A bed of roses & their thorns

Being back at AC certainly gave me a sense of hapless dejavu...sitting there behind the college choir amongst the midst of alumni members and relief teachers from my batch. We sat there, listening to the devotions and then later to the announcements for the day. Term examinations for the J1s, recruitment for cip...dejavu.

We went back to see Mdm as the VP for the last time. It was a sad moment...yet it wuz nice to see all those who we have not seen in ages coming back together at the college.

Ah well, AEWF is tmr night! Time flies. I'm sick. Yeah juz this morning i work up finding that i have lost my voice. But i believe in miracles. Haha slowly recovering so hence struck down but not destroyed is she. Pls pray for me and see all u people who are heading down tmr for a night of great music making.

 
Everybody sauntering to their first class venue...what's the hurry right..

  

 
Laoshi, Ms chia and mdm with her bouquet

 
Now u see me and my dratted bag..shdn't have put it there...ruined the shot...

 
And now u don't:) If u r in the pic u may copy it...cuz i don't think i will send to everybody:P sorry... 

 
Gina, bert, mel geow and sheryl, posing at the same time..

 
Mdm with her ex-students:) 

I'm at work now and blogging!! Ah this feels extremely illegal and unorthadoxed in terms of work...but I'm all alone and vaguely bored. Boo...don't get to watch X men with mindy and the rest tonight...sigh next time ah call my house phone, don't carry my cellphone everywhere you know...

Anyway I came across this extremely interesting article while skimming through the papers today during lunch. It was about the controversial topic of religion with certain references to the cult phenomena, The Da Vinci Code. Haven't read it and don't particularly intent to anywayz.

If you have Today go check it out...it's entitled Code for Muslims if I'm not wrong. I quote a small segment that really struck me:

"The point is that people's impressions of a religion are often related to the behaviour of its adherents. Some religions are thought of as simply kooky because it's followers behave strangely. Some are viewed as benign and peaceful because its followers resolutely will not harm a fly. But when people, supposedly in the name of religion, riot, burn and kill, it can't help but give the impression of a religion that advocates this, no matter how much we point out that nowhere in religious texts itself does it say you should do this."

Ha...food for thought so indeed one lives as he or she preaches lest you taint the name of the thing you attest to believe in. Really go read the article if you have the time!!

Met up with joey and chua on sat at essential brews oh yes and Mel geow popped in for a while too. Nice to see you guys again. Sigh...I miss flickr. The pics on picasa look wierd when I change the width and height...it seems out of focus and blurred what a bummer:p Can't wait to upload again on flickr.

Anywayz...Really enjoyed last sat's choir prac. We had e chance to perform to e college choir and vice versa. I wuz really blown away by their repertoir. O Natus and Janger were my fave. You know the thing is, despite being in alumni I don't think I'm all that seasoned yet. There's still lots to learn. And the college choir's performance reminded me of the magic in music making. Thank you. I'm really excited for AEWF...hope to see loads of people there.

 
Joey quek...sorry if this looks bad...there aren't many good sides to joey.

  

 
Chua is shy...

 
Me and Chua. Courtesy of Joey quek. 

 
Chua's spaghetti at Essential Brews

 
Lianlin's pasta...haha at dome..everybody is gg Italian. 

 
At dome on sunday:)

 
My smoked salmon and avocado with cheese tortilla. Admittedly it didn't look very appetizing on my plate either...but it tasted good.. 

 
Finger food basket we all shared. Chicken wings, onion rings, fish fingers and wedges.

 
Jamie's chocolate cake:) We had it at Cedele, Raffles Place.

I vote we go there this sat! 

 
Up close, Lianglin's pasta...

 
A blur ll against a sharp Jamie:) 

Yay, finally got these pics uploaded. Yup these are some pics to sum up my trip to little india with miss mindy and we also trawled e city area. Haha, mindy let's go somewhere else real soon:)

 
I like cats. It's colour is lovely.

 
The garlands smelt really nice:)

 
Really like the colours involved in this one...the contrast is interesting. Alleyway in LI. 

 

 
I kinda wondered what the leaves were for.

 
We were in a shop selling some really pretty Indian jewellery, decoratives and what not. 

 
Mindy trying it on and decided on impulse to buy it:) It's pink and pretty...not very mindy..

 
Despite her dislike to be photographed...I still persisted...haha..took her through the view of some bangles hanging in front of me.

 
I like this shot much more than the darker version with the milo looking more choclatey...it gives it a very happy feel.

 
Our silouhettes:) This wuz at the city area...going towards the arthouse. And so endeth our little trip:) 

I think i'm really blessed to usually get nice bosses. The current job im holding has it's own ups and downs...but I do like it. It's stressful because one careless move of typing the wrong word, letter or number could really have dire consequences. I'm currently temping as a PA to a really nice man and yeah...because he is computer illiterate I handle all his incoming and outgoing emails. It's really quite scary when he asks you to type an email to his broker...oh my the thought of typing the wrong figures for the number of shares to buy makes me realise the importance of being really careful.

Anywayz, tt aside...changed the blogskin. It's to accomodate the sizes of my pics...now the pixels are much larger. Ah..but i didn't know tt flickr has a limit to the number of photos that can be uploaded per mth...sobz. So tt means I can't put up e little india pics i took when i went with mindee. Boo.

Anyway...since im free and feel sleepy and random here is a shot of the sky on our way to watch David and Johnathan's b'dae concert...



I'm for some reason, feel really thankful for whatever I have at this pt of time:)

This week wuz so uber slack. Had a nice long break, no work for week...so went around playing with e cam. It was fun:) Anyway here r some photos i personally like quite alot:)

Swimming Gala at ISS. It wuz my first day out with e cam...but it wuz cloudy. Being a newbie, i relied on the weather to take e photos...so it turned out ok. Played around with white balance for this one, but mainly stuck to auto. The kids r really cute...haha shd pop by e other international sch i used to work with to take some photos of em!



She looks so radiant and shy:)



This is matt! Very hyper kid.





Admittedly, this pic looks rather dull but i like her silouhette.



They were playing this game called fish nets. haha quite fun lah played with them before.

Yupz, so tt's e swimming gala for you. Then on monday decided to take a trip round my estate to really play around with e manual mode...rather hard but managed to get a hang of it:) Btw, i love macro photography.



neighbour's pink rose.



Taking this pic properly really drove me nuts. Stood there for close to ten minutes...the sky is actually rather over-exposed...haha, it wuz not so bright..but for e sake of e flower...i didn't want a silouhette.



i like e background!



Pretty rose...



Forlorn rose.

There is more to come:)