>>>> http://ameliastory.livejournal.com


as i'm not used to it yet, it looks kinda weird. oh well, it'll change soon (:

i've move to livejournal -.- whee!

Be loyal to the absent.

It's time for some change, soon.

Finally a long weekend and i've time to post!
but i'm just staring at the screen thinking what to type next.
recently i feel like i'm just floating around everything that happens.
just going with the flow, without really thinking about what i'm actually doing.
but all i want is to get my feet planted right in the heart of things and not just let the worldly things lead me along.

"Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is- His good, pleasing and perfect will."
-Romans 12:2

God has a purpose and a plan in every design.
Asking for daily sustenance reminds us who our Provider truly is; it humbles us and keeps us coming back to God regularly.
so Lord, lead me.
Take my hand and lead me through a life that is pleasing to you.

pretty much looking back at camp: Fire '08, the passion has indeed died down.
but then there came Fuel '09 held in Cornerstone Church.
i thank God for putting people in my life that led me to the decision to go for this event.
namely, bird for even telling me abt this event, and gabriel whom i think that if he didnt go, i'd most prolly wont too.
the whole thing was..........indescribable.
from being oddly terrified at the beginning, to feeling the empowerment just like at campFire at the end.

school's probably gonna start proper after orientation next week.
Lectures, tutorials, university and scholarship talks, tests, fatigue, and whatever might come, are going to be in full force.
我好怕哦！
but then i hear Him whisper, "What's there to be afraid of? surely I am with you always, to the very end of age."
i am ready.

and now some (okay, 2) photos of what amelia has been doing?

yay my first time at ice cream chef on 22nd jan

mango+rum n raisins+cookie dough= FATTENING ): YUM (:

Chinese New Year celebrations!
wow please congratulate me on that day.
for the fact that i didnt 重色轻友.
had TAE+Exco meeting (11-1230)
class lunch (1230-230)
spending time with yiyong (230-430)
dearest sec 4 besties (430-1000)

liwen, cindy, huiling (take note of height difference :p)

chinese new year's tmr! yay
though i'm only visiting on the 2nd day (!),
i wish everyone a 新年快乐，恭喜发财，身体健康，(and to the small ones), 快高长大! :p
God bless (:

shall blog one last post before school starts tmr!

yay 1st post this year.

haha let's rewind back to 1st jan:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JIAYUN DEAR!



anw, looking back at 2008, they're many ppl who really made it extra special and extra bearable through all those times when i just felt so tired and overwhelmed by everything
like.......

yiyong, bird, gabriel (i know you see this!), huiling, jiayun, sushuen, melanie, anne, jianee, cheryl, julynn, jingjing, hans (?!), meiting, liwen, cindy, rachel, TAE, and all of you out there who never fail to put a smile on my face (:

okay and i just realised it's 7:05pm and i've not done my GP homework!
k, shall end abruptly once more and continue..end of this week? yay

yay i'm back from church camp: Fire '08 and it was an AMAZING experience.
but seeing the fact that i'm sick and i need rest, i shant blog abt camp but blog cos it's 31st december!

2008 in summary..

• VJC
• VJCSB goes to NewYork
• LAMyiyong
• Majestia
• Connect SG
• TheGreatFall (that left me with the 20cm scar's that still there)
• chicken pox
• ProjectWork
• Not So Silent Night
• Camp: Fire '08
• mr tan's leaving

2009 New Year Resolutions

1. to let God's light shine through me onto the world
2. stop Procrastinating
3. be a good girl(friend)
4. practise my trumpet hard
5. GROW UP
6. not fall seriously ill
7. learn my singapore well (!)
8. 让我的华语进步！
9. not spend money like water
10. to accomplish whatever i've listed earlier

with that, i wish everyone a very Happy New Year!
shall go rest now.
God bless everyone! (:

"You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house"
[Matthew 5:14-15]

20th December '08: Dover Celebrates Christmas!

this was some Residents' Committee event which SJSM decided to take part in this year.
i was really looking forward to it cos i knew it was going to be just like Rice day, as fufilling, as rewarding, as accomplishing.
true enough, i saw some of the residents of Blk3 whom i gave rice to and they even asked what time's the christmas service.
really great to see more ppl coming to know God (:

BUT THEN,
when i woke up ytd morning, i had high fever and sore throat and i lost my voice.
felt so tired/weak/lethargic that i knew it was impossible to last 10hours at the event.
then i prayed.
and it's just so wonderful to see God work his little miracles into our lives.
within the next hour, my fever subsided, my voice came back, and my sore throat disappeared (:
was that amazing or what?
so yes, i went for DCC from 1230 to 2300 knowing God was my pillar strength and true enough, he sustained me all the way.
until when i reached home and had a splitting headache and felt like the world was spinning 100km/s ):

photos!


