New Year's Eve...

I am STILL sick. I feel like the past two weeks I've been living in a fish bowl...

But I'm going to use every ounce of energy, every breath, every atom in my body to do my best for the last performance of 2007!!!!

Who wants to end of 2007 on a bad performance.

I'm going to go blow my nose out clean.

Shit, I'm really worried. Sigh.

OK! 那首歌... here i come!!!!!

Event: 2008 Countdown Party
Timing: 10pm-late?
Venue: Hong Kah North CC, 30 Bukit Batok St 31

ENJOY the LAST MOMENTS of 2007!!!!
I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!

My nose feels as though it has got mashmallows stuck up its chimmney.
everything from neck up feels stuffy.. i can hardly articulate my "n's" from the "m's" properly. HAha... In this condition, guess what i am most inspired to do?

*drumrolls*

I am most insipred to do a rendition of the song 那首歌 by 林Yoga!

Then again... I'm too breathless. Oh ferged it. I'm going out to try get some air... that should do me messed up respiratory system some good.

Two days after christmas...

I am still in a bad state. Haha. I saw the doctor one more time yesterday and got another new and stronger course of antibiotics. My body is obviously not putting up a good fight to the dreaded viruses. On a good note however, being sick made me realise how much importance i place in christmas... and lying home sick on my bed on Christmas day made me more of a grouch than all the scrooges in the world added up. Boo... I was a grouch, a sickly grouch on christmas day.

Oh but on a happier note! I got a christmas prezzie from N (I caught on with this acronym thing from his blog.... haha)! In fact, all three of us... J, C and Me each got a christmas prezzie from N!
Hooray! That kinda made my grouchy sickly christmas day alot better. And i all i had to do was briefly mumble under my breath in a voice that i thought was barely audible...

"i want balloons..."

"you want balloon? I buy balloon for you..."

It was very very sweet. And it was triple the sweetness and moolah because he had to buy balloons for all three of us. Yay! Three happy girls indeed. Oh but i'm so sorry N, we didn't make it to the movies. But let's do it sometime soon yea!

So I still had a rather memorable christmas day 2008. =)

What did you all do?

And since i was sick from the two days before christmas till the second day after christmas(and counting). Today, I have dragged myself out of bed early(its early because i only finished my FYP shoot at 12am last night.) to blog and to go attempt do some really belated christmas shopping!

HOpefully i don't end up spreading my christmas germs to even more people out there. Haha...

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only begotten son. That whoever believed in him, shall not perish but have eternal life." - John 3:16

Have a blessed last few days of 2007 and i'll see you peeps at Hougang Mall on the 31st afternoon and Hong Kah CC sometime before midnight for countdown ok! Let's make the 31st a helluva memorable one since 2007 has been such a roller coaster ride! Take care!


Sidenote:
Sha Mo's still hasn't made it into the top 6 ranks of S-pop... Do vote or it if you like the song ok? I messaged my composer the other day asking her to jiayou with the song and she replied 2 days later saying

"Hee... In china now. How y u? Anything just drop me an email ya? Well OUR song not gettin many votes but i guess its ok. Im very content w what has happened already =)"

If you see this Chen Huan, I hope you had a good christmas! And I still do hope that OUR song gets in! And that i'm also very contended to have met someone like you and having the honour to sing the song for you! GO LOLITA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Christmas Grocery shopping!
I think i over-exerted myself this last month of 2007,
I made tons of pasta, two huge turkeys all the way from 5pm till 5am.
To leb, ash, Quan and roanna, sorry for that pre-christmas outburst.

My Christmas prezzie!!!!

Post christmas FYP supper with my dearest Brownian Motions.
Merry Christmas you guys... =)

Pre-christmas filming outside Heeren! Haha...
poor Biren jie, heavily pregnant but still on shoot, in the rain,
thank god for the chair and the umbrella!

And finally, to Sim Yunying! Don't let anything get you down yeah...
I know I'm always MIA-ing but i'll always be around for you!
Jia you! Merry CHRISTMAS!

Christmas Blessing

Got this off daniel yan's blog.

I couldn't stop tearing after reading it... Just wanted to share it with all of you here. =)


The Pastor and his son

A good reminder of God's Love.

Every Sunday afternoon, after the morning service at the church, the Pastor and his eleven year old son would go out into their town and hand out Gospel Tracts.

This particular Sunday afternoon, as it came time for the Pastor and his son to go to the streets with their tracts, it was very cold outside, as well as pouring down rain. The boy bundled up in his warmest and driest clothes and said, 'OK, dad, I'm ready.'

His Pastor dad asked, 'Ready for what?'

'Dad, it's time we gather our tracts together and go out.' Dad responds, 'Son, it's very cold outside and it's pouring down rain.'

