Essays!! It has been a long long time since I wrote essays and finally the day for me to write essays again has come today. Real Estate LAw exam today, after writing one essay, I could feel my fingers getting sore but somehow still managed to pull thru the 2 hours. :) 2 papers down so far, 3 to go. Cant wait for Thursday to come and for it to be over, gotta do Japanese Studies and Calculus. Though one module is MCQ and the other S/U already, I am rushing for time to complete studyin for this 2 mods. Bear with it, Kelvin!
















Cool photo rite? LaSallian spirit! Done by the boys from my Cat Class using tealights. Ora Et LAbora (Pray and Work)!

It was a great weekend spent and really I must thank a lot people. I shall start with Friday - attended Exam Mass - Fr Val and Fr Simon celebrated mass. But before that, i met Fr Val at the carpark and he asked me 'so considering to join brotherhood or priesthood?' super random man. But dun think so at this moment. Fr Simon gave a superb sermon on exams - to visualize, actualize and prayerlize. It connected so much with me cos the last time that I actually had that strong belief was way back during the O level period. Its the kind of feeling where you know that you have done your best and really God will do the rest and HE will not disappoint you. Hopefully I will be able to have that kind of feeling again. After mass, there was praying over for those who wish to be prayed over. I saw many people resting in the spirit and I really wanted to go forward to just experience it but I guess I was afraid and probably wasnt prepared or in the mood at all, so I just stood at the back at the LT and watch and I just couldnt bring myself to walk down the stairs. Oh well, will see how during YISS next year.

Somebody once said this to me, the day you turn 21, the happiest people are actually your parents. So before I thank anyone else, I really really just wanna thank by dear parents, for all they had done for me and for all the love they showered upon me.

Usually, I just spent my birthday with my close friends, so I didnt really think of throwing a party and exams are just one week ahead. But seriously, when the clock struck 00:00am, I really had a big group of people with me. The CSS community was with me! :) Mostly Artz people but am really glad to have their company at that point in time. Thank you everyone who was there. There are too many to name all here but I really wanna thank Steph, Moses, Magic Mark, Matthew, Ewen (think got more but I dunno) for spending time to buy presents for the November Babies (Anthony, Rachael , Adeline and myself). My dear Artz Comm - Steph, Fel, Adeline, Moses and Brian and of cos Fr. Val - I am really glad thaT I am in such a great Comm with such wonderful people like you guyz!. And the photo is really nice man! And also Thursday CG peeps - Thanks for the present and of course thanks for all the sharing all the past sem, it was a great semester spent with all the CSS people and it has really make a difference in my uni life. :)




Thursday CG!

My SJI buddies - Russell, Joe, Josiah, Nic Foo, IaN, Chris Yeoh and Mervyn. Been eating a lot over the weekend, thank you russ, joe n rosie for a great dinner at Lawry's. Finally our dream to dine there have come true. haha It was a great evening spent and I really had a good laugh esp with Joe's driving and all the games. Nic Foo and Ian, great to have long distance chat with you guys over the phone. :) And chris and mervyn, great lunch at Hard Rock and I was totally pai seh there man. :)

The gals! haha. Lydia, Trina, PEi Ling and Xiao Wei - Thanks for your presents and of cos for your great company!!

My church mates - Russell, Danielle, Darius, Gladys, Felicia and Con 3a. Thanks for all your greetings and Danielle your brownies are superb!!

Fun fun fun... been having too much fun. Cant wait for exams to be over!! And I am so glad some of my class teens came for mass together today. Just sms a few of them yesterday and the turn out was good. A community that prays together stays together. Some of them are not regular mass goers but hopefully with company of friends, they will attend mass together. Hope this is just the start and more will join in the weeks to come. Really glad to see them bond so well. Amen!

So 21 here I come......

Think this is gonna be a long post - post confirmation camp 2006 reflections.

Went to Johore for Con camp over the weekend and I am so glad I actually decided to go even though I was rather reluctant at first due to exams being round the corner. I have learnt so so much from this camp compared to last year. I was touched by the teens, by the facils and by God. Not in the very dramatic sense, just very subtle somewhere in my heart.

All of the Con 3 catechists were actually kinda busy with work and school, planning was basically left to russell, nick and me (actually i only did my part).. Seriously, thank you Russ for all e effort you put in for camp and helping me out when i was really busy with other stuff. You have been a great friend and really thank God for yet another camp spent with ya. From being students attending camps in SJI to being catechist/facils now. Thank you!!

