Thursday, November 30, 2006
today i read on the papers bout sparing the rod spoiling the child. i feel that though it is true that by not hitting them or punishing them, as a parent is in fact harming more than benefitting the child, however i personally feel one cannot solely beat the child, without telling the logic behind. this is because if not the child will feel that he has not done wrong and as a parent u are just beating him indiscriminately. furthermore, as a child, they cannot help them differentiate right or wrong and just by beating w/o reason, it may lead to unnecessary trouble and breed violence.. oh well a 2 prong approach must be done to handle such situation in both a rational and benefitial way, to allow a healthy relationship between both the parent and the child. however no one said it was easy lolz...
rudi blogged at 10:28:00 PM
May your light shine...
in the darkness...
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
just came back from "open season" the movie. it was quite nice though the very short climax. quite a dumb plot but well it was funny lolz. i got the tickets for free coz it was some charity premier that my dad's company and the scout association organized at grand cathay. the price for the ticket was actually $30 so it was quite a steal xD. and it came with complimentary popcorn and 4 bookmarks ( which is the pic on top).
yesterday i spent basically the day with some of the class peeps cycling at ecp for 4h. and surprisingly i still feel like nothing. man this is weird. imagina running for just 2h and i dun think the effects will be the same.
oh well...
rudi blogged at 10:27:00 PM
May your light shine...
in the darkness...
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Did you ever sort of wondered who your true friends are and who are the type of friends who are just “friends” because you are from the same organization as him or her? Well, this thought has been on my mine for a long time now ever since June 2005. it was then did I realize many of my supposed best friends are not even worth calling as friends. After I prematurely left my cca, half of them did not even bother to talk to me anymore, pretending that you are not there even though they just walk past you. Gone were the days that we could joke and talk about mundane things in life and school, for now we are like strangers on a street, who don’t know each other at all.
What does it mean by true friendship? It means a relationship where ppl care for u coz of who u r inside, not your rank or just because you belong to the same grp as them thus they got to show this sense of pseudo-friendship thing. U mean after spending so long with each other, that’s all you can do? Once I was ur friend and now a stranger? Can’t friendship last even after the common point between u and the person is gone?
Some ppl may say friendships come and go with the seasons. Friends can always be made again and old friends will often disappear as you are separated by time and space. However are the friends around us always really a true friend who goes through thick and thin with you no matter whether the type of situation?
For me, I had found mine in church… ( I know what you are thinking… “ ah another church propaganda thingy”… lol but it’s not) this grp of friends are the type that will help when I am in need and will accept me for who I am not what I can do for them.
I hope that true friendships will not be a rare thing but instead last through the ages of time….
I never thought I'd see this day,
I never thought I'd feel this way,
You...a stranger to me now.
I'm left with emptiness...
I wish I knew how it could be,
That we were once so open and free.
You were like my brother.. yet so much more
I wish I would have seen what I see now before.
For, I did not and it's too late...
My friend is now unknown.
And what hurts the most is I now know..
What I lost.. and I'm alone.
To face a challenge life has sent,
And not a moment with you I've spent.
I hope one day I can forgive you, my friend..I miss you....Why did you go?
rudi blogged at 10:54:00 AM
May your light shine...
in the darkness...
Monday, November 27, 2006
pics say a thousand words... anyway i dun feel like talking today
i'll only give it 5.5/10
rudi blogged at 11:17:00 PM
May your light shine...
in the darkness...
Saturday, November 25, 2006
i finally got the SCM's race pack... it came with a jersey and some other stuff like brochures and pre and post race briefing blah not to mention... pasta. yep pasta that can be found in supermarts. why in the world did they give pasta for??? so weird. and the race pack itself is no longer a shoebag but those sling bags like most of the girls are using in sch now... lucky there was an extra strap given if not then really sian le
anyway i met with mel to get back my wallet and with jj to get the pack then finally with borne and jj to get borne's booties. and on the way i saw 5 scouts from cat high, namely marcus, nengjie, aaron, gordon and ong ah... what a coincidence.
SCM in 9 more days.
rudi blogged at 9:27:00 AM
May your light shine...
in the darkness...
