nothing to blog about!!

i so wanna blog.. but there's nothing to write about la.. haha.. let's see.. went to bed at 2.30 i think.. after doing my quiet time.. got an sms from ern chee this morning asking me out to lunch.. she's on swot break, but i'm not.. :( i've got classes this whole week, and 2 classes of psychology next week then its exam time!! 17 days till exams, 30 days till i'm going home.. i used to wanna go home so bad, but now that i've made some really awesome friends here, i kinda dont wanna leave.. haha.. i'll miss them for the 3 months i'm away.. :( come to s'pore to visit me ok?? hehe.. hmm.. i was wondering if i should cut my hair short again, or if i should grow it out and either perm it or straighten it.. any suggestions anyone??? oh wells.. guess i should get back to studying.. i'm hating the 1 hour shift cos of daylight saving.. makes the time diff between here and s'pore ridiculous!! ok, i'm outta here.. have a great week people.. love ya!!

p.s.: if you happen to read this Lok Ing, i hope u get better soon hun :) *hugs*

the past..

ok, so i was looking at all the items under my 'Favourites' section, and i came across the link to abbie's photo album.. found some pics from SAJC's Rapture night, 2005.. they put up an amazing dance performance.. anyway, was looking at the pics abbie and i took in the car when we were driving her home.. i remember my mum was in the front seat and was like "girls, what are you doing??!!" haha.. we were snapping away la.. haha.. i look at these pics and see how far abbie and i have come.. from being small kids in SHPS clas 1/10 in 1995, to the fine women we are in 2006! haha.. here are the pics.. there are also some of some of the SHINERS.. enjoy! and thanks abbie for everything.. i'm glad it was you that i've shared so much of my life with.. here's to many more years of best friendship! love you so so much darling..


when we were kids.. at an ice-skating competition


at a cell group outing at east coast park/beach


Abbie, me and Hannah in Chiang Mai for our 1st mission trip in 2001..


in our secondary school days, in our uniforms.. we look terrible!! haha.. that was taken with my first camera phone i think, and according to abbie it's in watsons! haha..


Abbie came to support me for my teenage competition..


SHSS band concert 2005


abbie and i after service..


us again..



she's trying to strangle me!!


in church after service.. i think i like my hair short..


us getting ready for Rapture


us at rapture


group photo..


are we hot or are we hot? lol!!!


nice!! haha.. in the car on the way home..


super act cute lor!! haha


this photo's kinda blur.. but i like it still :)

still got some that i can't upload.. dunno why also.. oh well.. tried my best to put them in the order they were taken.. abbie correct me if they are mixed up ok? thanks.. haha.. ciao again!

Daylight saving!

so, this morning - supposedly at 2am - we were supposed to turn our clocks an hour ahead.. that makes the time difference between s'pore and Adelaide 2.5 hours!! ugh! horrible.. but oh well.. so i only have 23 hours today! :( oh well.. doesnt really matter, don't have much to do besides studying anyway.. haha..

church was awesome.. i got up early, strolled to the bus stop and got the free bus to church.. got there at 10.05.. was 5 mins late, but no choice.. haha.. too far to walk and the first bus doesn't leave till 10.. speaker was Reggie Dabbs, anyone heard of him? i first saw/heard of him when i was in Sydney in April, and he was fantastic.. he has the ability to capture your attention and visualise his illustrations. they are powerful, and he gets right to the heart of the message.. i loved his message today, and i will definately share it with my friends and family.. did i mention that i sat by myself? haha.. MPCC folks must think i've lost it or something, cos i NEVER sit alone in church, or anywhere for that matter.. haha.. i'm always with my girls.. but it was good.. your entire focus is on the speaker..

anyways, what's a day without photos right? haha.. Noelle, Katie and I were all in such pretty dresses.. so we just had to take a photo.. i super love my dress.. hehe.. but i think i kinda look like a pinapple! lol.. so yellow.. but i think its good to wear a bright colour, after all, summer is almost here.. yay!! lunch was at the food court. Katie and i shared a plate of mixed dishes, and boy does she know how to pile a plate with food man! haha.. the pile was massive!! we couldn't finish it.. haha.. oh well.. have a great week people.. i'm off to study.. can't wait to go home.. hehe.. take care and God bless.. WWJD - Walk With Jesus Daily yeah? lots of love from down under! *hugs and kisses*


Noelle, me and Katie.. i know, i look horrible.. haha :P

ok, there's a full length shot that i can't upload.. i tried 8 times la!! but still cannot.. will try again later..