The boy gives his dad a surprised look, asking, 'But Dad, aren't people still going to Hell, even though it's raining?'

Dad answers, 'Son, I am not going out in this weather.' Despondently, the boy asks, 'Dad, can I go? Please?'

His father hesitated for a moment then said, 'Son, you can go. Here are the tracts, be careful son.'

'Thanks
Dad!'

And with that, he was off and out into the rain. his eleven year old boy walked the streets of the town going door to door and handing everybody he met in the street a Gospel Tract.

After two hours of walking in the rain, he was soaking, bone-chilled wet
and down to his VERY LAST TRACT. He stopped on a corner and looked for someone to hand a tract to, but the streets were totally deserted.

Then he turned toward the first home he saw and started up the sidewalk to the front door and rang the door bell. He rang the bell, but nobody answered. He rang it again and again, but still no one answered. He waited but still no answer.

Finally, this eleven year old trooper turned to leave, but something stopped him. Again, he turned to the door and rang the bell and knocked loudly on the door with his fist. He waited, something holding him there on the front porch! He rang again and this time the door slowly opened. Standing in the doorway was a very sad-looking elderly lady. She softly asked, 'What can I do for you, son?' With radiant eyes and a smile that lit up her world, this little boy said, 'Ma'am, I'm sorry if I disturbed you, but I just want to tell you that *JESUS REALLY DOES LOVE YOU* and I came to give you my very last Gospel Tract which will tell you all about JESUS and His great LOVE.'

With that, he handed her his last tract and turned to leave. She called to him as he departed. 'Thank you, son! And God Bless You!'

Well, the following Sunday morning in church Pastor Dad was in the pulpit. As the service began, he asked, 'Does anybody have any testimony or want to say anything?'

Slowly, in the back row of the church, an elderly lady stood to her feet. As she began to speak, a look of glorious radiance came from her face, 'No one in this church knows me. I've never been here before. You see, before last Sunday I was not a Christian. My husband passed on some time ago, leaving me totally alone in this world. Last Sunday, being a particularly cold and rainy day, it was even more so in my heart that I came to the end of the line where I no longer had any hope or will to live.

So I took a rope and a chair and ascended the stairway into the attic of my home. I fastened the rope securely to a rafter in the roof, then stood on the chair and fastened the other end of the rope around my neck. Standing on that chair, so lonely and brokenhearted I was about to leap off, when suddenly the loud ringing of my doorbell downstairs startled me. I thought, 'I'll wait a minute, and whoever it is will go away.' I waited and waited, but the ringing doorbell seemed to get louder and
more insistent, and then the person ringing also started knocking loudly. I thought to myself again, 'Who on earth could this be? Nobody ever rings my bell or comes to see me.' I loosened the rope from my neck and started for the front door, all the while the bell rang louder and louder.

When I opened the door and looked I could hardly believe my eyes, for there on my front porch was the most radiant and angelic little boy I had ever seen in my life. His SMILE, oh, I could never describe it to you! The words that came from his mouth caused my heart that had long been dead, TO LEAP TO LIFE as he exclaimed with a cherub-like voice, 'Ma'am, I just came to tell you that JESUS REALLY DOES LOVE YOU.' Then he gave me this Gospel Tract that I now hold in my hand.

As the little angel disappeared back out into the cold and rain, I closed my door and read slowly every word of this Gospel Tract. Then I went up to my attic to get my rope and chair. I wouldn't be needing them any more.

You see---I am now a Happy Child of the KING. Since the address of your church was on the back of this Gospel Tract, I have come here to personally say THANK YOU to God's little angel who came just
in the nick of time and by so doing, spared my soul from an eternity in hell.'

There was not a dry eye in the church. And as shouts of praise and honor to THE KING resounded off the very rafters of the building, Pastor Dad descended from the pulpit to the front pew where the little angel was seated.

He took his son in his arms and sobbed uncontrollably. Probably no church has had a more glorious moment, and probably this universe has never seen a Papa that was more filled with love & honor for his son... Except for One.

Our Father also allowed His Son to go out into a cold and dark world. He received His Son back with joy unspeakable, and as all of heaven shouted praises and honor to The King, the Father sat His beloved Son on a throne far above all principality and power and every name that is named.

Blessed are your eyes for reading this message.

Don't let this message die, read it again and pass it to others. Heaven is for His people!
Remember,
God's message CAN make the difference in the life of someone close to you.

Please share this wonderful message...

