ok. I've officially given up on trying to upload videos on my blog. I've tried many thousand ways but it doesn't work. I think I'll put the link here instead. But another time la. It's so annoying. I've been trying since easter sunday. Oh well. Maybe I'm not meant to put up videos.

5 weeks has already gone past since the march holidays. This means half the term is over. That's very fast la. Another 5 more weeks and it would be the june holidays. That's half the year. THAT SUPER FAST! WOW! This year is really speeding past. Everything is happening so quickly.

Yeah. I want to thank God for letting everything be good for me. I realise that I don't seem to have any complain about anything in my life like for the whole week. Usually I'll compare my life with someone else's and I'll feel upset if I don't have a certain thing and all. But I've been thinking. And I realised that I'm really satisfied with my life. Now is to have a new goal. And that's 1-4-U. Yeah. some program thing in sunday school la. Whereby we bring one friend to God. Yeah. As a christian, I think I should really leave my comfort zone.

(sorry for those who find this sensitive.) But yeah. God has placed me in an environment whereby there aren't as many christians as the past years of school. Yeah. Maybe He's like giving me this chance to reach out. Now I can't give any excuses. I have to at least play a part. I don't want to be unable to answer when I'm asked what have I done for God. I want to proudly say. I managed to do 1-4-U. Yeah. Guess one way I can do that is to be a better friend. Or someone who is always available. Someone who is ready to listen to anyone. Someone who can offer advice to those who need them. Someone whom others can trust.

I hope I can be that person.

God has given me so much. And I want to give Him something back. So yeah. I've a new goal to accomplish.

ahh. i don't know what to blog on. but this is just to update this blog of mine. yeah. hahah. oh well. when i get inspired then i'll come back again.

3 months I enjoyed my freedom of playing anything I wanted on the piano. 3 months I didn't have to practise regularly. This 3 months have come and went so quickly. To think that my mum actually found me another piano teacher which I had an 'audition' with today and yupp, she's going to be my new piano teacher.

It's not say I don't like piano. In fact, I love playing the piano. The one thing I don't like about it is the lessons. I don't like playing all the same pieces non stop. And to think that I could have actually finished my grade 8 if not for my teacher before this one.

Miss ** (in case I get sued. So I better just use ** as my teacher's name) was actually a really good teacher. In fact she was really fun and because she was young and so fun to talk to, I found that I could really relate with her and actually have fun during lessons. She was the teacher that made me actually love playing the piano. And recently, she got married and pregnant. So ever since, all she's been thinking of is her son. And I must say, that yes, all parents would want their children to excel in as many areas as possible, BUT she was making her son go for 'lessons' at a age is that is below 1. Hello? That's like mad. And she's trying to teach him the piano. Like how is that possible. Anyway, because of that. She started to get a bad habit of changing lesson timings last minute. And usually when one goes on a holiday, there would usually be planning. But apparently, she doesn't tell anyone about her plans and on the day itself, I have to go down to the school only to find out that she is not in Singapore. She should at least be more responsible la. So yupp. That's how I stopped piano. And since the november holidays, I never had a teacher.

So ya. My dear cousin just had to tell my grandmother who has been bugging me since to find a new teacher. And I finally got one. So in a way it's good la. I may just stop the minute I finish my grade 8 exam which I should be taking next year feb or march? Yeah

I told you all that the word was a good word! You see, even Miss Sim commented that we smiled naturally and why? It's because of that word. Hahaha. Oops, I means HAUHHH!!

Yeah. Handbells was really fun. It helped me to get my mind of things that I didn't want to think of. Unhappy stuff. A particular event that took place today which I found rather unreasonable. Yeah.

THANK GOD FOR MAKING HANDBELLS PERFORMING GROUP '06 SO SO FUN!

I think I've fallen in love with handbells. Actually I don't think, I know I've fallen in love with the Mg Handbells Performing Group '06. (Btw. I think we should get another name. Mg handbells '06 is rather long. ) All the fun and laughter we have just makes me look forward for the next practise and I really don't want all these to end. How I wish that this year wouldn't pass by so fast so that the sec fours wouldn't have to leave and beginners have to come up. Don't think wrongly, it's not that I don't want anyone to get promoted but I just find this group really really fun. Which other cca can have as much fun as us? Wow. To think that in sec 1 I was rather reluctant to come for cca and almost even regretted joining. Good thing I had friends who made my 'stay' in handbells ok which leads to the overwhelming happiness I'm experiencing now.

The trip to Japan in November would surely be very fun cos the whole crazy choir is going or at least I think everyone is going. OHHH I can't wait!

