Everyone needs compassion
And love that never fails
Let mercy fall on me

When everyone needs forgiveness
Kindness of the Saviour
The Hope of the nation

Saviour, He can move the mountains
My God is mighty to save
He is mighty to save
Forever author of salvation
He rose and conquered the grave
Jesus conquered the grave

So take me as you find me
All my fears and failures
Fill my life again
I give my life to follow
Everything that i believe in
Now i surrender

Shine a light in and
let the whole world see
Singing, for the glory of the risen king
Jesus, Shine a light and
let the whole world see
Singing for the glory of the risen king

Janice.
twenteen two. pisces.
Child of God.
Hosanna. blessed.
HSS Psy. CCF.
OH Events.

-12:07 am

So I caught Australia today (Hugh Jackman was yummilicious!).

Can't say it's a bad one but then it wasn't that fantastic either.

I love the sweeping scenes of the wild outback. The wilderness beauty of it is such a vast contrast from the modern veneer of civilization. Civilization is well, pretty much copy and paste. Yes it has its beauty and I am pretty much a city girl, but the untouched world holds so much beauty that it gives you pause and forces you to take a seat back and be in awe of it. Kinds of make you wonder if the world is like that when God first created it. Especially when the "wet" is in. Love the colours of the sunset too! ^.^ And those scenes when Drover was driving the cattles or horses, it made me want to be part of his little gang too. I so want to learn to horse ride. I think horses are beautiful animals - with speed, grace, beauty and that little temper when things aren't going its way. Did I mention Hugh Jackman was all pure testosterone? :]]] No wonder he's voted the sexiest man alive for 2008. Haha. You've got my vote hands down! (I can't believe his wife is sooooooo much older. Oh gosh. And they got married pretty early like 12 years ago when Jackman was only 28. Oh gosh. >.<)

Anyway, stellar performances by the actors though I would really wonder the need for the villain and the history lesson on the war in the later part of the show. But those aside, something felt pretty off for me. It's like there are too much to be told in that 2 hours and 45 mins. You had aboriginal-and-whites racial issues, the war, the cattle-stealing business, the romance, friendship, camaraderie etc etc and so the plot wasn't tight enough I felt. Not to mention that the script is a little too cliche and corny, it had me cringing just that little. Haha. But well, it's a nice film to enjoy for the holidays. Unlike another movie which urm wasn't really worth the time like the day the earth stood still. -.-

Everyone got good results but me. It's reallly blah.


-8:07 pm


Merry Christmas!

Spent 23rd and 24th rushing around Batam and Singapore for the Gospel Rally. Sang as an A Cappella group (which was disastrous especially in Singapore) and for the choir. It was a super busy period this year. But I like it because maybe it's more meaningful this way. Many were saved too during the rally in Batam. Praise the Lord!

Batam is really RURAL. Gosh. I feel rich just by having the currency in my hands. 1SGD = 7580 Rupiah. It's really so ... countryside. I'm so not used to it. Felt utterly spoiled just standing there and see how people spend their everyday life like that. What's for entertainment? I have no idea. What's interesting to do there? Nothing seem interesting. I was bored after half a day there. Wow. I couldn't wait to go back to Singapore. But the beaches and blue skies are pretty. The seaside "restuarant" has a wonderful view although the food is something else to be considered. (Like the sotong though heh).

Had about a 2 hour nap after reaching Singapore before heading out to church again. Gosh. It's madness. Didn't feel like I had rested enough but what do you know, the day just finished like that. Got a few people who were saved last night too. Praise the Lord! Not as many as those in Batam, but giving the ratio thing a consideration, perhaps we are about the same. lols.

Then we spent Christmas morning at Qi Ren's place. And we just have to play Citadel for 2 whole fricking hours. Gosh. It was only one round. But it's a two hour game. Way to go. -.- Thought we were supposed to leave at 1am plus. In the end, we only left his place at 10am. wow.

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Feels like something has changed. Am I too sensitive or what. Now I got a taste of what it means to be disliked by other people. While it's true that we can't possibly please everyone but it is not really important when you do not know that person or care about him/her. It matters only when you do know the person and are actually friends. The surface seems so superficial in the end. And I don't even know what went wrong. I'm just feeling negativity from you. I'm prolly thinking too much here. And I don't dare to ask.

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I hate how time seems to never pass. I hate how my will sucks big time. I hate how everything looks like a facade in the end. I hate that I can't even sort it out.


-1:00 am

So there's this whole phenomenon on Twilight. If you don't know anything or haven't heard of anything about Twilight, I don't know which planet you have been living on. Seriously.

I have never read the book and after tonight, by any chance that I do read the book, it's purely due to some perverse compulsion that actually propels me to read the book.

