Enticing Sale Fail.

While out on my usual rounds of online window shopping this afternoon, I came across this wonderfully "discounted" item.

Lol. Marketing fail too?

twinkle twinkle little stars

This is what kept me busy for 4 hours straight. From 1.30 am - 5.30 am in the morning. =__=

I had 7 sheets of coloured paper - each the size of 50 X 70 cm. I had to cut strips of 4 cm width, join 2 long strips together, fold them to the shape of an origami star, and press them into shape. While I was doing that, I was watching the 1970's 'Aristocats' as well. *chuckle* I needed something to keep me awake for that long! Btw, these stars were made for a little fair held by the children's ministry at Coos.

So after the grueling and pretty mundane process, the stars were finally complete! Yay!! :D Here they are, all 39 of them :)

This is what's left at the end of it. I guess the hot picks were the yellow and orange ones! I think I might string them up with some nylon and hang them at my door or something.

*~Happy Christmas!~*

0_0

I heard news about 2 people who passed on within the same day.
1 of an autistic boy who committed suicide.
The other of my late grandma's sister.

:(

While one is perplexing, the other just feels like. hmm. almost nothing, yet quite sad at the same time. I just remember her girth, and calling her 'Yi-por'.

And I passed by 2 funerals today too!
What gives?

happy holidays

My holidays have unofficially officially started!! (It was supposed to start 3 weeks back but had unofficial studio days till my tutor left for his own vacation. Yay!!)

I was extremely stressed out on fri-sat, having been trying to make models on Friday, but for the life of me, couldn't get anything out that was worthy of a studio session. I was experimenting with the properties of materials - ok it's not so technical, but I had to find out which plastics could melt and which couldn't, which metals I could solder and which couldn't, etc etc. So it was all this experimenting and getting frustrated and ultimately NOT getting a 'dynamic' model out. BARF.

It was also very tiring for me - having really late nights / no sleep at all at least once a week for several weeks and my enthusiasm for design was running on near zero. Fortunately, E and H decided that they'd cook up a story to explain my non-presence for studio. *whew*

So N and I went out and enjoyed ourselves immensely on Sat night and the whole of Sunday. :) We went to TM to get a bunch of Christmas presents for his sunday-school kids and family, and I got to help him choose gifts and basically unwind. Wheeee~

Sunday was especially great - I was still feeling frazzled from the crazy school work and stress, and N was feeling crappy abt work and some other personal matters. In any case, we still went for church service.

I strained my hip a couple of days back - after rushing up a flight of stairs and it suddenly got injured and though the pain was periodic, but it was nagging and still painful nonetheless. N remarked about how I should just go upfront during service so that someone could pray for me whether or not my symptoms were prophesized. ( Ok I'm not doing a really good job at explaining this, but basically right after worship, some pastors would go upfront and say "whoever has a back / hip / shoulderache or some other maladies / I sense someone with a defeated spirit" that kind of thing, and people would go up front so that other pastors would pray for them).

The best thing was that a pastor prophesized for both of us, so we went up together. I got prayed for by this guy called Shaun / Shawn / Sean and he prayed for my hip. My hip felt warm and fuzzy during the prayer and after praying for abt 5 mins, he told me to test my hip out, since I wasn't sure that my hip was entirely healed. So I did a couple of rather extreme twists and turns and felt as if my hip joint had been oiled and as if nothing had happened at all! Praise the Lord for this miraculous healing! :D

I was so glad that God healed me, but I was still curious as to why I sustained that injury out of the blue. Shaun mentioned that these kind of physical inflictions may have no definite explanations and that some of them can only be defined within the spiritual realm. I knew that there was a cause for my injury and only realised it when N replied "It's because you were getting too stressed and allowed the evil spirits to get to you". It was then that it dawned on me that God was trying to get me to turn to Him and put everything in His hands and not get too flustered by stressful situations.

After the service, I still felt like that there were pains in my hip, but I quickly brushed them aside and continually told myself that "God has healed my hip. Back off you demons!" That carried on for the whole day and I'm glad to declare that there's no more pain left! :D

Besides the wonderful healing I received on Sunday, N's parents, N and I went for a dim sum lunch at AMK and did the usual grocery shopping at the supermarket. N went for a swim as I headed back home, and later met at TM - where I basically went mad. Hurhur. So anyway - my bag obsession was satisfied, N's Christmas obligations were met and it felt really good to just spend the entire day with a loved one. :)

Psst! I got a NLT bible from N as a Xmas gift~

Inspiration

"Cast your cares on the Lord and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous fall."
(*Psalms 55:22)

This is the memory verse pasted on a nice green piece of cardboard given to my brother by his cell leader. But somehow I feel that God has planted it there for me to speak to me when I most need it.

There are many things that are hovering around me now. But I am glad that God has sustained me through this tough times. I know C is also facing a lot of stress now, so this verse is also dedicated to you my dear.

I know it is difficult, but let us walk this dusty road together hand in hand.

splendid sunsets

Since it's my blog birthday today, I shall put up some lovely pictures of various sunsets I took over the past 2 weeks or so. Never have I seen such a continual series of rather brilliant light shows before :)

22 Nov '08

23 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

29 Nov 08

Crescent moon and stars :) I think it might be Venus and Jupiter instead~

iron-WO-man

I spent a good part of the day (2.5 hrs in fact!) sleeping away the most excruciating pain I face every month. I'm sure you can guess what's happened. Haha.

So anyway there I was, huddled like a fetus, with cushy comforting pillows squished all around me, trying to breathe normally, and just praying that the pain would go away. It went on for about say..30-40 mins before it dissipated and tired out from the intensity, I slept like a baby for the rest of the time.

During the period I was half awake with the room spinning right before my eyes, I was wondering about the pain pregnant women all over the world experience prior to actually giving birth; where they go ha-ha-hoo, ha-ha-hoooooooo, practising whatever they've learnt in pre-natal class and pushing their limits of tolerance of pain.

It scared me! Just thinking about the agony they face, from a few minutes to a few hours, having tubes, drips and the like stuck in every possible nook and cranny in your body, to doctors telling you instructions ( i think!) and trying to remember it all in while your brain melts to butter and leaks out of your ears. Eeks! Not to mention, exposing the most intimate parts of your body to everyone without a care in the world because you JUST WANT TO GET THE BABY OUT! Lol. Then again, I may just be over-imagining things. I'm sure mommies experience a sense of sheer, unexplainable joy and relief the moment they hear their babies wail. Oh well. Only time will tell, and I'll possibly update this post in a few years to come! Haha. First though, I have to graduate, get a job, and get hitched! Hehe.

And there was light!

This is how I've been working for the past weeks leading to submission. I can't stand florescent brightly-lit rooms while working. It makes me feel fidgety, tired and I'm extremely anal when it comes to light conditions. A simple Ikea lamp and Osram lightbulb (energy saver!) does the trick nicely :) Plus my trusty samsung printer to the right of the picture :D

As I'm typing this, I've mysteriously acquired a red eye - I just finished bathing and it suddenly got really itchy. But I've washed it with Optrex so now it just feels swollen and puffy. GREAT. My sasa said "Did u just watch old men pee pee?" (=___=)