'Faith is the affirmation and the act that bids eternal truth be present fact.'
Coleridge


Just 3 Words

Three things
in life that, once gone, never come back -

1. Time
2. Words
3. Opportunity

Three things in life that can destroy a person -

1. Anger
2. Pride
3. Unforgiveness

Three things in life that you should never lose-

1. Hope
2. Peace
3. Honesty

Three things in life that are most valuable -

1. Love
2. Family & Friends
3. Kindness

Three
things in life that are never certain -

1. Fortune
2. Success
3. Dreams

Three things that make a person -

1. Commitment
2. Sincerity
3. Hard work

Three things that are truly constant -

Father - Son - Holy Spirit

I ask the Lord to bless you, as I pray for you today;
to guide you and protect you, as you go along your way.
God's love is always with you, God's promises are true.
And when you give God all your cares,
you know God will see you through.


Pass this along to People you want God to Bless - I just did!


Before i set off to "second home" caldecott hill...

For christmas! My church will be having christmas services where we will presenting a song and a skit! So do come down if you can! For Youths I suggest you come on the 23rd. I'll be there also... Hope to see you for christmas! God bless you all!

Join us on the following dates:

Dec 20 (7.30 pm) - Dialect Service Night
Dec 22 (7.30 pm) - Bilingual Service Night
Dec 23 (7.30 pm) - English Service Night
Dec 24 (7:30 pm) - Caroling

Address
No 159 Sin Ming Road,
#02-02 Amtech Building
Singapore 575625

Sick AGAIN...

Even with all your well wishes and constant reminders asking me to take care and drink loads of water... I still fell sick.

It started three days ago when i thought i felt something irritating the upper palate of my mouth, somewhere close to the throat. I dismissed it as probably food that got stuck there but for the next two days i started to feel it more distinctly, especially when i try to sing or talk. Its as though something is poking at my throat from the inside...

So yesterday I opened my mouth wide in front of my mirror and said "AHHH..." and horrors of horrors! I had a reddish lump with a whitish head in my throat! Damn huge la! I really really freaked out!

But because it was a public holiday, the clinics weren't open... and i normally wait one or two days before seeing the doctor just to make sure its serious. Haha. So i waited...

At night i went down to Zouk at 9pm(haha, my first time in Zouk) to support Lebby at his SIM(Singapore Institute of Management) Pageant. I screamed my lungs out man... Like non-stop, high-pitched,throat-killing,blood-curdling screams. Haha...

AND NO THANKS to my screaming.... LEBBY WON!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lebby is MR SIM!!!!!! HOORAY!!! 全世界不睡觉一起摇！!!!

Tha really made my night... So proud of Leb. =) He was a little stiff and unnatural at the catwalk segment, oooooh but he totally aced the swimsuit and question and answer segment! Haha... I'm really proud to have Lebby as a fellow Solid Rocker. Words cannot describe how i feel even now... one day after the pageant.

Alright, back to my throat.

Next morning, i had to wake up at 5am for my FYP shoot and i was freezing the whole morning. When i finally got to see the doctor at 8.30am, I had two lumps in my throat. But the GOOD thing was that the whitish part was no longer there(in my opinion...the white part is just waaay disturbing. It looked as though my wisdom tooth was growing out of my throat...)

So now i'm on antibiotics and i only just realised that tomorrow is a super long day for me. Helping my boss out in the morning with a Capital 95.8FM one day tour followed by filming of the final episode of mission 4 from 2-6pm @ heeren and back to Caldecott for Sheng Shiong's children competition from 6pm onwards till i don't know when.

Which means i'll miss my church christmas service. Sigh.

One of the major sacrifices I've made amongst many others ever since stepping into this industry. I miss my church.

On a lighter note, there's another Christmas Service on Sunday which I'll (die die) be able to attend! =) So yayness!

Take care y'all and don't get lumps like me!!!!!
And an early Merry Christmas to all of you just in case i don't have time to come up here in the next few days you send you my christmas cheer! HO HO HO!

Here are some photos i took while on FYP shoot today... haven't seen such blue skies in a very long while!

HowTorturousML

I just spent close to 3 hours trying to make sense of what computer geniuses call HTML.

And the fruits of my labour?

Nothing.

Self revelation?

That my old blog template is still the BEST!!!!

Or maybe i'm just saying that to make myself feel better... SIGH.
Did i mention that one of the first 'D' i got in university was for a module in web-designing? Haha, totally not my cup of tea. And it doesn't help that i have no knack for ART, which basically means i always end up putting really weird colours together.

Thank goodness I don't dress myself in crazy colours. Still pretty sane in the fashion department la. haha...

Ok, i basically tried out the new "customise template" function that blogger is offering. But the IRONY here is that although i essentially chose the same template as the one you are LOOKING at now. The HTML looks different! In fact i don't think its called HTML, i think its called XML which if i remember correctly from my classes, is a more advanced(and more torturous to look at) version... correct me if i'm wrong and uninformed. =P

Urgh. And they had all these cool widgets which i would have LOVED to add! Like a poll in which i wanted to ask you guys what you normally do at the void deck, and stuff like links to the tagwords in my entries.