yay me the water girl! (forgot why i gave that face for)


the band right in front of us which entertained us with wonderful music throughout the night for like 6 hours?


it looked nicer at night and real life (:

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and counting.

let's just say, i'm contended (:

NSSN 2008

pictures! just some of the not so unglam photos from NSSN.
the rest are on facebook (:


mr tan- i'll miss you ):


trumpeters w/o samuel and serena (tsk they must've been...)


winston my christmas buddy


daniel- our ticketing comm head!

today, is a tiring day.
today, my tolerance level was pushed to a higher level.

yes firstly, tolerance level for hunger
i had lunch at abt 230 and i didnt really have breakfast!
then i had dinner close to 9 cos i'd church.

secondly, tolerance level for pee
i had to pee real badly.
held it for more than 2 hours till i pee-ed halfway during skit prac.

thirdly, tolerance level in general
there were 2 girls from SOME school who were like blasting music on the bus.
the music wasnt even nice luh, so noisy.
then "Can I have this dance" came on.
it's a nice song, until she started singing shrieking at the top of her voice like dont know what!
AND then, i boarded another bus.
there was this mad mentally disabled man who stood up right in front of the tv mobile tv and prevented me from watching my 心花朵朵开! ):
then he was pointing his middle finger and stroked the window, and turned back and pointed at me and some random guy and started shouting and then hit and shout at whoever walked past him!
i was mostly scared ):

okay and now i'm going to sleep.
NSSN's coming!
lots of little notes and presents to make, so little time.

ps. sorry if this post sounded bitchy, i'm too lazy to read it once more to edit.

PROMISE is a really big word.

life's moving really fast nowadays.
so fast that i think i cant catch up.
eons of time have been spent in band, in TAE, in skit that i think i've been neglecting the people around me and especially God.
i cant really express what i've to say,
but sometimes i get so caught up that i forget that even though one day the world comes crashing down on me, He'll always be that pillar of strength.

i wish that there would be one day, just one day, that i could sit by the beach, unlatch myself from my busy schedule, and just marvel at the beauty that is God's creation.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAM YI YONG!

you're finally a year older and hopefully a year more matured :p
glad you enjoyed your birthday today (:
really thankful that i could spend your SEVENTEENTH birthday with you.

all right then, i'm going to sleep despite my 5 hour nap just now.
once again, happy birthday dear (:

just realised how extremely unglam i looked in the previous photo!

birthday boy!

watched it yesterday and i tell you it's worth watching 10 more times over (:
the songs are like all stuck in my head!
it's NICE NICE NICE.

oh btw, you can vote for the name of your Circle line stations here:

http://talk2lta.lta.gov.sg/Surveys?action=Public.Survey.DisplaySurvey

tsk, please vote Hillview as Dairy Farm yo (:

PW drives us crazy, statement fully substantiated by real life images captured during a PW meeting.
yes, we were supposed to be discussing OP,
but we were only effectively productive for like...5 minutes?
now you know the reason why:




unglam us!


just look at the 2 VS guys acting cute


we're ready for halloween!

celebrated bird's birthday before the unproductive PW meeting above..
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIRD!







cheers to cool effects found on Sony vaios and Apple macbooks!
obviously the cooler effects with TTs were taken with an Apple macbook (:

okay, i officially have no inspiration or urge to blog.
just here to post photos.
so that's it, time for OP!
yucks :p

finally some photos taken amidst the intensive PW-ing 2 days ago!

in some classroom which we spent like half the day in.
?????????????????????????????





yes, and the next day,
WE'VE FINALLY HANDED IN OUR WR!




sorry abit unglam, cos that's the only photo i was looking at my laptop's camera /:
and one very disturbing photo taken today!




yucks yucks yucks!
tsk tsk hans! :p

alright, the trauma of chionging WR and those sleepless nights are finally over.
in order to prevent this for repeating itself for OP, we've started today!
yay!
introductory video filming was really funny with loads of NGs!
oh well, all the best to everyone for PW! (:

Amelia finally handed in her WR at 2:34pm today (:
[pictures to be uploaded at home]

Batch outing! (:
it was really fun and i didnt get THAT burnt!




we were terribly wet!


haha but i think gabriel was the wettest cos daniel and i decided to gang up against him


vivo city upstairs!


weijian's being spastic as usual

there was supposed to be one more photo, but gabriel said it was private&confidential and only for private-viewing!
haha!
so yes, shh!

okay i'm like really high cos i really enjoyed myself,
but i'm tired now,
it's 12:22am now so i shall go sleep.
be fresh for WR tmr!
okay, shall elaborate more in the near future (:

It’s the last 10 mins of my birthday and I must say that I’ve enjoyed my birthday alot.
And I mean, ALOT.
Thank you all those who have wished me Happy birthday via sms/msn/tagboard/in person and gave me presents!
It really made my day! (:

the entire afternoon was great!
went out with yiyong for lunch at Spagheddies!
thank you dear (:

and then joined huiling, meiting and cindy at vivo for dinner!


my birthday cake! macaroons! (?)




thank you all for the many presents!
though it was tough carrying them home, they really made me happy (:

i'm indeed thankful for all the people in my life, thank you for making my birthday special!