And remember. The trick to be able to smile naturally is to say this one special word. And this word is non other than HAUHHH!! (To understand this you've to be in handbells)

HANDBELLS IS SO SO FUN!!

Friday and Saturday has been so so fun and being in the handbells performing group '06 has really made is much much better. For those two nights all we did was mainly laugh and laugh, forever doing touchup, taking photos, getting ultra high and doing the weirdest things possible.

To think that when I first joined the performing group I thought that we all would never be so close but I was so so wrong. When I first joined, I was like didn't dare say anything cause I found a lot of people weird. But now, all I hear is us talking rubbish non stop. Haha. And our choir snacks and gossips everytime we have nothing to do. Haha.

HAUHHHHHHH!!!!

This is a very good word to make you smile naturally. Remember Yun Jing aka Mrs Huang Li Hong.. If you want to smile. You've to say that word to yourself. Haha. And I'm so going to put that word on the handbells notice board. Yeah

YEAH. Finally settled down after coming home.

EXPRESSO WAS SO SO SO FUN!!!

ok. after all the briefing, priscilla, tiffany and rui jun came over to my house to bathe and then we went to school. sat down like weirdos and started doing our makeup. haha. we were so weird doing it la. cos we had very limited time. then we rushed of for dinner which was not too bad. so ya. went to the mep room 1 after that.

and as usual. we had to touch up our makeup. trust me. we did that many many times. and we started neatening our hair. we had to all follow the same style. yeah. then we entertained ourselves by first taking photos. then eating (btw. the mg handbells choir is forever found eating and talking non stop. and most importantly. we laugh non stop. don't think that just because we are in a performing art we cannot get good toned muscles. we can k.) then we played with the chimes and ya. after a long long while we finally were called to be on standby.

ya. so at backstage. I was ultra ultra nervous. but the minute i started walking to my bells. i started hearing friends shouting my name. I was SO SO EMBARRASSED LA. then i tried to ignore them and ya. i was waiting for lao da--sandra to start the whole thing cos the first song is very tiring for the bass which i was playing in. yeah. the song went really well. both of them. and everything went really well.

then back at the room. we had an evaluation because dear yun jing just had to suggest one. haha. so ya. then after that i was teaching the choir the dance i made for the song 'broadway'(our second song).. hahah. it was indian based (sorry for being a bit racist) and ya. i can't believe the whole choir actually wants to learn it. haha. then i was teaching them the tracy whine that went HAUHHHH. hahaha. it was really really funny. and everytime someone said something negative to us. we would go HAUHHH. actually i think i was the only one doing that. but we all laughed and laughed and laughed. oh. rui jun and i thought of the post we should have at curtain call and it's really cool. i'll try to upload pictures of it. haha. actually the process of choosing the post was more fun.

so basically all i have to say is. MG HANDBELLS ROCK!!! yeah. especially once you've close bonds with your fellow performers and are able to crack jokes like the performing group '06. hahaa. can't wait for the japan trip. i think it would be so so so fun.

Is it wrong that I don't know curses? Is it weird that I don't like it when people swear? It is so unusual that I don't know all those sick stuff people do in class and all?

I really don't understand. Isn't like a blessing to not know such stuff? I don't really see the need to know how to curse. How to swear. And I definately don't see why I need to understand all the sick stuff that people know. And why do I always get the same response. "Monica, why are you so innocent? This is so unusual. People at this age can never be so innocent" But I seriously dunno such stuff. I'm not pretending la. But so weird. Why would people want to find out such stuff. Don't they think that not knowing such stuff is a blessing. I kinda like the fact that I don't know so much. I remembered there was this once when people cursed non stop when they were angry and it influenced me for a while that when I was angry I would start thinking of those words in my mind. And then I realised how I always hit someone when they sweared and all so I slapped myself and told myself many many times that I got to kick the habit of thinking like that. And yes. I must admit that bad habits die hard. But for christians especially, don't you all think that you shouldn't swear or misuse words. Oh well..

And I dunno why. But for a person who likes music. I seriously don't really like listening to pop and whatever la, unless the lyrics are like meaningful or the tune is nice. Other than that, I find the rest like noise. Especially when it goes on and on and on. wow. I wonder how people can actually stand listening to them non stop. Not meaning to be offensive and all, but I find certain songs like very wrong. And I feel that they shouldn't like play it non stop. Cos the use of offensive words and curses are like... A LOT. And it's not very good la. So yea. I think that people should like know what they're listening to before they actually start listening to it.

Yeah. All these are just what I think la. I may be wrong and all but yeah. I just got to pour all of these out and try to make my blog more alive.

