Artist: Graham Colton

Album: Here Right Now

Year: 2007

Lyrics:

With everything I’ve ever done
I’d give it all to everyone for one more day
Another night I’m waking through
Anther door I walk intro
I can’t break

It’s a winding road
It’s a long way home

So don’t wait for someone to tell you it’s too late
Cuz these are the best days
There’s always something tomorrow
So I say let’s make the best of tonight
Here comes the rest of our lives

I count the steps the distance to
The time when it was me and you is so far gone
Another face another friend
Another place another end but I’ll hang on

It’s a winding road
It’s a long way home

So don’t wait for someone to tell you it’s too late
Cuz these are the best days
There’s always something tomorrow
So I say let’s make the best of tonight
Yeah let’s make the best of tonight
Here comes the rest of our lives

It’s a winding road
It’s a long way home

So don’t wait for someone to tell you it’s too late
Cuz these are the best days
There’s always something tomorrow
So I say let’s make the best of it
So don’t wait cuz no-one can tell you it’s too late
Cuz these are the best days
There’s always something tomorrow
So I say let’s make the best of tonight
Yeah let’s make the best of tonight
We’ll make the best of tonight
Here comes the rest of our lives

My mum sent me this email…. It’s one of the most touching things I’ve ever watched. Just like God’s love for us. You will definitely shed tears if you have a heart. Here you go:

A son asked his father, ‘Dad, will you take part in a marathon with me?’The father who, despite having a heart condition, says ‘Yes’. They went on to complete the marathon together.
Father and son went on to join other marathons, the father always saying ‘Yes’ to his son’s request of going through the race together.
One day, the son asked his father, ‘Dad, let’s join the Ironman together.’ To which, his father said ‘Yes’ to.
For those who didn’t know, Ironman is the toughest triathlon ever. The race encompasses three endurance events of a 2.4 mile (3.86 kilometer) ocean swim, followed by a 112 mile (180.2 kilometer) bike ride, and ending with a 26.2 mile (42.195 kilometer) marathon along the coast of the Big Island.

Father and son went on to complete the race together.

Lol. Not literally, but I just got my new Sony VAIO VGN-CR35G in Pure White yesterday afternoon. I wasn’t really feeling that excited as I had been down with flu and running a fever the past 3 days! Going all the way to Funan IT Mall was just too taxing on my lethargic body. But oh well, all was worth it when I found out that the The Big Brands IT Fair @ Funan (Harvey Norman) was giving out quite alot of freebies. Got my laptop for the same price of $1999 and here’s the freebies I snagged:

1. A free upgrade to 3GB RAM worth $99
2. A 2GB Toshiba thumbdrive worth $49
3. Internet security software worth $89
4. A cleaning kit worth $12.90
5. A Sony VAIO carrying case by Targus worth $79
6. 40 free 4R digital prints worth $14
7. A matching mouse and carrying pouch(solid one man!) worth $89 and $99 respectively, for a total of $69

On top of that, I got a go at the lucky draw and picked out a free Harvey Norman Photo Happy membership worth $19.95. With this card, I get 30% off all digital prints and Photo Centre Services. Yaye… printing photos will not be so expensive ever again. I already anticipated all the little freebies but the upgrade to 3GB RAM was a plus. Sony laptops are rarely on promotion.

So, good deal, yes?

Today is another boring day.

All that aside, let me dedicate one entire post to ranting about my awful laptop! A few months ago, my laptop has this charging problem. The adapter would occasionally stop charging my laptop and my laptop would just die after the batt drained out. It’s really sickening as my batt life is not fantastic either. Come on.. it’ nearly 3 years old already! Well, so Rachel helped me buy a new adapter in Malaysia. Only 3 months later (just 3 days after the warranty ended!!!!!! grrr!!), my new adapter konked out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARGH!!!!!! So, I’ve been living with an awfully annoying laptop charger. Thankfully… good news comes soon after a week of enduring this shit. I’m getting a new laptop. Probably going to trade in this old one. I called a few places, but sadly to say, it’s not worth very much now. That’s because Acer is spoiling the market by selling new laptops for freaking cheap. No wonder it has such a short lifespan!

The laptop I have in mind now is the Sony Vaio VGN-CR35G going for $1999. Specs are not bad…shall not bore you with the jargon…and it’s one of the few budget laptops from Sony which actually looks pretty! Looks are important to me (though not as much as the specs…) but if I can have best of both worlds, why not?

Check it out:

Ok.. this weekend has been somewhat boring… I’m was home alone. Rachel went home to KL, Fred went home to his Bedok house, Huey Shan went back to her Johor house. Seems like I’m the only one not going home. I wanna go home…. and slack. This sem is totally horrible. IA eats into the hols… and I’m taking Special Sem. Ok… Special Sem was my own fault. But if I don’t take it, I’ll have heavier load to do in Year 4. Now… minus the IA AUs… I will have 45 AUs left. FYP takes another 10 leaving me with 35 to complete in Year 4. That’s like an average of 4 subjects per sem. I really don’t know how those ppl do it… how can they be left with one or 2 subjects in the final sem? I wish I had that luxury to slack too!

Anyway… so what did I do to past my time? Sleep! I just didn’t bother to wake up till lunch. Haha. You must be thinkning what a lazy bum I am! I played Fred’s PS2… some racing game. See? I’m really bored. Oh yes…. and watched Simpsons, Desperate Housewives and Ugly Betty online. FINALLY THE WRITER’S STRIKE IS OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GLORY HALLELUJAH! Thank God for TV!