Katie and i mucking around with Noelle's HUGE sunnies.. shelly, that's the mirror you got for me!! hehe..



this was lunch! how to finish?!?! haha..



ok, i decided to add in some pics of my room.. haha.. sorry to those who have been asking me for pics since january.. haha.. better late than never right? its just a tiny room, but it's real cosy.. love the little garden thingy outside my window..


my bed and the window.. like duh! haha..


this is the garden thingy.. haha.. not really a garden, but there are some potted plants.. good enough for me.. :)


my babies!! hehe.. the baby - Elizabeth has been with me since the day i was born! mummy, manda, derek and leo gave me the rest.. they occupy quite a bit of space on my bed la! haha..

it was Melvin's birthday yesterday.. i already wished him, but wanna wish him again here.. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEL!!! have a great year ahead!! *hugs* for those who forgot to wish him, QUICK!! go wish him.. haha.. im outta here.. ciao!

Ern Chee's birthday..

so, i had a "mixed up" week.. dont know what i'm feeling at this point of time.. guess i just wanna go to sleep and never wake up.. so tired of everything.. so tired of people asking me how i'm feeling, what i'm feeling and why i'm feeling like that.. for crying out loud!! they are feelings!! feelings.. things that you feel.. how the hell do you know why you feel something.. you just do.. grrr.. why don't people understand that? why don't people wanna accept my decisions? why do people wanna question my decisions? and why do they keep telling me that i'll regret it when i know that i wont.. ugh! ok.. enough drama.. haha.. so, it was dear Ern Chee's birthday on friday.. so our lifegroup decided to surprise her at her place with a cake and singing at midnight.. but that didn't really go as planned cos she was in the shower till 12.10 la!! haha.. but anyway.. we still surprised her.. haha.. wilson got her flowers.. which looked A LOT like carnations.. haha.. but apparantly they aren't.. we stayed there till about 1.. oh! and i just have to give God the glory for this.. i dropped my phone at home on thursday evening, and some of the wires must have got disconnected inside the phone, cos it couldn't ring.. it would just vibrate.. and i use my phone as an alarm clock.. with just over a month till i go back home, i really didn't wanna get a phone from here.. anyways.. i prayed that God would let my phone work, and He fixed it.. cos the next morning the alarm rang!! i'm sooo happy and grateful.. thank you Jesus!! :) here are the pics from us crashing Ern Chee's place.. hmm.. i've never had a surprise party in my entire life la.. so sad... :( oh well...

the cake.. yum!!


us hiding in the room, waiting for ern chee to finish her shower..


SURPRISE!!!


happy birthday hun!!


birthday wishes from your lifegroup..


Ern Chee and her stalker!! lol..


HAPPY BITHDAY ONCE AGAIN SWEETIE..

we had International Student's Meeting on Friday.. it was good.. but it made me miss my own church back home.. that is the first church that i attended regularly.. i spent my teenage years there.. and i have sooo many fond memories there.. the friendships i've made, the girls who became as close to me as sisters, and the guys as brothers.. we really have an awesome SHINE family!! and i feel so sad i am no longer part of it.. :( seeing the youth here each week just reminds me so much of what i've left behind.. when i look at how close the girls are here i think of my girlfriends back home.. i miss all of you soooo much.. more than you'll ever know.. jie jie, sterls, shell, hannah, alicia, manda and abbie.. i miss u guys!! thanks so much for everything.. abbie, you've been an awesome best friend and sister to me for the past 12 years.. we've had our share of fights, but you've always been someone i could count on.. thanks to all of my close friends for always being there for me and supporting me.. i love you guys..
being the "new" one here, has really been an eye-opener for me.. back in s'pore i guess we were soo used to being in our cliques, we, or i, never really bothered to go out of my way to make someone new feel welcomed.. sure i'd go over and say hi and chat for a bit, make that person feel settled and that's about it.. but i now know that that's just not enough.. yes, you do try to make that person feel at ease, but it's not as simple as that.. i've learnt that being the new one, there's a tendency to feel left out.. don't get me wrong, the people here are great, and they try to make me feel like one of their own.. but it's just not that simple.. it takes time to really integrate oneself into a new environment.. you get along, feel comfortable with them, so that's it isn't it? well is it really? who's to say it is and who's to say it isn't? it's good to have a place where you belong.. but where is that place for me? do i even have one? i feel like a lost soul.. not yet settled here, but no longer a part of MPCC.. yes, i know, i still am part of MPCC, and i will always be welcomed there, but it's different.. so much has happened and changed over the past year.. things are different back there, and i'm different.. i can't just expect to waltz back into everyone's life expecting things to be just the way they were when i was there.. and so what if i do settle here? what's gonna happen when they go back home? i've got 4 more years to go, while most of them only have a year or 2.. and most of them are going back home or overseas.. like Noelle - she's so sweet, and super random.. but she always makes me laugh.. (thanks babe..) :) but she's leaving next year.. yes, she's still in Aust, but it ain't the same..

