hey guys!

i uploaded the pictures on facebook, look for them in my profile and tag yourself if u want to. i'm lazy to tag! heh

cheers! it's friday tmr!

As usual, photos up on facebook!

HAPPY 19th BIRTHDAY TO OUR DEAREST KHOR YINGLIANG! =)

Best wishes!

***EDITED***

Attention to all cousins!

Jinhui is has a request from all of you and that is to keep 19TH SEPTEMBER FREE! because ROY's 21st birthday falls on 24th sept but he do not want to celebrate so ah hui intend to give him a surprise birthday bash and needs our co-operation to make it happen.

right now, the venue in mind is at EAST COAST PARK and we will most probably be having a BBQ. keep yourself free from 1pm onwards okay! Ah hui say 1 stone kill 2 birds cos' Xianghui requested for her to organise more cousins outing plus her treat so she's organising one now and of cos, her treat. hehe =D

So, do keep yourselves free no matter what! jus need one saturday from you. =)

p/s: don mention or ask anything about the surprise birthday bash in front of Roy!

THANKS IN ADVANCE!

Pictures up in facebook! You've all been tagged by me anyway.


THANKS FOR THE LOVELY NIGHT, on behalf of ah hui.

come over and wii at our place soon okay!!

Holidays...?

hey cuzzies~!!! hey cousins~!!! hey hey hey~!!! any1 wanna go out together this hols? =) think YZ will be back next weekend (hopefully) so ya... shall we meet up??? =D quick~!! post suggestions ok~!! =)

Live from Singapore

yeah LIVE from singapore, i had some guitar lessons from kai ze here.

anyway, i figured out that our extended family here can submit storyline to mediacorp to make a drama series lo, even longer than zhen qing de.

ok! wonder how this post will work out.

HAPPY 23RD BIRTHDAY TO XIANGHUI!! =D

MORE PICS! there're still more but perhaps another day okay! enjoy!


from our dearest siyun.

mini pasar malam

SAKURA!(yang ming shan)

nice view.

pluck flowers.

post-volcanoe(smell like rotten eggs)

check again for more pictures!

hello there, my dear cousins.

as most of you may heard, i didnt do well for a's. and i guess the chances of me getting into a local uni is quite low but i'll still try to apply, no high hopes though. and i'm considering to re-take a's this year which i think is the only plan i have now. i would appreciate any comments(advice) and encouragements from you guys. heh.

that's all!

Lab work

By far the most interesting and enjoyable lab experiment. It's anyone's guess to what's in the picture. :D

010109

i lost my toenail completely 5min into 2009 while on a night cycling expedition. pretty frustrated with myself. whenever i let my alertness down, i seem to incur some wrath of nature or sth. things like this normally dun happen when i'm on 'very cautious' mode.. like i dun get into accidents when i'm driving, even if it's my first time driving after so long. but wth is this, made me lose the chance to play squash the next day, lose the chance to go chinatown catch firecrackers on sat.. lucky the night cycling itself was fun. besides that stupid incident that has been leaving me swearing, it was pretty much fun.

rest of 1st jan 09 was spent at nathan hong guozhen's hse. great steamboat, great mahjong, great company, great tamil radio station. watched yc learn mahjong the hard way, and then we left for dinner at somewhere near lionel's place. dessert was some durians, rather expensive but definitely delicious. it was the best of the recent string of 1603 guys' outings for sure. 1603 brotherhood is really unique lo, thanks guys for coming, it really was enjoyable. photos are on facebook, i'm lazy and also technologically inadequate to link facebook photos to here. lol!

so what do i wish for in 2009?

i duno? better luck in my seemingly hopeless pursuit of tan junior? more improvement in my engin course? keep up with my close friends? stay injury-free as much as possible? more soccer with team wyf and also the 1603 guys? list seems to go on and on...

that's all for now then. everything above is a recap of how 1st jan passed. anyway might as well grab the opportunity now to thank my dear bunkmates, fun ruey, ting liang and prat for coming down to spend the day with me today when i'm so immobile, really appreciate it.

