: o yes, I am the bridesmaid of course and the boys are the best men.)

First cg!

SHAWNA CUT OFF MY TAIL!!!!! I was getting attached to it :( It reminded me of how long my hair was. And it was SPESHUL. Boo. She cut it mercilessly off with a pair of scissors. SAD.

As revenge, I am so converting her to the dark side. KOREAN BOYBANDS THAT CAN DANCE. AND WONDERGIRLS.

P.S. It felt really great to be back in cg again. Where I belong, still.

Happy birthday shermskies :)

You are 18, beautiful, blessed and very much loved.

On your birthday this year, I WISH YOU CRAZYNESS to have the fun and courage to choose the road less traveled :) You know iloveyouandmissyou! xoxo

SADDLEBACK CHURCH

This post is primarily dedicated to all members of the WESTERN CARE GROUP OF GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH. HELLO I WENT TO RICK WARREN’S CHURCH!!!!! Flashback almost 1+ years ago to PDL period.

So this was LAST DAY of the roadtrip :( SADLY. Okay Saddleback was technically the only main thing I wanted to do before I left, and we had Redondo Beach on the hold if we had enough time (WHERE ALL THE OC BEACH PLACES WERE FILMED). However, we left the house at 830 and had to pick Yvette and then I forgot some stuff so we had to go to the apartment and then Rochelle fell asleep early the night before and forgot to google directions and the service was at 9AM. HAHAHA.

So…….. we drove around for ONE HOUR AND FORTY MINUTES – I kid you not, ladies and gentlemen. Ridiculooouuusssss. Half of this time Roch and Yvette were stopping by places to go in and ask for directions, and I WAS ASLEEP. FAST ASLEEP in the car. The best part was it was Sunday morning so the christian radio station was playing worship songs! Awesome. So I whenever I woke up I felt like I was in church but I was actually IN THE CAR. So we drove around for 1hr and 40mins and by that time, of course, we decided to go for the 1115am service. Well, we found the place in the end. CLEARLY.

FINALLY FOUND IT. And look at how many WELCOME TO SADDLEBACK signs that are. And this is because, SADDLEBACK CHURCH  IS LIKE A THEME PARK. OMGED.

Please look at that. 1) SADDLEBACK CHURCH MAP. 2) VARIOUS TENTS for VARIOUS SERVICES 3) ENORMOUS THEME PARK ESQUE CAR PARK 4) THEME PARK CROWD.

FREE COFFEE!!!! And please look at that ridiculous architecture. IT IS SUCH AN AWESOME CHURCH. Even though its like big and huge and theme park ish, somehow the atmosphere is so nice and friendly and church ish and I MISS THAT SO MUCH HELLO GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH I MISS YOU.

And this is in the main sanctuary!! PLEASE CHECK IT OUT IT IS RICK WARREN. I was so excited when he came out, I had to take a photo even though he was beginning the sermon. Hurhurhur. And GUYZ, he has LOST WEIGHT. Let that be an inspiration for you all – by you all I mean Gideon.

And THIS. Is a woman who sang the Lord’s prayer after service. AND GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS, DOESNT SHE LOOK LIKE OPRAH!?!?!? I shall upload the bigger photos on facebook and we can have a great uproar there. Hahahahaha.

The message by Rick Warren that morning was So Heavy. AND INTENSE. You know, one of those messages that tug at your heartstrings and you know that you have to go back and do something about it although in your head you really don’t want to cos it will mean that your entire life will have to be rearranged. Yeah, that kind of message. And I don’t think it has entirely sunk in yet. Today I did do a confession of my sins though – not as detailed as I would have liked, but its a first step. And honestly, I love Saddleback. It is a powerful place with amazing ministry, and surely God has really blessed that place. I definitely want to return when I get the chance.

“Come now, let us reason together,”
says the LORD.
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow;
though they are red as crimson,
they shall be like wool.