BUT BUT BUT. With the XML thingy, i couldn't put my tagboard and nuffnang ads on the sidebar! I was almost about to give up when i decided to revert it back to the old classic version and try instead to add these cool widgets to the old one instead. That's when i saw Jiaqi and Pam's tag on how they prefered the old template.

That's when i decided "Ah heck it."

A few clicks, and here we are. Back to the good ol' (erm... boring?) template.

Its 4.20am now, and i can't possibly continue with anything now lest i end up playing the female lead in "28 decades later".

Please vote for Chen Huan's song on the S-Pop webbie if you like it! I do hope her song gets through not only because i think its a great song but also because I'd love to perform it again and maybe even film an MTV for it... that would be like a mini-singer-dream come true.

Goodnight then!

My desktop picture at the moment...
I'm pensieve and Daren's just being Bochup.

ORh-yee-Orh!!!

OK sorry for the lack of updates! Lotsa people tagging and asking me to update...

Been really tied up with alot of stuff plus my internet connection is not working! Its been raining alot my 15-year-old house has a leaky roof we've been experiencing sudden power blackouts. Hai...

BUt i like the rainy season!

I think in the process of growing up, many things often change. Even if its not an inherent change.
Like how i hated vegetables, but now i really quite enjoying some greens in my diet. I don't force myself to stomach the greens, I actually enjoy eating them.

And like how i absolutely SWORE by the sun when i was in Secondary and JC, how i totally loved hanging out at SENTOSA or go cycling at Bishan Park. Weirdly, I'm enjoying this rainy season very very much. The cool weather, the pitter patter of rain drops on my bare skin. Been allowing myself to get wet in the rain a couple of times this week... Maybe I'll sing in the rain. Hee..

Lots of fun things have happened recently! Went for the 25th anniversary show that was nerve-wrecking! I wasn't afraid of anything before getting up on stage, in face Carrie and I were still chatting before that and all of a sudden it was our turn! Still i wasn't feeling too nervous or jittery... but the moment i walked out of the huge video screen on stage and saw the turn out in the TV Theatre....

I FREAKED OUT.

*eeek* there's fann wong, there's zoe tay, there's felicia chin, there's joanne peh....

I was performing for all these people in one setting!

Goodness.

I didn't do well at all. I watched a replay and felt i really didn't do well with holding up the tune, but i gave it my all and sang with my heart. So i think overall, as compared to my finals in Superstar, I put in alot more emotions, but i definitely did't do as well in my overall singing. Sigh. Quite disappointed but nevertheless! It was a really really good experience!

HOw often do you get to sing for all these stars you grew up watching!!

Alritey! I know this is sudden but i've got to go now! I'll update again ... I PROMISE! I SOMBAH!

"the rain is coming down in sheets!"

Self Pity

That's probably the one last thing we should do because people only wallow in self pity when they don't get the pity they expect to get from others.

And that's just cheap.

Well, I've been pretty cheap recently. Practicing self-pity without myself even realising. I've simply been too tired. To me, I've just been extremely cranky and grouchy and worrisome, but perhaps to the world out there, I've just been inefficient, incapable of handling stress and wallowing in my own sorrows.

Just woke up from a nice 9 hour long sleep which came as a full-stop to my 48hour lack of sleep previously.

Started the day at 3am yesterday with my mates in hope of catching the sunrise and road sweepers.... but the problem is I STARTED the day without FINISHING the previous. HAha... Rather unfortunately, it seems my group mates all prefered starting without finishing. So i had 3 zombies for company yesterday. Thank goodness for Huimin though, she was the energiser bunny throughout although i know she's really really tired herself.

You know how things just don't seem to be going your way when you absolutely need them to?
Like gmail not functioning, sudden realisation that lap-top charger is somewhere far away when your computer is threatening to hibernate while lots of things are still left undone. And the impending thought that the next day's another long day ahead and there's still alot to prepare for and practice for.

I'm exhuasted to the max. Physically, mentally, emotionally. But it feels good.

Its like i pushed a maximum and now i know i can go further.
(albeit without the self pity... haha)

I know i can be more enduring, more endearing, more lovable, even when i haven't had sleep in the past 48 hours and things are always not going your way.

Its another long day ahead.. S-pop recording and 25th drama anniversary song rehersals....it you wanna watch S-pop today, its at 6pm and i'm sure there'll be tickets available when you go down because i know ivon still has 10 tickets not given out yet!

Alrighty! Time to start of my day with a bang! And keep the positive ions flowing through...!

In the midst of my busy-bee-ness, I woke up one fine early morning at 7.30am for
a meaningful run at ONE LIFE EXPERIENCE run!
Mostly to support Choo Jingyi(a friend who's organising te event)
but also because its for a good cause!