Thoughts in Verse.

" Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened." Matthew 7: 7-8

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear.......Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?" Matthew 6: 25,27

"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." Matthew 7: 1-2

"No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and ____." Matthew 6: 24

I seem to like Matthew today.

"Rejoice in the Lord always, I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Finally. brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable - if anything is excellent or praiseworthy - think about such things. " Philippians 4: 4-8

Moved. In more ways than one.

I'm sorry this has taken me so long to post! It's not a reflection of how grateful I am to all those wonderful friends who appeared at AH, hiding under the concierge, with my birthday cake, a lovely card and presents!! Coz I really am greatly touched, I've never had friends who've done that sorta thing for me before, I mean, going to the hospital late at night, regardless of where you stay, waiting for half an hour or more for me, and resorting to amusing yourselves with whatever was around at the lobby (haha), even when there's school the next day, after a long day of clinics (I should know), and managing to con me to get me out of my next-to-favouritest place in the hospital. Thats quite a feat. And it shouldn't go unnoticed, not because it was a celebration of my birthday, but because it's a reflection of how friendships like yours should be treasured, and treasure them I will. These next few pictures posted here are in honour of the lovely friends I have, who went WAY out of their way, to make my nightcall/birthday, the best and most memorable in my life. I owe you guys.

That's 13 people under there, I think, at least when I saw them. haha.

An amazed/stunned me.

I couldn't stop smiling.

My two call buddies, Su and Hon, who succeeded in conning me.
With a little help from baos and eugene of course.

Ok I realize there are more photos of me than of them,
but it's still a tribute to them!!

Thanks for the photos Huilin! And also to Li and Marcus, for being there!
My thanks, of course, extends to everyone else too.

A Great BIG Thank You to everyone who made that day so special for me, and
also to those who couldn't make it, but dropped me a msg.
My mouth was cramping by then, I tell you.

On a side note, I really HAVE moved to my new place. Hence the...delay in posting this up. Hm, We're slowly settling in..unpacking and rearranging everything to suit us. I'll miss my home of 21 years. Moving house is tiring work.

Good ol' 32. Home of my childhood, and more.

+10s = -$200

"Joel! Save your adrenaline!" said Honlyn, who went on to say that I was visibly shaken/riled up by a mere conversation about my impending ippt later in the afternoon. Apparently, my left facial vein pops out when I get a little...anxious, how embarrassing! I HOPE, I hope, that my facial vein behaves itself in the hospital in front of our doctors and patients (as well as any other signs that I might display with my unease)... And that Hon is just really good at reading me. Imagine me trying to draw blood from a patient, who might be observant enough to spot my unpracticed hands (which isnt hard really), AND a throbbing left facial vein. Ah well, can't do anything about it, can I?

But I'll cut to the chase, the whole point of this latest entry, the impetus which has roused me from my non-bloggerophilic stupor (imagine that), is the fact that I just squandered a chance to win myself $200 more, all for a short duration of 10 seconds. Ippt was going fine, William and I OWNED all the stations prior to the 2.4 run. And then we ran. I felt a little weak/light headed doing a light jog just before the run, which isnt much of an excuse, just a likely piece of evidence that I'm not yet up to par. I mean, I remember almost always having butterflies in my stomach at the start line, but today was worse than that. Running that pace didnt feel liberating, I felt heavy, slow, sick, and out of breath really quickly. It didn't feel like a 9 minute pace, and sure enough, it wasn't, by...erm..quite a bit of time actually.

Alright, I'm done griping, I wouldve griped more if I got to the computer faster, but I feel resigned to this fate. A 25-point silver. 9.24. Sad. I even entertained thoughts of re-taking the test, just to be 10s faster. Ugh. So anyway, my results, stupid stupid stupid.

And I know, I'm supposed to post Vietnam pictures! But Clinics have been killing me, and I've just been too lazy. They'll be up....soon! Time to turn in.

Hm. Ivy.

Love this song, think they made the video on a low budget though. Hope they'll remake it.



Another great song by ivy. Feel so free. I don't think they made a music video. I don't even watch csi.

By the way, Transformers totally rocked. I'd vote it movie of the year. Even if it doesnt have much of a story line. And even though the year hasnt even ended. Go watch it twice, at least.