Thursday, November 23, 2006
ah finally my com is working...
after the one week trip in shanghai, i realise one thing. chinese have the hardware but utterly lack software. so basically my mum and i with my bro and sis went to this place called "shanghai 老街". the place sold antiques and also the famous xiao long pao :D anyway so the place was super crowded and this man happen to bump into my mum seemingly on purpose coz the stretch of road we walked on had quite a bit of space to manouver and yet he purposely walked straight into her. so basically she sort of cursed in english under her breath... and this guy instead of saying sorry started scolding all the hokkien profanities on and on while walking away... haiz i can't say it was totally his fault for this, but he could have at least apologise....
well shanghai is nice but it is like super polluted. i think the psi there can be easily 120 almost evry day. so in comparison to the more rural hangzhou (i went there for 2 days by train) , i still prefer hangzhou esp the west lake where the sights are serene and charming. oh one thing happen at hangzhou that was super funny. we went to this temple that day and then later visited the tomb of yue fei, however according to locals they said that if u wanna visit the 2 places you shld go to the tomb 1st then the temple or else bad luck will fall on you / your wishes in the temple will not come true.
so when my sis heard it, she just said " there is no such thing lor ..." well she did not get to complete the sentence as when she stepped into the tomb itself, and said that sentence, she immediately fell and tore her pants ( knees part)
well some say this is coincidence, while others say it is the work of yue fei haha
now that i am finally back in singapore, i finally decided to end my one year career as a canoeist... and decided to focus more on my studies and God. well this decision was a weird one coz i seriously did not wanna quit frm kayaking... it reminds me of last yr where i had also quit my cca early just to study too. furthermore that nite i was thinking on my bed about which will come first in my life cca or religion, and then just when i was about to make up my mind, huili called and asked me if i was going for service with the cell grp... it was then that i decided to go for religion and studies and also sadly to leave the team...
since that nite i had been having loads of weird dreams. one involved melvin and his grandma asking me for something. another one was with marcus leong and neng jie (scout), and another was me being a jedi knight from star wars or something and then there was one with my ai tong frens arghhh just so weird all my frens are in my dreams...
oh and SCM is in 10 days and i also have cell grp chalet and class chalet one after another.... sian
rudi blogged at 6:48:00 PM
May your light shine...
in the darkness...
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
hey dudes, 1stly today i wanna thank my pw grp for gging through one entire year with me.... thanks mel tm loyi and anna for suffering through all that nonsense with ivay with me.
HAHA ITS OVER... no more pw for the rest of my life YESSSSSSSS!!!!
next i will also thank u guys who sent me off just now through the gates in the airport... yes for those who dunno, i am at the airport now typing this. thanks jj mel borne rk tm loyi mp melody and of course lebron haha thanks guys if u did not pei me i'll be like so sian... :)
haha i promise to post the pics of the trip when i get back ok? anyway to those who still need to suffer this nonsensical pw gd luck haha enjoy ur time with ivay and relax k?anyway cya i need to go soon so till next wk enjoy urselves and dun miss me lol
rudi blogged at 10:58:00 PM
May your light shine...
in the darkness...
Monday, November 06, 2006
miracles and wonders do happen. and it all happened on sat.
haha after one whole night of mindless stuff like watching DVD's that dun have sound and playing cards with mel, jj, borne, edmund, and rk... gee i am tired and i still have op rehearsal later...
rudi blogged at 12:12:00 PM
May your light shine...
in the darkness...
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Your eyes make the darkest days bright
Your smile warm up the coldest nights
Your laughter makes bleakest of days much more promising
Watching you everyday is like a blissful torment
To be able to see you
Yet not know you
Seeing your angelic face,
Will cast away the darkness settled deep in my heart.
Hearing your voice
Soothes the internal conflicts I have with myself
It is you whom I can open my heart to
It is you whom understand me most
For it is you whom I want to be with
"The heart is willing but the body is not."
rudi blogged at 7:55:00 PM
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in the darkness...
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
woah our class seriously makes it seems like there is no a levels in like 2 days time. basically today after wasting 45 min in sch supposedly to file the GPF, they all decided that 845 was too early to go home so like half the class decided to chiong my house... there were the mastermind jj, big mel and small mel, borne, edmund, anna, loyi, yuanwen, mp and daph. this is so wrong lah imagine 9 ppl squeezing into my cluttered room...(melody and daph came later coz of some op thing)
yah so basically they came all the way to my place and played poker cards(dai dee, argh dunno how to spell lah but u know what i mean), monopoly, badminton, table-tennis and the guys later went to swim... haha for once we seriously had some fun though shagged yet still feeling satisfied after the entire day. most of them left around 2 plus but the guys stayed on and chilled out in the pool for about an hour or so... hmmm finally a mini class gathering eh where ppl can put aside most of their worries and well basically have fun.. that's the way a class shld be. together as friends not as acquaintances haha well hopefully the class chalet would be even more fun then this lol
rudi blogged at 7:37:00 PM
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in the darkness...
