25 April 2011

Singapore Flyer with the Elderly on Easter!



I'm glad that this Easter I didn't had to fret bout not attending multiple services, not inviting enough people to church, or feel responsible for empty seats and a lack of new friends saved! I am finally free from this annual commitment after 7 years!

Thankfully, in this new year, in this new decade, everything starts afresh.

This Easter morning was spent bringing some elderly who stay in one-room flats at Kim Tian Place to the Singapore Flyer! Peeps from LifeUnited, Clement, Carlos, Xue Er and whoever I left out actually went to knock on their doors one by last week to invite them! Respect!


I believe they'll all taking a ride on the iconic structure for the 1st time!


The Journey of Dreams begins!


 
It's his 1st too so he really 赚到, hahaha!





It'll be so cool if we get to see this every time we go through security checks at the airport!


Just look at the disparity between the pictures I take of him and vice versa. -_-'''









It's supernatural, extraterrestrial! =D







A super-colorful spherey thingy!





After a short walk through the exhibition, it's time to take the a-dollar-per-minute ride!



Youthies & oldies. And the universal Peace Sign!


Look! It's a bird, it's a plane, no it's ________! That line is forever inked in my memory!


I look the best here amongst the photos we took and he 偏偏 not looking at the camera!





One of the proudest achievements of the incumbent... Also, one of the markers in which they have deemed themselves to be successful leaders of Singapore. Do Singaporeans at large feel the same way?



Personally, I am a little disillusioned with the Singaporean way of life, with the ideology that "if you study hard, you will eventually get a good job and if you work hard, one day you will be successful" that we are all too familiar with since we were kids in school.  Yet on the other hand, I know that Singapore wouldn't be the stable and safe First World nation that we are today without the immense vision of our leaders. So I'm really confused as to who to vote for in the meantime! The easiest way out is to draw a turtle on my polling card come Election Day, haha! *Disclaimer: This is just a joke!*


After enjoying the scenery in the quick 30 mins ride, we brought the elderly to the Singapore Food Trail food court where we served them the catered nasi lemak.


The drink stall sells drinks that comes in old school glass bottles with metal caps and how very coincidentally I needed the latter for a design of a wall panel at LifeUnited's new church venue!


And of course, Lady Wen being Lady Wen, I unabashedly asked the staff at the drink stall to give me all the metal caps that they had twice in 2 rounds of collecting! =D Hiak hiak hiak. 



My most artistic photo of the day and I would like to call it, "Old School vs. New Cool". Haha. =p


The excursion today made me realize that blessing the community or the elderly in this instance can be as simple as buying them a meal and bringing them to visit a place. It's not a lot of hassle and one doesn't have to spend a bomb!


What I liked about this community project is that it is purely voluntary and whoever is interested can just sign up for it. There was no obligations and no fuss about it. And it is so unlike what I was used to doing during the Easter season. And I'm loving it.


We didn't just had one big service, boom and went on to the next but Pst Darren had intentionally slowed things down and we talked about Jesus and the cross for 4 weeks in lieu of Easter. We had the Holy Communion every week and even actual unleavened bread and red wine in the last! We were also welcomed to bring the elements home and could partake of it it in the privacy of our own home whenever we prefer. No more autopilot mode!



I had a deeper understanding of the Cross and the significance of the Holy Communion which I feel is so much more meaningful than the hullabaloo that I've been exposed to every time this year. How very liberating.



Happy Easter everyone! :)





01 April 2011

It was everything I ever dreamed of...



Power 98 started it first:






And it was really fun to play along! Check out the WhatsApp convo with a friend:










Victim no. 1. Hehehe. I almost wished it was true. I was cracking my brains trying to think of a hilarious joke I but I couldn't think of anything funny at all! All I could think of was like tweeting, " I just fainted and then I think I was in heaven. I saw angels with wings!" *lame* Totally have no crazy humor cells in me like Ding Neng does.


And lo and behold this greeted me on my Facebook newsfeed this morning!


 
Even though I'm not very close to Reinald, I know there was no way he was gonna be in a R/S now. Inspired, I had to pull one myself! =D



Tada!







Then look at the response of my friends!!! =DDDDD






And another!









I learnt that FB will show whatever pics that you and yr partner is tagged in when you are "married" to each other so I went to untag the ugly ones!



And I had to save the best for the last! Our WhatsApp convo part 2!





Hehehehehe. She believed me!!! Couldn't stop laughing to myself! Ms. J even tried to call my "hubby" to verify but thank heavens he was in a meeting! She even smsed to say she wanted to be my bridesmaid!! It's amazing how many of my female friends want to be my bridesmaid and and even a male friend haha!! At this rate, I would have to hold an audition for it!


I had so much fun being married for a day. Can you imagine when I really do get married!? You girls didn't really think I was ever gonna ROM without first announcing it to the whole world, did you!? =D 


Just remember, Power 98 and Reinald started it first! Not me! Hehe! =p But if you're still pissed/feel cheated/dun think it's funny or whatever, watch this video! Confirm won't be upset anymore! *winks winks*




Oh you don't wanna miss the magic at 2:44!!


  

HAPPY APRIL'S FOOL DAY EVERYONE!! You wouldn't believe the number of times I literally ROFL!! My first ever major April Fool's prank in my life was a success. Hope you had as much fun as I did! =p



Now, back to waiting for that dude to get down on his knees and say those 4 sacred words!