The Sound of Thunder

Today, I woke up to a huge lightning thunderstorm. In fact, it had already been going on for a while before I woke up. I could hear that it was right about my house and area, because the thunder was heard immediately after the lightning flashed.

I lay in bed for a while, listening to the rolling thunder. It was kinda scary, but it was also a very cool feeling. When I got into the bathroom to start my day, the lightning struck again and the lights went out. So it was a blackout due to the weather. Which made me think hard about how small we are compared to the weather.

Humans are cocky about their achievements and how far they have come in terms of science and what-not. But the world and the elements are still way above any amount of control. Lightning and thunderstorms go on outside, and we bunker down in our brick houses, hoping it would pass and that there would not be any damage. Tornadoes and hurricanes pass and rip up everything, tsunamis and earthquakes break up our usual confidence in our ability to control everything.

To me, thunder sounds a lot like the voice of God. That with all His might and power, He is showing His dominance and His power over all of mankind and of nature. He made all of us, and wants us to accept Him, but we keep pushing Him away. He shouts to us to repent of our sins, but we keep on sinning and going about our own way of life. The thunder reminds me of how small we are in the scheme of things, and the blackout, about how we cannot be sure that our science will ever save us, or provide us with salvation. Only through Christ will our salvation be guaranteed and we have to strive to love Him with all our hearts.

Movies

So, I've been trying to catch movies every Monday, for different reasons. Firstly, it's much cheaper, only $7.00 compared to $9.50 on the weekends. Also, Monday is kinda like a extremely boring day. I don't have anything to do on Mondays, more so since the weekends are always exciting.

So today, after giving tuition to a JC2 student, I headed to Plaza Singapura for dinner and movie with Joyce. Of course, Seiwei didn't come, coz he had guitar lessons. We bought tickets for the 9.00pm Flightplan, the movie with Jodie Foster losing her daughter on this huge plane. We had dinner at Crystal Jade Kitchen and then went shopping before the movie. Joyve bought loads of cosmetics, because she never used it, and wanted to start, so that she can look pretty. Of course, when girls go shopping, they take a long time. It was kinda fun though, putting a comment here and there, and shopping with a girl is WAY more interesting than just staying at home.

Before the movie started, Joyce taught me a new game, which is guessing the advertisements and trailers before the movie starts. We would guess the exact brand that was being advertised, or the exact movie title that was being trailered. So, things like "shampoo" is not accepted, although "Lux" is. She guessed more of the advertisements of watches and brands. I got the movies, in fact, all the movie trailers. I managed to edge her 8 to 7, and won a drink from her. Hehe. And she expected to beat me easily.

Anyway, the movie was pretty good. Very suspenseful and well directed. Enjoyed it a lot. But then, I enjoy most movies, because I'm not too picky on them, as long as they are realistic and have a certain standard. Last Monday, I watched "Into the Blue", alone at Marina Golden Village, which was also good! Mainly because Jessica Alba was in a bikini most of the time and she's "DROP DEAD GORGEOUS!" The plot was not bad too, pretty interesting and I like the shots in the movie, of the beaches, the sea and of Jessica Alba.

This weekend, the movie that we're watching is "Saving Face". I'm also thinking of watching the following movies.
1) The Legend of Zorro
2) Doom
3) Transporter 2
4) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
5) Pride and Prejudice
more...

We'll see how that goes.

It's been a long time

Yeah, so it's been a long time since I've blogged. But somehow, there's not too much for me to write about. I'm still bumming, still playing frisbee, still chilling and hanging around.

But officially, my youngest sister is the most horrible person in the world. I've been mad at her for the past weeks, in fact the past months. In the 4 years that I've been away, and my second sister in the US, the youngest have grown to think that she's the princess of the world. She has no respect for her elders, demand that everyone listens to her, and has no consideration for anyone, especially her own family. She's rude to my father, and also to me. She takes things for granted and never acknowledges when someone does something nice to her. She's become pretty much the most selfish person in the world that I know. And it sucks, coz she's my sister.

I can't discipline her, coz my parents don't let me. I'm appalled my parents let her off the hook so easily. I'm usually nice to her, but she seldoms cares to talk to me. She's living in her own private world that does not involve other people. Not a word of thanks passes her mouth when I do something nice for her. Tonight was just the last straw. I needed to computer because I promised my friends in the US and UK that I would talk to them online when I got back. My sister had all day and night to use the computer for her homework, and what's more, she has her own computer that we bought her so that she could use the wireless in school. In the end, she took the computer and chased me out of the room. I blew up at her and threatened to slap her and discipline her. Some of the things she said, I won't repeat. I'm still extremely angry at her. I'm writing this at 1.41am in the morning because I had to wait till she's done. I really don't know what to say, and I don't have anywhere to vent. I'm still extremely tempted to go slap her across her smug face. I've seldom felt this angry at anyone, only once in a long time, but this was really the last straw. I've put a password on my computer, so that only I get to use it and she has to get permission.