== as lifted frm my own blog ==

this is to u guys: haha yeah cant wait for cny too. days of blackjack are back again soon! i know ying heng starting sch tomorrow, lOL! i still got 1 more wk. hehe :D regardless when we start though, cny is probably jus 2-3 wks away, hehe! we'll meet up soon i guess! still stinging from my pangseh too.. and oh yes, i need to make specs else my mum wun let me play soccer again. lol!

my 1st

HELLO cousins!

okay, this is probably my first time blogging here. nothing much actually.

just wanted to say Happy new year though it's kind of belated.
ya, now let's look forward to Chinese new year, i love it.

just wanted to keep this blog going, knowing most of you should be more busy than me, so i shall do the job!

see you guys soon! =)

with lots of love,
jinying!

New Year, New Skool, New Enviroment!

Hey...although this is like a bit late but happy new year to all cousins ... i celebrated new year with my maternal side cousins and stayed at ochrid country club...it was tiring after tat as i stay overnight for the First Time! not realli overnight but i slept for only 1 hour ...we played till the morning ...the younger ones like me went to play wii and the older ones like my sis went to play a game called 23...which is consist of dunno how many number of players ..trying to use the numbes of the cards to make it a total of 23 using plus minus divide times but no repeating of usage of cards....kkay now on to the new skool,it was on friday when skool started for me which normal ppl will have monday blue but i had friday blue...early in the morning had to wake up...

when reached the skool ,went to the parade square and it was like so messy there and walked for 5 minutes around it b4 i saw some of my fwens and assembled...we went to class and the new teacher,mdm gee came in and started chating ...it was a rather fun day though:D



cousins pls start blogging and stop letting this blog die!!!

Coming back home for a week

Hi Guys, been ages since i last posted anything here. I kinda miss all the gatherings that we have in the family especially the bbqs. I will be back home for a week, this coming sunday till next sunday. My gf and her family will be coming as well..and they will be staying for a week as well. So its kinda like meet the parents session when they are here becos i will arrange my parents to meet up with hers when they're here. Hope that everything will turn out fine..cya guys real soon...take care...

welivewoodlands.blogspot.com v2.55

eh.. i added labels to some posts out of boredom already, let's include some tagging for future posts k? haha i was trying to find previous midautumn festival posts but cldn find them.. probably not on this blog. i remembered last time we also got take pictures de lor.. >.<

kk time to mug for a few hours before sch beckons! adios!

中秋节2008

yet another year has passed.. how time flies one questions, and it's 中秋again. the moon is very round tonight.. and bright too,月到中秋分外明*/me sways around stroking some imaginary beard*. once again, we had our family gathering at ah gong's hse.

real glad that everybody went today. jinying made a very impressive observation right from the start lor. "long time no see le."

dinner was like so sumptous too. every family brought food so we had bbq stingray, dua tau, bbq chicken wings, and the satays ah gong bought as well. i was eating non stop lor!

it's very exciting to have so many cousins come together and chit chat over dinner, tv and mooncakes lor.. and tea. all the wonderful inside-joke phrases like "叫二姨跟三姨吃到完" and "corn是谁买的？" are so funny lar!

ended mooncake eating with mahjong with xj, yh and yz after the adults called it a day.. haha quite impressive lo.. i think i kia zeng for the longest lor.. like jus 3 rounds? haha!! win small most of the time only lar.. not as pro as those other 3 goons.. teeheehee.

too bad no pictures. LOL! jin hui, u missed out big time!

Random

a story that touches... a story to share... =)

What would you do?....you make the choice. Don't look for a punch line, there isn't one. Read it anyway. My question is: Would you have made the same choice?

At a fund raising dinner for a school that serves learning-disabled children, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question: 'When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does is done with perfection. Yet my son, Shay, cannot learn things as other children do. He cannot understand things as other children do. Where is the natural order of things in my son?'

The audience was stilled by the query.

The father continued. 'I believe, that when a child like Shay, physically and mentally handicapped comes into the world, an opportunity to realize true human nature presents itself, and it comes in the way other people treat that child.'