Reason: please go here. The author of the blog wrote an extensive commentary on the entire series. Bel just have to introduce me to it. I trust her taste in books and well, when she said it's not worth the time, I figure why waste them then. Cleolinda just strengthen that belief. Twilight (and the entire series) seems sophisticated with the covers and if I had have found them in the library, I would have considered borrowing them home to have a look. But then again, I never did have much interest in vampire stories. Because they pretty much command the same kind of storylines. (Although that may be set to change 'cause I've been reading some vampire stories on fictionpress.. I don't foresee that to come in the near future). Anyway, yes I would have considered them. I would have like it some and would want to read the rest of the series just because I like to complete series whether they are good or not. If they are really bad, and the interest is just killed there and then, well, off you go back into the "Return" bin. I doubt I would have finish the series. If I do, it's just perhaps to see how Edward and Bella get the freak on. And maybe to find out more about the Jacob. He does seem interesting.

In a way, I gathered from the little that I have read, the author was able to rake up feelings which all females can identify with this Edward-Bella relationship. There is strong identification with the female lead and she's living the ideal life for them, albeit it's a supernatural one with vampires and werewolves. It's not only the female lead, but the general teenage feelings displayed by all the characters - the angst, the frustration, the mood swings, the wishy-washy-ness. I haven't been out of teenage years for long. Not that I have never experience them at all, I have never dwell on for too long. How productive is that? It only makes me depressed. What for. I have better things to do than that. In a weird way, Bella is completely like a teenage girl who she is supposed to be. The way she acts, reacts and thinks. The issues she is concerned about (she wants to have sex. all the time. she's jealous of the attention her baby is getting. and probably more but I don't know because I didn't really the books. ) AND the coolest thing about her - she gets to live the wet(test) dream of every girl.

Then there is the mind games play by both sexes have been going on since the dawn of humanity. Who knows if Adam did know what Eve thinks even though she was created from a part of his ribs. Everyone's rooting for her to get the guy who is a damn perfect catch. Oh really. And the perfect part is he loves her as well but he just couldn't figure her out because her mind is block from his mind-reading skills. Wow. Can't you see how those mind games are being played here now?

So Edward falls in love with Bella because she has a damn sweet smelling scent that he can't resist and he can't read her mind because of that mind-shield and they have to go through all the torture because of that stupid mind-shield and etc etc, it makes you wonder what will happen if Bella still does have the sweet-smelling scent but has no mind shield thingy? Will Edward still likes her because he can actually find out what she is thinking and so on and so forth. Those angsty scenes and dialogue probably can't happen. And well, we won't have a story. So basically we have a love relationship because of all those. How wonderful.

Edward kinds of fade-off in later books. WTH. He's like more of a supportive character who's constantly wringing his hands away during Bella's pregnancy and probably doing nothing much during that final battle since Bella has this most-awesome-amazing-shield going on.

Bella is Mary Sue to begin with. And you have no idea how irritating that can be after a while. Edward well, he is Gary Stu. The male version. The whole plot.. Is there a plot to begin with? I don't know. But apparently it fell flat at the climax. Exciting much? Was it supposed to be a relationship kinda book or a exciting plot kind of book? It's hard to come up with one with excellent characterisation and engaging storyline. There's only one series which impresses me to date is The Belgaraiad and The Malloreon by David Eddings. He writes the best fantasy books I have ever read. How that didn't become a phenomenon is sacrilegious. Haha.

Anyway, the identification and the desire to live out those fantasies and dreams are being manifested by the utter support for Bella aka the books. And hence the phenomenon. Females and males of all ages are reading the series and I doubt anyone is ashamed to announce that they enjoy Twilight and the series. For now. I wonder if it will be like an F4 thing where thousands and thousands of girls swear their most faithful allegiance at the beginning and then to have the majority of them sheepishly acknowledging their wack-out craze for them few years later. I'm part of this majority, sad to say. But well. Maybe I should really find those books to read just so to get a feel of how it's like.

It will have to wait till I have nothing else better to do. Seriously.


-12:42 am

Okazaki Tomoya. It's kind of hard to imagine that this kind of guy, first portrayed as indifferent, sarcastic and cynical can be actually be a big softie at heart. After the Fuuko arc, hmm, I guess my perception of him got changed. He and Nagisa finally got close after the whole event too. 9 episodes. Wow. That's like almost half the season. But it sets the pace and developed the characterisation well. Read through the After Story arc of the game in wikipedia. In the end, someone died. Wonder what they will do to that person in the anime showing now and it's only like 13 episodes? Don't know true or not. Somehow that is too little to tell the whole story substiantially. Doubt it is 13, most likely to be 24 ba.

Went for Zheng Fa steamboat today with the p6 gang. Haha. So old la we. Ming Fang had to remind us of the 11 years of friendship. Crazy. 11 years leh. Yunli and I got additional 3 more years because we knew each other since p1. OMG. I feel so old. Keni is kinda bullied by all of us because of her small appetite. Haha.


-8:40 pm

《海角七号》给友子的七封情书之第一封

Anna
Bethia
Chrystella
Eunice
Hosanna*
Hui Ming
Hui Qun
Hui Ting
Li Jie
Liwen
Mavis
Mindy
Pamela
Sharon
Shermin
Shuzi
Wan Xin
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Yit Shan
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