Now let me talk about the camp proper - My dear Con 3a. They have been a source of motivation for me. I really really wanted to bring them closer to God and really let them understand e meaning of confirmation. Through all the sharing sessions, though they didnt really share their inner most feelings, I could see that they were ready - they knew exactly what they wanted to do as catholics after confirmation. 8 of them wanna join catechist ministry next year!!!!! Of course, it is not all of them. There are still a handful that i didnt manage to reach out to perhaps its because i made a mistake with the groupings. Nonetheless, seeing teens like solomon and simon finally opening up from their comfort zone and getting closer to the rest of the class really put a smile on my face. I really do not know how to express the joy but ya it just feels nice and heart warming esp to c solomon so enthu about the class bbq. I just mentioned about class bbq and the teens were really enthu about it. Sleeping in the same bunk with the teens at night was really amusing, all e gossiping on which gal is chio and their own little crushes. But well, such sharing brings people closer together. After Con camp, went for lunch with a group of them, was so surprised that solomon joined us (think his mum will be soooo glaD to see her son growing closer to God and his friends), after lunch really wanted to go home but they kept persuding me n fel to join them to arcade for awhile... Then we went to watch movie somemore, though i fell asleep, the fellowship was superb and I felt like I was baby sitting a bunch of hyper active kids. Well, I am really thankful for being able to just live a little mark in their lives at this point and i really 'lovez lovez themz lotz lotz' (tts what they always say man).

Next - Facils. Firstly, I must thank Felicia for being a great and wonderful facil for my class. Think her group and my group really 'lovez lovez her lotz lotz' also. Thank you for so willingly help me type mass slides in the late night and helping out whenever possible like P and W etc. You have brought much joy n laughter to the camp too - once again - thank you aunty brownie!
Russell - as mentioned above plus you have been a superb facil too. LEts keep the passion in us burning bright - 'Remember to keep passing on the passion'. I believe you too have inspired and touched the teens in your class too. Thanks for being always around and yup, heres a toast to our friendship again.
Gladys - I am sooooooooo glad you came and help us out as a facil. Really so happy to see you bonding so well with your group. Who says you cant connect with 15 y/o? Well, you did it. Hope you do come back and teach catechism soon man. I can see that love and concern you have for the teens. So hope you do consider.
Seriously, I hAVE also learnt a lot from the other facils during this camp, esp from nick, fiona, gerard and basil in their own ways.

And finally - God! I have learnt so much abt myself. I realised that I am not so afraid of using a mike and speak to a large audience. I was kinda afraid at least, but surprisingly i managed to put it off okay i think. :) I realised that I sux at AV stuff. Our AV set pang sei us and we spent almost 3 hours trying to fix it. I didnt fix it, basil and gerard did. They were great man, know what to connect to what, this wire go where and that plug fix where etc. So i decided to upgrade myself in this area. And i realised that just when you think that things were going wrong and God doesnt bother, HE actually does! The AV was fixed just in time and everything went on smoothly and though our P and W team was not around this year and we had to make do with wadever we had, the teens didnt mind and were actually damn enthu abt it. HE works in his ways i believe.

And so this marks the end of Con 3 camp 06 but the memories remain. Looking forward to bbq next month and their confirmation next year but so now time to focus on what is really important now - EXAMS. I shall do my best and leave it in his hands!!!

The gift of family! I have a great dinner with my family yesterday with steam garlic lobster, salted egg crab, mango prawns etc.. seafood feast man plus superb red wine to go along. Though the food was good, i actually miss the company of spending time together as a family. Been a long long time since i really sat down have a good conversational dinner with my family, uncle and aunties. Though i have always been so busy with my own life, there are still ever so concern about me. ReaLLY am thankful for the family i have.

Didnt go to school today, wanted to stay at home to study but was really unproductive. Couldnt really concentrate. Really gonna park myself in the library till late or i will not get any work done. Going for Confirmation Camp this weekend in Malaysia, together with Russell and Felicia. Anyway, sincere thanks to Fel for being so willing to help us out with the camp even though exams are around the corner. So thank you again! Was just telling them that i am actually not in e mood or mindset for a con camp, perhaps too caught up with school already. Fel suggested going for confession first but oh well no time to do that. So i shall just pray and hope that it will be a fruitful and a safe camp. And i musnt have camp lag after that, needa start mugging.