4 - 6 July 2005 ( Thursday - Saturday)

4 July 2005 (THURSDAY)

3 July - 11pm
I started to make my paper roses for the Dinner under the Stars. It's so exciting. I just can't wait for that nite. The guys suppose to be a gentleman and go to bring a girl to their seat. And at the same time, they will present the rosse to them as an expresesion of friendship. Intending to make light yellow for all the youths. There's a significance of the rose. Light yellow is actually the mixture of yellow and white. Yellow stands for Friendship and White stands for purity. And the rose is paper which means it will not wither and it represents eternal. So the Frendship between them will be one that is pure in God's eyes and one that is for eternal. Isn't this sweet. Hmmm! I'm proud of my masterpieces and i thank God for this gift He has given to me. Then the married couple, i make red roses for the husband to give to their wife. Well, the colour speaks for itself. Need no explanation. By the time I'm done, it's like about nearly 2am.

4 July - XXpm
Can't really remember wat time i woke up. Should be quite late. But I did manage to wake up in time to catch the repeat of my present favourite korean serial, Da4 Chang2 Jing2 at 10.30am. Suppose to go down to Marina South to check out the firework display area. Going down over there to watch fireworks during National Day. It's really eye-opener becoz you are like 1 km away fr the firing area. And the fireworks seem like they are filling up the whole sky and it's really beautiful. So trying to bring some of the youths to have a look. But then, the sky was getting dark, so couldn't go. Guess have to wait for another day to go down and check up the place. If i didn't remember wrongly, i dropped by church to have lunch with Lydia, Eleanor, Li Boey and Pastor Ngiam Koy. Then there was this new dish. - shelled seafood called 'joot joot' becoz you need to suck the meat out fr the shell and you make that sound while sucking. Then when i was paying, i got a shock. That "joot joot" cost 2 bucks. Wow! SO expensive. Anyway it's my first time trying. So actually, had quite a difficult time getting the meat out and honestly, i dun think i want to make such a loud 'joot joot' sound in the midst of the crowd. Haha! Finally after a long and hard fight, I was the victorious one. Though I suffered much damaged to my dignity. The rest was like laughing at me. But never the less, I know I had done a great job. My smile was one with pride and esctasy. Yah! Yah! Crap. After lunch, I had the final number for the Dinner under the Stars. Realise not enough roses, so got to make more this evening. So went home, den at night, make the remaining roses. Yawn! So tired!

5 July 2005 (FRIDAY)
Woke up a bit earlier. Had school in the afternoon. After school, I went to Singapore Plaza to do some of my shopping. Needed to buy some scented rose petals to scent my paper roses. Den also need to buy some ribbons to tie up the guys gifts. Anyway the guys gifts are a blue frenship band. Really thk God for this. Usually the band cost 1.95 per ring but when i went to check it out, it was on offer. Buy 1 get 1 free. Really good deal. So after the purchase, went to Kallang MRT to meet the youths. GOing for Festival of Praise. Suppose to meet 5.45pm but as usual some are late. I think we left at abt 6pm, den queue up for the Chartered bus. When we reach Indoor stadium, it was like packed and this time, the whole situation was different from last year. Very organised and systematic. Only 2 gates were opened. The North and South gate. We tried to get in thru the North Gate. By the time we got in, we only managed to get the South Gate seats which is like we are admiring people's bums. I just dun get it, they shd have opened the gallery seats but they didn't. End up late-comers got a better seat than us. So frustrating! haha! This year, FOP invited Hillsongs and Delirious. So both band took turn to lead. Well! I haven't been keeping in touch with Hillsongs so most of the songs are relatively new to me. Making it worst, was that the screen was facing indirectly at us which means everything was mirror imaged. Cant' read the lyrics. Then Delirious is too heavy for me. The music was blastin at my ears. Just couldn't worship. Tried shutting them out. Work initially but after a while, it becomes too heavy for the head. Nearing to the end, I left early with Ding Yi. BOth of us couldn't take it. Den took this chance to fellowship a bit with him. Finally when FOP is over, met the rest and walk back to Kallang MRT to take the train. So finally reached home was like real late. So tired.

6 July 2005 (SATURDAY)
Woke up! Did some rearrrangement for this evening dinner. Then late morning went over to Eastpoint to get some of my materials, den drop by church to print some stuff and went home.Then was like nearly 2 plus. So did up last minute touches to my flowers and gifts. Then finally changed into my shirt and pants. The guys say they wanted to wear tie. I was like erh over my dead body. No way. I rather go in a suit. Haha. Did i mention this somewhere before? SOund very familiar. Den went down with my 'ba rang ba rang' and took a cab. Then went to pick up Claudia and Li Boey. By the time we reached Novena Square, it was like nearly 6pm. Lydia and some of the youths were still doing last min decorating of the dining area. So when every thing was up, more or less everybody had arrived. Then every one mingle around and we had a cocktail reception. Cool! Very formal ocassion. Then we started off with games led by Khim. Didn't know wat they were playing. I was doing some thing eles. Then after tat was worship. And after tat was the highlight of the day. The guys were supposed to go and pick up the girls and bring them to their seats. And they were suppose to present a rose to them. I told the married men to lead by example. So Robert, William and Zhi Yang went first to their partner. Then the rest of the guys were all very shy shy. All hesistating. HAHA! I really found it funny. But eventually, all the guys swallowed their pride and went forward to pick up their partner. Well! Done Gentlemen! Oh yah! Another thing abt the girls. They all look superly wonderful and beautiful. All came in dress. I'm really like jaws dropped to my knee and tongue was rolling onto the floor. Honestly, they should really wear skirt or dress more frequently. It's like dress or skirt is really an invention by God for ladies so as to really bring out the true beauty in them. So gracious and attractive. Hmmm! I'm sure some of you are already like saying Wait long long. So after being seated, the guys were suppose to fetch erh or rather help to serve the girls. And i'm sure all the guys did a pretty good job. And yes! I did a pretty good job too. So along the way, there were some table games. Then i went around to check how's the 'situation' like in every table. Some table were a bit on the quiet side while there are some that was talking like none stop. My worst mistake was to put Jerome, Si Yuan, Natanielle and Samantha in one table. They were the cheekiest of the lot. I was being teased by them. Can't believe it. A 24 yr old guy being bullied by a bunch of sec 1 and 2 kids. Hmmm! Life is just so hard now-a-days. Haha! So nearing the end of the dinner, the girls were suppose to present the frenship band to the guys as an expression of thanking the guys for taking care of them for that night. And Claudia was like very splendid. She did up a small booklet for everyone which talks about frendship and etc things and was like really beautiful. Every card is custom made for that individual. It bears the name and the foto of the person. Really a lot of hard work for her. haha! Me feel like i didn't do much for the dinner. Then at the end of the dinner, guess wat? Yes! Clear rubbish lorh. I hope everyone had enjoyed themselves. One lessson I learnt though from this dinner. Yes we may come dress up for the ocassion but i personally still feel the character of one is the most important. A gentleman or a lady is not seen in how or wat he or she dresses in. It's in the character. Yes the dress code does make one look different but it's the heart that the Lord sees. Then was speculating whether to take cab or mrt but den take mrt lah since have to escort the youths back. Really a long and tired day. But really very exciting.Praise the Lord for this ocassion becoz He provided for that wonderful place and also that night's weather was really good. (Though i still melted and felt a bit unpresentable lah! Imagine my partner has to keep seeing me wiping my sweat off myself. Haha!)