Sunday wasn’t too bad though. I had dinner with Paro after like goodness knows how many weeks! Stopped by Popular to grab hold of some cardstock… for my SCRAPBOOKING! You really must check out this site and this one. So many pretty things! Unfortunately though, Scrapbooking in Singapore is an expensive hobby. In Malaysia, materials are so hard to get. I wish I lived in US! Plenty of pretty clothes… plenty of scrapbooking supplies… for Cheap! Cheap! Cheap! God, any chance of me migrating there? I’m suffering a typical case of “grass is always greener on the other side”. Know of a cure? Anyone?

Check out who visited us today at the Airport Operations office today!

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For you ppl who haven’t a clue about what KBOX is, let me enlighten you using just one word - karaoke. A place where you wail sing your lungs heart out. Well… I’m not a very KBOX kind of person… but I sort of had not much of a choice. Boss sort of insisted we go. Even changed the venue so that it would be more affordable for us. Sigh… paiseh… so have to give some face and go.

Didn’t sing much coz it’s pretty much chinese songs. That’s the No. 1 reason why I don’t like to KBOX. It’s not that I don’t like chinese music… I actually do listen to some and I actually can sing a few canto songs. I just don’t really like singing in public unless I’m just humming some song to myself or I’m performing for a Jazz & Blues lunchtime concert. So, pretty much most of the time, I was jut sitting there doing nothing… a bit of talking, attempting to play a racing game on Rooney’s new PSP, drinking that ONE miserable glass of honey lemon, taking random pics and occasionally giving an applause to the singers. What a good way to spend my money rite? (I’m trying to be sarcastic if you haven’t noticed.) I jolly well could have had a pleasant meal at some restaurant, or go to the zoo or bought myself a nice scrapbook magazine! But anyway, since it’s over, I’ll just have to live with it.

More photos here.

Today was amazing… Some time back, Rachel invited me for An Evening Of Worship With PlanetShakers + Tim Hughes organised by Youth Alpha at Singapore Expo. We got priority seat tix to go in which was great, as we didn’t have to queue and dash in for good seats!

However, what was supposed to be a great thing started off rather ugly. We went in early.. waited awhile to pick our seats and finally we took 3 rows for the 33 youth who were coming. So, what we did was sit at the ends of the row to make sure nobody came to take our seats. Awhile later, some aunties and uncles came over. They said “Excuse me” an in to let them pass thru to sit in our row, but I told them that they were taken. Then the aunty said that we were not supposed to reserve seats and bulldozed her way pass us despite our explanation. She even stepped on my foot without bothering to apologise! How mean are they! It saddens me to see such uglyness in adults! Calling themselves Christians summore! Where’s the compassion? The understanding? The respect for others? The generosity? It’s not that there were no other seats. Just behind our rows were full rows of empty seats which they could have taken. Not much of a difference in terms of distance from the stage from our seats. Why did they insist on making a scene? If I were them, I would just save myself the hassle of having to argue with other people.

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Today was a good day. Why? Coz we hardly did any work at all! The Annual Airport Reception was held today at Terminal 3, Check-In Row 1. We interns and our sups were deployed as part time airport guides… :p Haha… joking… but we were supposed to usher the guests. Before going off to do our ushering job, we were being vain in the office. Limei as the chief hairstyler… hahaha… She was french braiding SC and Kim’s hair and gave me and Lydia a twist. Lol… can open shop edi! Anyway, I was stationed at Terminal 3 Departure Hall, just outside Wang’s Cafe. Honestly speaking, I really guided more passengers rather than directing the guests to Check-In Row 1. Thank goodness I could answer all their questions! If not, it would be sooooo embarrassing. Anyway… we were only there for an hour. After that, we went on to join the reception. Just in time for the award ceremony and then FOOD!!!!!!!!!! Here’s a sneak peak of what we had:

Looks good? Well, there was more… sushi, satay, chicken rice, mee goreng, etc… I must say though, that the satay was horrible. Alot of it was not cooked properly and the meat was still rather raw. Yucks! I tried the oyster with Tabasco sauce and ewwwwww… slimey and gross! I can totally imagine Mr Bean’s feelings when he was served with the fresh oysters in the Mr Bean’s Holiday movie.

After our so called fiesta… we just hung around to take pics.

Then… when everything was over, we were told that we could take the flowers that surrounded the stage. So, there was the mad rush for the prettiest roses and sunflowers! I took some roses myself but decided to do without the sunflowers. Never really my preference when it comes to flowers.

We really didn’t do much work after the event ended. We were still kind of hungry after eating only the finger food and sushi, so we went for second round at Auntie Annes. Ezza treated some of us to Subway cookies while some others had Auntie Anne’s pretzels. We just sat there and slacked for quite a bit of time. Back in the office, since everyone was obsessed with their flowers, Lydia and I shamelessly brought our flowers to her florist friend downstairs to ask her to help us arrange them in a nice bouquet.

More photos here.

You wouldn’t believe the number of books we bought today! Paro and I went to Orchard today coz I wanted to check out the Creaking Keepsakes magazine in Borders or Kinokuniya. She also wanted to spend off her Popular Bookstore vouchers. Kino is like a reader’s heaven (…provided we don’t have to pay for the books. Otherwise, it is capable of making you totally broke!). Initially, we planned to go pick out come books and browse through them at the cafe there. But aparently, they don’t allow browsing there anymore. In this aspect, Borders is much more generous. I was checking out the piano scores there. Plenty! More than I can imagine. But it’s sooooooooooooooo expensive! Most of the books are at least $30. Ok, poor student like me can’t afford to buy. Just look longingly… Haha….

Later on, we checked out some Agatha Christie.

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