i guess i just like stability in my life - when it comes to friendships and all.. still looking for that closest / best friend here.. thought i found one, but guess not.. i love sharing with that person, and i respect and admire that person too, but oh well.. in God's time He'll bring me someone i can rely on.. in the meantime, i will just depend on God, cos He never fails, disappoints or abandons us.. He never draws us to Him, only to push us away when we feel we are getting closer and start to feel comfortable with Him.. that's just human nature.. :) but thankfully that's not God's nature..

oh well.. this was one super random post, cos i had no intention whatsoever of talking about all that.. haha.. but it feels good to get everything off my chest.. exams in 3 weeks.. aiks!! gotta start mugging and stop all my philosophical thinking.. haha.. enjoy the pics from ISM and have a great week.. love ya peeps!! God bless..


the 3 birthday girls... they got saboed.. haha..


Phylia, me and Noelle after ISM..


Lynn and I.. Lynn is my senior!! haha.. doesn't look like at all lor..


Phylia's wearing boots, Noelle's wearing the whites, and mine are the goldly ones..

My wonderful life group..

the 20th of october was the first time i attended lifegroup here in SA.. i wish i went a long time ago, cos they're so so so sweet... :) we had... food of course!! haha.. tong yam steamboat.. and yes, i know, all of you back home will be like "what?! emma eating tong yam?? no way!!!".. haha.. i know.. but it really wasnt hot.. at all.. and it was soooooo yummy!! haha.. i ate way too much.. but how to resist? haha.. thankfully, all of them love to eat, and can really eat A LOT!! haha.. so i didn't feel so bad.. :) food was sooo yummy and company was awesome... after dinner we had ice-cream.. yum yum.. then we watched home run by Jack Neo..so good.. except that there was something wrong with the VCD, and we couldn't see the race part.. but it was still good.. thanks guys for everything.. i had soooo much fun!! love you guys.. :)

stayed home on saturday, and started packing.. haha.. i know i've got a month to go and all, but.... haha.. and also cos i need to move stuff to my aunt's.. so i've gotta get it packed up soon.. church on sunday was great.. feels so good to be the Lord's house after sooo long.. haha.. never again will i work on a sunday morning.. hehe..

i went for interactive service at night.. this girl, Amanda Best was there.. she survived a plane crash in which 5 people died.. only she and the pilot survived.. she shared her testimony and it was amazing.. she said "I'm glad i chose my saviour before i was in my time of need".. and that is just sooo true.. so anyway.. here are some pics from after the service.. we were just mucking around while waiting.. hehe.. have a great week people.. love ya!! :)

Look at all the food..
more food.. yum!

Wilson, Katie and err.. forgot her name.. hehe.. sorry..


group photo..

another group photo..

noelle and leah


group photo but missing Wilson..


Delia and Lynn..


Hsien Fei and me.. She's also from s'pore


Delia and me..


Lynn and me..


Noelle and me..


Wilson and me... i'm sooo blessed to know him.. he's a wonderful lifegroup leader.. :) appreciate u heaps..

19th of October

so, here are some pics of the gift that Leo sent me today.. instead of sending them out to everyone who asks for them, i'll just put them here.. enjoy.. and have a great friday tmr.. i know i will.. i'm having steamboat with my life group!! so i'm looking forward to that.. then i'll have even more pics to upload.. hehe.. take care peps.. love ya all!


This is what i found on my bed when i walked! got a shock.. haha..


This is what it says on the balloon...


This is what was in the box.. it kinda looks more like a coffin though.. haha..


these 2 leaves came with the flowers.. i thought they looked kinda out of place.. haha.. but oh well, they look alright sticking out on either side of the vase..


close up of the roses..


and there you have it.. i arranged them, but got pricked in the process.. haha.. 24 beautiful red roses.. they make my room smell soooo good... haha..