Arggh, this is a really shitty way to end an extremely good day. I've had a good day training for frisbee and hanging out with my frisbee friends till around 10.00pm. We were training at NUS, and practising hucks (long throws) and dumping (passing the disc for short distance to reset the stall count). It was a 4 and a half hour long training. Then we went to Holland Village to have dinner and also to Coffee Club for dessert. The muddy mud pie was great, despite being really rich and I was really full. We had to share it among 3 people. I was looking forward to a good night talking to my friends online about our week, which was fully spoilt by my stupid, selfish sister. Now, I've to go get a router to split my internet with my sister, so that she can use her own computer and not mess with mine.

I wish I had a place to vent my anger. Pent up anger is one of the worst feelings ever and I've such a hot temper. I feel like I'm so stifled here that I'm going to burst, but I can't, because my parents would start shouting at me. I need to find a freaking beach or a place I can easily get to and scream my head off. Maybe my blog is a way to vent, but it's too intellectual and not emotionally charged. Haizzz.

Update on the week

I'm officially bored. Quite bored actually. I spend most of my days watching anime (Flame of Recca) and playing Warcraft. The only difference I get is who I can actually call to hang out at different times.

Monday was actually a little better, because I went to the beach to meet Joyce and threw frisbee with her. I need lots of work on throwing, so I just practiced for over an hour. We then had satay, took a long walk and talked about frisbee techniques and skill work. We then picked up Seiwei and Kristina Tom for supper. Actually, Seiwei was so tired he went home by himself first. The three of us picked up Gwendoline (Seiwei's youngest sister) and her friend and went to eat roti prata at Upper Thomson. It was pretty good, the crispy prata. So Monday was a good break from the usual.

Tuesday was boring. Tuition at night. Wednesday was pickup frisbee, which is always good. The running around is what I need to stop my freaking boredom. It's always so nice to be running your heart out, chasing something down. And beating someone to the disc.

Thursday was having lunch with my family, coz it was my mom's birthday. We went to Seoul Garden at Bugis. It was just normal. I ate only meat, like a guy should at a buffet like that. Then I went back to sleep before tuition that night.

Friday was not too different, except I had dinner with Jason and Shuzhen and Valerie at the hawker center next to the Esplanade. It was not too good food for 50% higher price. Not going to go there again. Too few selections. We then headed to Haagen Dazz for good ice cream. Jason likes fruity flavors, as 2 weeks in a row, he had a fruity type ice cream. I had my loads of chocolate again! 3 different scoops of pure chocolate ice cream! Yumyum! Shuzhen had a mix, of different sweet types. After I headed home, I talked to Steph online till 5 in the morning, which is around 10pm in England. I was so sleepy by then.

Saturday was tuition in the afternoon, before I rushed to NUS to play more frisbee. It took an hour to get there from Tanah Merah. Sheeshh. But the game was fun. I made less mistakes than on Wednesday. Dinner was at some food center on Mei Ling Street in Queenstown. We had chicken rice. It was really good stuff! Sweet payed for it, how nice of him! We also had good claypot rice. There were 3 guys at our table and we ate more food than the next table who had 3 guys and 3 girls. Might want to go back again for the claypot rice and chicken rice. Got a message from Eunice Lee to go dancing at Harry's. But was too tired and went home instead.

Sunday was church, and we were doing Revelations 17, 18, 19. It was really heavy stuff, on how the world and many cities are built to glorify man's achievements rather than God's and how men are lured and seduce by riches and the worldly things. That we have a choice to choose God's wedding banquet instead of drinking out of the "prostitute's" cup. Need to digest more on that. I'm also reading "Defending your Faith", which proves through evidence and historical stuff about the inerrancy of the Bible and the fact the Jesus is in fact God's human form. It's a very interesting read and I'm learning lots through it.

My students for tuition backed out on me for tuition today. One went back to Indonesia without even telling me, making me go there and there was no one. Pissed me off really badly. I'll call him about that and probably give him a warning on that. My second one just changed his lesson to Monday, so more like a postponement. It's okay, as he calls to tell me. I'm flexible at the moment too, so that's fine. Ah, I really hate students who take you for granted that they will not inform you about what goes on and make you wait outside their door and waste your time. I'll probably charge the student a flat fee of $20.00 everytime something like that happens. Irresponsibility is something I detest more than anything else, in line with betrayal.

2 more weeks to enlistment. Hopefully things will be better.

Pes Status! C9L3

So yay! I finally got my PES status, which is my medical status from the army. It's C9L3. It means that I don't have to do the annual IPPT fitness test and I am "able to bear firearms and protect themselves, others and property." I can also be "deployed in MSA or service support formation/units." All this just means that I'll probably be a project clerk somewhere in the immense machinery that the Ministry of Defence is.

3 more weeks to enlisting! I think...