Then he told the following story:

Shay and his father had walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were playing baseball. Shay asked, 'Do you think they'll let me play?' Shay's father knew that most of the boys would not want someone like Shay on their team, but the father also understood that if his son were allowed to play, it would give him a much-needed sense of belonging and some confidence to be accepted by others in spite of his handicaps.

Shay's father approached one of the boys on the field and asked (not expecting much) if Shay could play. The boy looked around for guidance and said, 'We're losing by six runs and the game is in the eighth inning. I guess he can be on our team and we'll try to put him in to bat in the ninth inning.'

Shay struggled over to the team's bench and, with a broad smile, put on a team shirt. His Father watched with a small tear in his eye and warmth in his heart. The boys saw the father's joy at his son being accepted. In the bottom of the eighth inning, Shay's team scored a few runs but was still behind by three. In the top of the ninth inning, Shay put on a glove and played in the right field. Even though no hits came his way, he was obviously ecstatic just to be in the game and on the field, grinning from ear to ear as his father waved to him from the stands. In the bottom of the ninth inning, Shay's team scored again. Now, with two outs and the bases loaded, the potential winning run was on base and Shay was scheduled to be next at bat.

At this juncture, do they let Shay bat and give away their chance to win the game? Surprisingly, Shay was given the bat. Everyone knew that a hit was all but impossible because Shay didn't even know how to hold the bat properly, much less connect with the ball.

However, as Shay stepped up to the plate, the pitcher, recognizing that the other team was putting winning aside for this moment in Shay's life, moved in a few steps to lob the ball in softly so Shay could at least make contact. The first pitch came and Shay swung clumsily and missed. The pitcher again took a few steps forward to toss the ball softly towards Shay. As the pitch came in, Shay swung at the ball and hit a slow ground ball right back to the pitcher.

The game would now be over. The pitcher picked up the soft grounder and could have easily thrown the ball to the first baseman. Shay would have been out and that would have been the end of the game.

Instead, the pitcher threw the ball right over the first baseman's head, out of reach of all team mates. Everyone from the stands and both teams started yelling, 'Shay, run to first! Run to first!' Never in his life had Shay ever run that far, but he made it to first base. He scampered down the baseline, wide-eyed and startled.

Everyone yelled, 'Run to second, run to second!' Catching his breath, Shay awkwardly ran towards second, gleaming and struggling to make it to the base. By the time Shay rounded towards second base, the right fielder had the ball ... the smallest guy on their team who now had his first chance to be the hero for his team. He could have thrown the ball to the second-baseman for the tag, but he understood the pitcher's intentions so he, too, intentionally threw the ball high and far over the third-baseman's head. Shay ran toward third base deliriously as the runners ahead of him circled the bases toward home.

All were screaming, 'Shay, Shay, Shay, all the Way Shay'

Shay reached third base because the opposing shortstop ran to help him by turning him in the direction of third base, and shouted, 'Run to third! Shay, run to third!'

As Shay rounded third, the boys from both teams, and the spectators, were on their feet screaming, 'Shay, run home! Run home!' Shay ran to home, stepped on the plate, and was cheered as the hero who hit the grand slam and won the game for his team.

'That day', said the father softly with tears now rolling down his face, 'the boys from both teams helped bring a piece of true love and humanity into this world'.Shay didn't make it to another summer. He died that winter, having never forgotten being the hero and making his father so happy, and coming home and seeing his Mother tearfully embrace her little hero of the day!

If the story touches you, then spread the story around... This is the story of the mentally or pysically disabled. This is the story of how much a simple understanding and love for our disabled friends can mean to them and their families. This is why I cannot stop volunteering. =)

Feli's Birthday dinner

yoyo~!! juz a few pics we took during Feli's 16th (finally) birthday dinner gathering~!! =) hmmmz... no pics during the yoshinoya meal, i arrived kinda late... =x

alright~!!! now bring on the pics from the chalet~!! (although i didn't notice any1 using the camera... -.-") if there aren't any, den i'm gonna post the lame pics of ying hong's Eeyores... lolz~!! =)