Isaiah 1:18

After that there was no time for Redondo beach :( So it was to the airport (IM GLAD WE GOT THERE ALIVE….. patronizing driver turned psychotic) – had Denny’s for lunch and home sweet home it was for me :)

I LOVED THE OC, but honestly, I missed the Ihouse. It really is home right now. Although I had to take the BART by myself back and change trains at Oakland (the place where people die omged), and then take a long walk back from the train station to the ihouse AND IT WAS RAINING (and raining on my hot chocolate) and I did feel a little sorry for myself when people passed me by with umbrellas, it felt SO GOOD to reach the ihouse, take a warm shower, and then open the doors to a big welcome hug from friends – who insisted that “Ring us when you get back” did not refer to when I got back to the ihouse but when I got to the airport so they could pick me up at the train. SO MUCH FOR MY SAD WALK. OH WELL, it was a good experience of being Independent I guess. HAHA.

AND WELL ROCHELLE FLORES, our parallel lives have finally crossed. Little wonders, indeed.

Thanksgiving

I JUST GOT BACK FROM YOUTH CAMP TODAY. AND I TOTALLY CRASHED AND BURNED AND COULDNT WAKE UP FOR PETE’S BIRTHDAY THING IM SO SORRY PETE DUIBUQI.

Okay too many things to recap about camp. AND IM TALKING TO MY NEWEST BFF TANIA YEO WHO IS BUSY UPLOADING THE 900 PHOTOS IN HER CAMERA AHAHAHAHAHAHA OMGED OKAY WHY AM I TALKING IN CAPS I MUST STOP.

Sat night we were supposed to have Matthew&Friends, BUT twist of events and it ended up being a thanksgiving dinner plus GAMES DAY. HAHA. We had a new friend though! STACEY TOTALLY COUNTS.

This was Jon’s drawing of Ben. HAHAHAHAHAHAA. Nice job considering the last time he drew a particular dude in our church, it ended up looking like MAOZEDONG HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

LANDLORD AND IM THE BOSS! Our favourite games. Checkout thet teams in action. STUPID ALLIANCES THAT NEVER WORK. Oh yes of course we also played our favourite cg game TABOO before this. And Amelyeah’s FAMOUS WORDS OF THE NIGHT: DEBORAH I BELIEVE IN YOU. In fact when we were on the same team when playing Landlord, she went on to try and alliance with Hannah by going, Hannah I’m your cousin and I love you and I’m going to be your bridesmaid when you get married. SHE EVEN TRIED THAT ON SHAWNA. HAHAHAHAHAHA OMGED.

When Shawna uploads the millions of photos she has (which will take forever cos they are so big HAHA) I will put up the NICE GROUP PHOTO FOR EVERYONE TO SEE :) We took one last year during games day too! TIME FLIES.

Im so high on life right now. There is a bit of me that doesn’t even wana leave for Cali in Jan.

SEESEEHAYCHSEE

This is so overdue.

The monumental first CCHC sleepover! 10/10/08.
A Walk to Remember, The Notebook.. and other late night shenanigans.
With the girls, I get one more shot at being fourteen again :)

Tribute

As promised, Jon’s 19th birthday videos (insert pleased face).

Interviews.

5 Years Time, GBC REMIX.
I love this video AND EVERYONE IN IT! Good times man, good times :) I’m sure God is enjoying all this as much as we are! HURHUR.

Rockstar Supernova

Updated with rockstars in action! Or not.

Sunday afternoon was happy-belated-surprise-Jon & lets-play-rockband-day! I managed to finish editing the bday video we did for Jon just in time, and we screened it (woohoo its so going up on youtube and here when I manage to upload it) and then spent the rest of the time playing rockband &guitarhero. I am really very proud of myself and my video.. cos I managed to do Jon’s AND complete my video assignment (group project YEAH RIGHT) within the same week and the Prof lurved it. I IS AWESOME.

Happy birthday (again) Jon the man!

ARE YOU GONA BE MY GIRL? DUMDUMDUMDUMDUMDUM. Singing along is uber fun. Shouting along is funner. I KNOW LETS GO KBOXING ONE DAY!

ROXANNE. AHAHAHAHAHAHA THIS IS REALLY HILARIOUS.

The first pose was inspired by Ben’s pertinent role in the birthday video. Heehee.