Yiyong, huiling, cindy, meiting, rachelkoh, liwen, gabriel, elizabeth, sushuen, melanie, julynn, anne, jiayun, jianee, cheryl, jing jing, melphin, xiaojia, jessie, alyssa, daniel, hongchew, alicia, rachel koh shi yi, suchin, yufang, ms lum, christie, renita, alex, zhiting, and many many more that i'm so sorry i'm too tired to recall.

Thank you all sooooooooooooooo much (:
all right now, the day's ending, WR WR WR!

Happy be-early birthday Hans! (:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MELANIE! (:

okay, this is going to be a really short post,
cos i'm going to spend the last 4 hours of my 16 year old life chionging PW.
yay!
haha one resolution for turning 17: to be more matured! and less kid-ish and retarded!
and yes, i shall go do PW now before bird starts to scold me, again!

tata!

i've been rather confused recently, not knowing what i want.
hmm..i should really learn to make my own decisions.
ahh nevermind.

anyway, we're getting back our papers tomorrow!
wow i seem so excited -.-
haha dont know la, get back first then see?

hai, and PW PW PW PW PW ):
we've yet to start on our WR and it's getting a tad bit worrying.
okay, very worrying.
really many thanks to all who encouraged me to chiong to the end for PW.
hopefully, it'll really work out in the end.

this week is going to be an interesting and exciting and enjoyable week, hopefully (:

oh, and happy birthday eng hwee! [:

shall not say it's over cos that's prolly what most people would say.
so i shall say...

考试没了完了!!

hah like my chinese is THAT bad like that.
5 things i've learnt from promos:

1. lie your head on the table while you do the paper, it helps you think better (for me at least)
2. dont call mr loke when there's a spider on the table like the girl beside me did cos he'll just laugh at you.
3. get chicken pox 2 weeks before and miss GP paper! -.-
4. read question correctly! dont read CORRECT as INCORRECT, TRUE as FALSE, HBR as HCL!
5. i dont like things that start with the letter P, like promos, prelims, AND PW (thanks anne!), but i like Presents and physics (:

k i'm just bored.
like seriously seriously bored.
have been watching 命中注定我爱你 (under the influence of Jianee, Jiayun and Julynn) and now i finally know what they've been talking abt!
though throughout the show i've to repeat it several times since i cant comprehend the first time i hear it and understand the subtitles the first time i see it -.-
man, i've got to do sth abt my chinese!

oh and the piece i'm supposed to perform has been selected!
Tchaikovsky's piano concerto in Bflat minor.
that's 5 flats!
it's the hardest piece i've ever learnt, harder that "Pathetic Sonata" by Beethoven ):
spent lots of time practising it.
no, actually figuring out the 13notes chords that come one after the other and my hands arent even big enough to play them /:
ee yucks, i dont like practising.

anyway, today was Rice day again! (:
it's a church thing that started 3 sundays ago where we went to the dover residents of block 3 and 4 and gave them rice.
offered to do any small household chores for them too.
one lady wanted us to paint her house! and she spent 30mins talking to us abt how she liked dancing.
i guess they're really lonely sometimes.
had buffet lunch with them today.
so all the residents interacted.
should've seen the old men and women!
they all looked so happy having other people to talk to.
really felt very warm and fuzzy inside seeing them happy (:

oh and i went to cut my hair ytd and "HAIR BUSINESS"
haha they had machines to wash and shampoo your hair!
it's coolios to the max though it makes your head feel funny.
haha, my hair looks exactly the same though!
just trimmed my fringe -.-

k and i should stop blogging abt my daily life, it aint THAT interesting after all.
i was bored!
something more interesting the next time i hope?
(that is if i DO sth interesting)

yup,
All the best to everyone taking chinese tmr!
and i've to study for SPA on thursday which is a supposed SCHOOL HOLIDAY ):
oh wait, and i think that HUGS have SIGNIFICANT POSITIVE EXTERNALITIES.
especially when you're feeling down and lonely (:

yay today's the 19th.
so............it means it's 4 days to econs paper!
and what is amelia doing here?
not studying econs!
yay!

yes i've given myself 6 mins break (till 9pm) before i resume studying.
not econs..but physics
how great.
okay, 5 mins left, shall make good use of it.
Till end-of-promos then!

is today a special day?


Maybe (: