Your Deadly Sins |
Envy: 80% |
Wrath: 80% |
Greed: 60% |
Sloth: 60% |
Pride: 20% |
Gluttony: 0% |
Lust: 0% |
Chance You'll Go to Hell: 43% |
You will die at the hands of a jealous lover. How ironic. |
Monday, May 30, 2005
How Sinful Are You?
Saturday, May 28, 2005
Fun = Aching (?)
BUT the minute, I put on my blades.. I felt it was as if it had no friction at all and I was petrified. Yes. The word was petrified (+paranoid that I will end up in the sea cos the sea was just in front of the blades rental shop..)
Rested my 'orchid' butt (skin the back of my thighs but no where else injured.. Thank God!!) for awhile.. we sat by the chairs by the beach and chat while waiting for Claire and Geir. Red Bull promotion girls on blades came pass and offered us free chilled red bulls.. hmm.. not bad.. free drink. Hehehe.. After almost an hour of resting.. continued bladding since we reckoned C&G would most probably not turned up already. Blade all the way to Old Fort Road, and blade our way back to the rental shop. Nearing Mt. Everest Hump, I declared I am not gonna fall down 4 times in a single day and took off my blades and walked barefooted back to the rental shop since it was quite near. (My birkenstocks were in the locker!) Yan joined me (He could have bladed back actually.. haha) and we were yelping from the blazking ground when walking barefooted.
After that Yan drove me to Tiong Bahru where I am supposed to meet Ink & TY and Gab & Merv for the great cookout! Went grocery shopping & I headed down to TY & Ink's with Gab when he saw me at Tiong Bahru.
We spent 3 hours in the kitchen cooking up Tandoori Chicken (Gab cooked this himself!! So Cool right? Another guy I know who is keen on cooking.. other than Paul who has potential to be a great chef.. this guy cooks DUCK can!! I am drolling at the thought of Paul's food..) And TY cooked delicious long beans, carrots & dried shrimps (I loved it!) and Broccoli Fried Rice (Yummylicious!!!) and we experimented on cooking Oyster Kailan and I cooked Stir Fry Sweet Chilli Chicken on glass noodles. So much food!!!!! But the food were tasty... I must say the Stir Fry Sweet Chilli Chicken is my FIRST ATTEMPT (and it turned out.. quite nice? U think, guys? Hahahaha fishing for compliments.. thick skin..if not, pls tell me so I can improve)
Bathed after dinner cos I was disheveled after bladding.. but TY & Gab say I dun look as if I had bladed..(Anyway check out the pics on Ink's --> http://www.pagesofink.com/) And felt so refreshed after bathing.. and we top off our dinner with Dark Chocolate & Tartufo Gelato with Alfred's Chocolate Swiss Roll Cake..* Pris feels as though she is in 7th heaven.. (Well actually yes.. cos Ink's place is on 7th floor) so nice!!! Junming joined us in time for dessert.. and we all played board games while TY & Jm played Zuma.
What a wonderful Saturday!!!! Enjoyed myself to the max though I fell 3 times and skin myself and I am aching right now like an old grandmother.. but it was all worth it.. Btw.. Gab is already thinking of what to cook on the next great cookout.. Anyone keen to join us? U can be our experimental guinea pigs if you dare.. :)
Thursday, May 26, 2005
Locus of Control
Locus of Control Test Results |
Internal Locus (59%) Individual believes that their life is defined more by their decisions and internal drive. External Locus (41%) Individual believes that their life is defined more by genetics, environment, fate, or other external factors. |
personality tests by similarminds.com
Learned this during one of my modules, Leadership Management Style (LMS) this semester. It's basically about raising your own self awareness to be able to manage yourself as well as your suboardinates in an organisation. And one of the topics, well.. not topics but tools to use to increase your self-awareness is Locus of Control. (Okie, it's all coming back to me now .. esp after my exams..)
It's whether or not someone has stronger internal locus of control or external. The results above explained itself. But in our studies Locus of Control goes further to determine if in a situation where something goes wrong, if the individual tends to blame others more (external locus of control is high) or blame yourself for what went wrong (internal locus of control is high). Nothing to be judgemental of but just to increase your self-awareness and supposedly make you a better leader going forward.
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Now I know why....
Monday, May 23, 2005
Amazing Vesak!!
I truly enjoyed myself to the ultimate.
Woke up this morning (from sleeping at 2am.. lack of sleep here!!) as Yan called to say he will be at my place to pick me up in another 5mins time. *Pris Panicks.. have yet to decide what to wear, what to bring along to change, comb my hair... etc. Yes, I am a typical girl*
It was already nice of Yan to come fetch me though we were heading to East Coast Park and he is staying in the East side of Singapore. Am in Central Singapore. Sweet of him, right? ?He is Mr. Nice Guy and NOOO, I did not bully him to fetch me.. he volunteered.
Met Yan and we went to Eunos (For my didi, Khanh's sake.. its pronounced as "U-nos") to pick LiFen (*ahem*ahem* Yan is LiFen's potential.. wahaha..)
And before LiFen came, Yan & I went to had out breakfast at Eunos market since LiFen told Yan over the phone that she had a bun for breakfast already.
Afterwhich we went to the train station to pick LiFen up. I decided to sit at the back of Yan's car as I don't want LiFen to misunderstand that I am her *cough* rival.. Hahah.. U know how women are in such things. And Yan was chuckling away on how ridiculous I am for sitting at the back of the car while he drove to the station.
Reached East Coast Park and good grief!! The park was packed with lots and lots of people. Yikes! Feels as though I am in some hypermart grand sale and everyone's rushing. And oh yeah.. the weather was so humid and excruciatingly warm... less than 10 steps from the car and I felt myself melting.
Saw Claire and her beau Geir (He is getting taller??? Nah.. I think cos I am not wearing heels as compared to the usual times from office I saw Geir).
I was about to rent a bike to cycle when LiFen asked me if I would be roller blading.
*Gulps* Me? Erm.. I told LiFen that I do not know how to blade at all.
So yes, instead of cycling. I went roller blading today. Rented a pair of skates and was wearing the necessary protective gears and the skates and surprisingly to myself, I was able to stand on my own. LiFen was sweet.
She held my hand, taught me how to blade for the next 15-20 mins and then she let go of me to let me blade on my own. Claire and Geir were the experts in roller blading, they zoomed passed with Noriza and Noriza's friend; June Ong on their bicycles.
Yan, LiFen and I were blading slowly. Yan & LiFen were nice as they orbited around me like a satelite to ensure I was fine. I did had a few (well more than a few) times I nearly fell and screamed for help..but Thank God I didn't fall.
LiFen taught me to manage my balance and to go over humps and because I had a wonderful and patient teacher, I was able to blade on my own throughout the rest of the rented time of almost 2 hours?
To the last part, when we were returning to the roller blades rental and there was this 1 hump, I was trying to get across but 'rolled back' and Yan tried to grab me but he himself had difficulty going over the hump and he let go of my hand..which is fine..
*PHEW!!!* Thank God once more that I never fall and YAN TZE SHIN!!! U PUSHED ME LA.. IF I FALL BACKWARDS and LAND ON MY HEAD... U GOT ALOT OF PEOPLE TO ANSWER TOO!!! hahahaha.. *Trying to send him on guilty trip.. though he doesn't read my blog.. hahah.. will send it to him.. hahah*
At the rental, there was again another slope, the guy at the rental was nice, he pulled me up and I was busy chanting to him "Dun let go.. dun let go.. plsplspls... its a slope" And he was saying "Dun worry, I wont. I wont. " And he helped me took out my skates later.
Too bad no pics.. if not it was really fun. We chilled out at Macdonald's at the open air area.. had our drinks, chat, and it started to rain. Dun know why, at that moment I felt as though all of us were in some cafe in Europe or out of Singapore and chilling out and having fun. Nice!
After that, Mr. Nice Yan sent me to Dhoby Ghaut MRT to meet my churchmates for Timothy class at KC's. LiFen and him went to plaza sing for lunch as well. *Hee hee... *
K.C's place was amazingly white in decor... his fluffy dog was also white and really resembled a Cotton ball .. his name is Cotton.
Cute, but I am not an animal lover.
After Timothy Class, we walked around here and there looking for a place for dinner. Finally settled at Funan and Gab pointed out that we walked for an hour already. (I was thinking in my head.. Yay!! More exercise!!! hahaha)
Anyway, I think I got hooked on bladding. Quite fun. Thinking of getting a pair of blades now after my Eurotrip and go bladding with these folks for it has been fun. Hmmm... blades? Yes.. I think I will!! Living in Singapore has another meaning now.. Another activity that I am keen. Hehe.
Came back home, bathed and felt sooooOo good.. refreshed, not sticky from today's exercise and humidity, and text didi to tell him my Amazing Vesak day today. Hehe.. Came online and he was also online. Cool. This is indeed a great day! Praise God!
Sunday, May 22, 2005
16th - 22nd May 2005
There was nothing much going on from Monday to Thursday for me.. except Friday onwards. Friday 20th May 2005, had a firedrill - skipped it.. refused to go down for a silly firedrill (not from 26 floors ok, people!!!!) Was the only one holding the fort for my account on Friday (Feels like big shot, Grahame in Sydney, Lien on half day leave, Liz T. on leave, HB holidaying in HK.. so left MEEEEEEE). Anyway, today was also the Star Wars Episode 3 night.. free tix sponsored by the firm.
Speaking of Star Wars.. check out this hilarious blogspot webpage I found while surfing the net..
Interestingly, I found out amazing facts about Amidala.. and Yoda (He is only 0.66m tall for ur info.. shorter than ur 1 arms length..) So if you wanna know about star wars character.. check out this site.. pretty cool:
After movie, the usual gang went to play pool.. I was sooo tired.. my eyes could barely be kept open .. plus contact lenses were dry. But cos we paid for "pool buffet - $19.80 from 11pm onwards to 3am..as compared to $10 per hour?" so we played till 2:30am. Went back home .. eyes nearly popped and crawled to bed after washing up.
Sunday.. TODAY... went to church.. normal.. went to see Eirene who was at work today with Ang Guppy and had a good catch up with her. Glad to see her happy. Went home and prayed.. read the bible and was singing praises to Him for about 2 hours.. SO REJUVENATING. I admit, I have not been reading up on His word religiously since I passed my bible to my bro.. which was like I think almost 1 month back. (I can hear my CL and shepherd gasping already.. hehehe.. kiddin)
Looking forward to this coming Sat's cookout 2 at Ink's & Ty's.... whooppee!
Sunday, May 15, 2005
Funfilled Sunday
It was a funfilled Sunday. First off all... I am so proud of myself *pats my own head.. haha* cos I woke up early in the morning for church and actually WALKED to the train station for the first time EVER for church. *Applause!!!!* And was early in church as well!! *Double Applause!!* Hehehe...I have NEVER walked to the train station for church before. It was always bus or cab.
2ndly, after service we hung around at Marks & Spencer's cafe for a CG evaluation and then later on went to attend a talk with Ink, TY and Gab. It was a good talk about faith and I agreed that faith is a process. It's like from zero faith to mustard seed faith and the growing to "moving mountains" kind of faith and then to something much more. But to have faith, we must believe, trust and desire. Only then would the process grow. faith has been something I guess we all struggled with. But like what Donald said.. our faith is not consistent and finite, but know that God's faith is. That is something I find very re-assuring. My God is the same today and forever. Hallelujah!
After talk we initially wanted to watch "Million" and as the screening time was much later.. we decided to chill out at Ink & TY's before the movie. At their place, TY had a brilliant idea. She suggested that the gals cooked while the guys do their stuff (played LAN games) and we'll just have dinner and that's it. Movie was cancelled cos somehow or rather the online bookng could not be confirmed. Hahah... how queer.
Anyway, TY and I had a blast of a time in the kitchen. We had 4 dishes for dinner!! 1. Tandoori chicken & onions (Dun know how it is.. but everyone finished all the food.. so i think its either they were very hungry or they were being nice to the tandoori chicken TY and I cooked. (She cooked the rest.. I basically chopped alot of vege up for her.. heheh) 2. Stir fry brocolli, carrots and zuchinni (?) sausages [which I liked very much] 3. Stir fry Cabbage & carrot 4. Boiled quail eggs (TY say wanna finish them.. ). After a nice wonderful homecooked meal, Ink brought out.. GELATOOOOOOOOOO... Nice ar.. Dark Chocolate and hazelnut!!!!! *Yummy..* spoilt rotten!!
Annnd... would you believe that after dinner, Mervyn taught me how to play DOTA? or was it Warcraft? or Both? Aiyah.. u guys know la.. its a guy thing. And I was busy screaming away while playing whenever I was "attacked" by the er... scourges? cant recall the exact name. Ang Guppy & Mervyn were busy chuckling away at me screaming. I was going "Eeeeekkkss.... !! RUuuUun!!! GooO Awaay!! Arrrhhhh!!! Yiikkes!!!" I screamed so much that Ink who was in the kitchen came out saying "what happen what happen?" So ... switched game.. switched to what? Switched to U.T .. er.. unreal tournament? Or was it Unrealistic Tournament? I could never get it right. But it was fun.. much better than Warcraft. I didn't screamed that much. FUN!!! *Addictive ar!!!* played a few rounds and we decided to call it a day ..
Wanted to take a cab home but decided against it.. so I took the train and walked home from the train station. It was quite pitch dark tonight when I walked home but I was jumping with joy inside. So Fun! What a funfilled Sunday!!
We gota do this more often Ink, Merv, Gab and TY!!!! Btw.. .I suggested to TY.. next dish we try if possible would be gyozaaa....
Saturday, May 14, 2005
Keys to my heart??? I wonder...
The Keys to Your Heart |
You are attracted to those who have a split personality - cold as ice on the outside but hot as fire in the heart. |
In love, you feel the most alive when things are straight-forward, and you're told that you're loved. |
You'd like to your lover to think you are loyal and faithful... that you'll never change. |
You would be forced to break up with someone who was emotional, moody, and difficult to please. |
Your ideal relationship is comforting. You crave a relationship where you always feel warmth and love. |
Your risk of cheating is zero. You care about society and morality. You would never break a commitment. |
You think of marriage as something precious. You'll treasure marriage and treat it as sacred. |
In this moment, you think of love as commitment. Love only works when both people are totally devoted. |
From Paul's website.. I tried it out.. HmmMm...interesting. I think quite true that I usually find myself attracted to mysterious people.. or should I say schizos? (Hot inside .. cold outside?) Haha.. kiddin..
Friday, May 13, 2005
Friday the 13th...
Well.. sorry to disapppoint all of you .. my sweet ardent fans. I did not have a freaky, weird or 'everything went wrong' Friday. In fact, I had a S*U*P*E*R*B Friday everrrrrrrrr!! *Ahem clears throat.. ready for a long blog? No? Too bad for u.. I am.. Wahahahah*
Started my Friday at work (well I was late.. ) at 920pm (*everyone GASPPP!!*) okie thats not the point here, I went to work as usual.. switched on my comp and while it was loading.. I was spreading my peanut butter and jelly (what flavour? Grape!) on my hi-fibre white Gardenia bread (and this is where u goooo.. "like we care!!! just trying to make u guys picture my sandwich..) and was chanting under my breathe "pls not too many emails.. pls.. not too many emails" (I am covering for my supervisor, Lien who was away in Hong Kong.. *envious*) .
I was chanting and hoping I wont get alot of emails cos I wanna leave early and on time today for CG as I was one of the discussion leader for today's CG lesson and I was excited to serve God. When I saw my emails I was like .. hmm.. quite a lot.. but to cut grandma's story short.. the Lord was magnificent.. cos I managed to clear my emails (including those emails that I was finding out the answers to reply the expatriates.) down to .....*drum rolls* only 4 emails in my inbox.. ANDDDDDDDD taking into account the following considerations:
*All of the above just sums up one thing: time wastage and YET, the almighty helped me clear my emails and work..* How?? Well.. I had a few calls.. from HR and though it meant that I would not be able to read and reply to emails and activate services for assignees, I got confirmations from HRs and with the answers and confirmations, I could reply the expatriates.. in which results in my emails diminishing from my inbox folder to archive.
One thing I wanted to mention was that .... Dom was really nice. As mentioned that this was his last day here in Singapore, he went around asking all of us if we wanted coffee..when it came to me.. I said can I? He said Sure! And asked me what I wanted.. told him Skinny latte (my fave..take note u guys!!haha) and asked what size I would prefer for my skinny latte. I said small and he said small was for kids and said he will order medium for me. When he returned.. He got me a LARGE cup and was nice enough to ask me if it was alright for me..if I can handle it.. if it was too much.. *Feels like a princess at this moment..* hahahaha.... I know.. I am spoilt by alot of people.. but I am not that spoilt la.. (am i?) Anyway.. i think its really sweet of Dom to have done that for all of us and I noticed that the rest had.. er.. Medium size cups? *Pris felt blessed*
*fast forward*
The day soon ended and I headed to TY & Ink's for CG. Arrived on the dot (according to my watch) and Weeleong was the chairperson.. he was a hilarious chairperson.. not in a goof up manner.. in a well done yet mischeivious manner.. Merv was the worship leader this round and I enjoyed his praise and worship.. Reina was in charge of holy communion and she never fails to amaze me .. her holy communion was cool.. like a pro. After that, we acted out a skit of one of the bible chracters - Jonah..We were picking names from a bag to determine who played what character and guess who was King of Nineveh??? No bonus points if u said Pris Tham .... It was fun and after which I had my first discussion ever!!! Thank God that it was an in depth sharing.
Sis Ty said last night when we were running through the leader's notes to help discussion leaders that the first person you pick to answer or share the experience would set the depth of the discussion.. the members in my group were busy and did not had time to do their CG homework..but praise God.. (now that I am blogging and recalling back..it suddenly dawned on me) when I asked them to share on their experiences and everything.. they were quite shy so I started sharing first and the discussion and study on Jonah soon led to an in-depth sharing and learning as well. I am indeed thankful and encouraged by what was shared by the members in my group.. Yixi, Reina & Alfred.
Alfred was appointed to close the discussion in prayer and I was touched that he prayed for me and said that the discussion and sharing was in-depth.. actually right now as I blogged..
Once more.. I wanna thank God for providing me with an opportunity to serve Him. Wanna thank my CL and Shepherd for giving me the chance as well as guiding me. I learned a lot and it is indeed a joy to serve God. Also, wanna thank my discussion members for being patient with me and also for trusting me enough.
After the caregroup session, we went over to Joel & Evelyn's which was nearby for Evelyn & Elaine's birthday celebration and had Haagen Daz coffee ice-cream.. Nice!
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Hilarious...
Anyway, before I drift off to talk about something else. As I was saying that I thought I had nothing much to blog today.. (I can hear all of you go ... "YEeessSs..Pris. .you just mentioned that and we know... dun be such a nag cannn? Muaahahaha... like I care.. haha) I was searching for songs for the week where I am leading praise and worship during caregroup (still got sometime before the actual day but kiasu-ism = scared to lose, and as I had nothing to do and I am someone who likes to prepare before hand preferably..) when Mervyn said Yo to me online on msn.
We chat and talked about P&W (praise & worship) since he's gonna lead this week (U go bro!! Gambatte!!) and we were exchanging songs and chatting and Merv sent me this zip folder with alot of songs in it, to help me in my search for the songs I wanted.
I opened the zip file after receiving it and was scrolling down the list of 800 over chords and songs when my eyes O.O!!!!! chanced upon this song title:
She's been drinking too much egg nog
When we found her Christmas morning at the scene of the attack
It's not Christmas without grandma
Now we're all so proud of grandpa, he's been taking this so well.
Now the goose is on the table and the pudding made of fig
I've warned all my friends and neighbors, better watch out for yourselves
Monday, May 09, 2005
Boiling...
Sunday, May 08, 2005
Internet's Up & Running!
Anyway, I've been up since this morning for church service at 9am and then went for Timothy Class at 1ish in the afternoon and then rushed to membership class at 3pm and was there till like close to 8pm. That's almost 12 hours straight of contact lenses wearing for me!!!!!!!!! *I can hear my eyes gasping for air... time for me to save money for lasik big time man..*
Friend Bear | |
Contented sigh... and with exams over... *pris smiles*.. this is life....again i say doing nothing (at the moment and though shortlived) is bliss.....