To dear Miss Tiffany from handbells. What's wrong with laughing non stop. You laugh non stop. So in honour of you. I'm going to type this:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

And to gerald. I will carry out my threats k. Beware of me. and please for once believe that I'll carry them out

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
I'm making an appearance. I know I haven't been blogging for a long long time. Aren't you all glad, overwhelmed, excited that I'm making this kind of appearance. HAHA! I'm getting ego again.. Hehe

Got the DISC results back today. haha. I'm got IS again. haha. I like being an 'I'. I think it's so so fun to be an 'I'.. We 'I's are fun people. Ok. I don't feel like going into detail.

Now about handbells. Ok. We are getting cip hours for performing in St Luke's Hospital. YAY! Espresso is going to be so so fun la. All of you should come for it. I think that all the performances are really nice and really worth it. Tomorrow, tuesday, thursday and friday have full dress rehearsals. We were joking that we would all stink la. But the performances will still be nice. Today's practise was one of the more fun ones. We barely played and then we started gossiping. HAHA!!! Handbells is such an fun cca. I don't regret joining it unlike when I was in sec one when I really was scared of mrs aw and deborah.

ok.. i shall continue tmr. and hopefully with an inspirational post.

Ahhhhh. MY COM CRASHED!! So sad la. Now i'm using my mum's laptop. So pathetic la. Now all my documents in the com are like all gone and there's no way my father can get the com to work.. So it means that the com would be going into the workshop soon. So what la.. I hope that the guy would be able to recover the documents. yeah.

Ok. I seriously dunno what to blog about. I seriously dunno how people can just sit down and blog everyday. How come they get so much inspiration? How come i don't get such inspirations? And I don't want to sit down and blog about my everyday life. I want my blog to be a place where people can find out be inspired. Where people can feel entertain. But I SERIOUSLY DUNNO HOW I CAN DO THAT! Oh well. When I finally think of a way to make my blog more interesting, my blog would be more alive.

As for now. I shall just blog rubbish. Yeah. I am so shocked that we only have to come back only two days in the holidays for handbell practise. Ya. I thought that we have to come back like almost everyday. But for certain reasons, I cannot say when practises are. But oh well.

Oh, and for ministry sunday. It was ok ok only la. I think cos like not many people went, the response was not so overwelming. But the worship ministry was ok la. Quite a number joined. Oh and many people whom I didn't expect to join, joined and did things I never thought they would do. Wonder how sunday school's going to be like tmr. Cos like a lot are in camp and all. So ya. It would mean sunday school would be rather quiet. Oh well. Have to wait till tmr to find out. And I still dunno how i'm going to church. Cos my father and brothers are going to malaysia for some wedding dinner. That means only my mum and I. But if my father is taking the car. and until now no other car is like coming. Does that mean my mum and I have to take the bus? I hope not la.

Ok. that's all the crap i got. so ya. for those who read this. I hope you enjoy your ONE WEEK of holiday. even though it's really short. i am sure it's a well needed rest from school. yeah. especially if you have teachers who go " girls give me a chance to praise you..." or teachers who go "sticker question" hahaha. i better not continue. hahaha. later get into trouble. hehe

Foochow Methodist Church, Intermediate department is going to have a 'CCA day' this sunday (05 March 2006) and it is called

MINISTRY SUNDAY

The different ministries you can join:

1. WORSHIP - Musicians, song leaders, set up music
2. WEBSITE - people who post, maintain, reporters, photographers
3. WALL DISPLAY - people who maintain our display
4. STEWARDS - last min people ... people who ensure our programme continues
5. ICEBREAKERS - games
6. OFFERING - collect money ... do offering prayer and song
7. LOGISTIC - clean up the place after sunday school

and the only thing i can say is

JOIN THE WORSHIP MINISTRY!!

What the worship ministry consists of:

1. Playing the keyboard

2. Playing the guitar

3. Playing the bass

4. Playing the drums

5. Worship leading

6. Back up singing

7. Preparing the powerpoint

8. Doing the projection on sundays

9. Setting up the equipments

10. Keeping up the equipments

11. And many more...

And don't worry, you don't have to do all of them. All you need to do is to tell me this sunday what you're interested in doing. And if you lack confidence, there will be people playing/singing alongside you, mentoring you if you want help. The worship ministry is a really fun ministry. After playing for sunday school for quite a bit, you'll be so familiar with the songs that you can take half the time to practise and use the remaining time to 'jam'. And if you cannot make up you're mind by this sunday on which ministry to join, you are welcomed to come to me any time you want to be a part of the ministry. yeah.