Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Hyun Bin - LG Cyon 'Chocolate' CF - 1

*TEMPTATION!!* (i mean the chocolate phone... n well, hyun bin too. heh...)
Hyun Bin:

Chocolate? You got the looks.
Girls must follow you.
Smooth too.

Girls love you right? I know what it's like.

But don't go for all of them.
Don't ever be a heartbreaker, life gets complicated.

Being handsome is a sin.
But what can you do? You are born this way.
A guy must have his looks.

(Phone rings)

Oh, Jihyun! Of course I want see you but I am at a conference...

What did I say? It's all your looks.

Credits: http://www.cyon.co.kr
posted at 11:24 PM

Monday, August 21, 2006

tdy is sunday... n i had to work afternn shift, means i cldn't go church! actually wanted to wake up for 1st service then go work frm suntec, but i was so tired i thot i'd slp in service, so in the end din lor... i saw all the "beta" church pple going service at expo while on my way to airport made me feel so sian...


but tdy is still a good day! haha... cos tdy i saw KOO TIN LOK! for u ignoramii (?), that's LOUIS KOO for u! i actually saw him walk past our counter smiling n taking to someone beside him, with a trail of excited fans behind him. i was like, "HOI? he going back to HKG on our flight how come i nv see him??" then my colleague, zarina, sitting next to me said, "aye, that's my passenger what! he was standing in front of u, u din see meh? u helped me check-in his friends what!" n i was like "GOT MEH?!?! I DIN SEE!" like so super sian diao, but ok lah... at least i caught a glimpse of him... my other colleagues who already saw him b4 were like, "sharmaine! go to the departure gate help lah! then u can see him!" so i was like "yeah hor!" i volunteered myself to really enthusiastically, but alas, there were already maximum staff there, so din need me...


BUT! i have such immense favour overflowing rmbr!!! my supervisor, linda, heard abt me n asked me, "u wanna see him issit? are u getting his signature? u want u can go to the gate n see him till u happy then come back..." i was like, "REALLY??" wah i tell u i straightaway put on my jacket n rushed to the... toilet to arrange my hair first, haha, then to the gate! but he wasn't there yet! linda came in ltr oso n told me that she saw him going to the lounge, so she asked me to take a walk outside ard the transit area, i will see him... INDEED! he walked past me, n he was alone! aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh... to catch another glance of him! he was in a simple black casual jacket n donning sunglasses, so... man! haha... me n another colleague decided to standby there, knowing he'd definitely hafta pass us by again to get to the gate. so i took quite good looks at him lah, happy enough! he's tall, dark n REALLY handsome! good enough for me to keep it a beautiful lie, after all i've heard abt his apparent snobbishness. i just stood there smile smile sweetly as he n his gang of kaki walk past us... heehee.


i went back to my counter happy-happy, then the rest were like, "whoa sharmaine happy liao lah..." but u know what! zarina had actually re-printed his boarding pass n gt another colleague to get his signature! when he came back n gave it to her, zarina was like, "no lah! this one for sharmaine one!" so i OFFICIALLY have LOUIS KOO'S signature! haha! actually i dun care one lah, just a cheap thrill... when linda asked me if i was getting his signature, i was like, "for what, his signature oso can't pay my bills... haha!" so anyway... i felt so loved tdy. haha. the end. tho i hope to see daniel wu nxt time, i missed him last wk when he came!
posted at 12:54 AM

Thursday, August 17, 2006

Kim Bum Soo - Memory MV ft. Hyunbin & Lee Da Hae

just an mv i found featuring hyun bin (!!!) frm my "lovely sam soon" n lee da hae frm "my girl". i dunno how koreans can make anything emo, even mv oso so emo... it looks gd enuff to be made into a movie!
posted at 11:46 PM

Monday, August 14, 2006

me n adelin! 
posted at 11:59 PM

me n eunice! 
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me n elaine! 
posted at 11:58 PM

hai. these are last-day-at-work pictures i took with adelin, eunice n elaine. quite a lot of my colleaugues have left CX since i joined... n it's quite sad when u like them n u're just beginning to develop friendships. i guess friendships always held a special place in my heart. (sheryl was complaining ydae that she nv talked on the phone for hours as i did with my friends.) it's been getting me quite down when i feel like there're so many friends i haven't got time to catch up with. i've come to believe that Christ holds us together, that even after a long time we still have that warm feeling when we meet again. but during that long time, i can't help but wonder if i shld do more to be a better friend.


ok i shan't talk abt primary sch friends... too long ago lah. i tink of the 6 yrs, only yingling n peiyu remain special. but my most enjoyable school times were prob frm secondary sch days, how 5 of us - me, fiona, eunice, nicholas n brian always hung out everyday. so quickly it's been 5 yrs since we went our own ways, it's easy to forget how significant each of us were in each others' lives then. makes me laugh sometimes when i rmbr how we played table tennis together during PE, or the chicken rice we ate every day, n how we "terrorised" our chinese teacher, wang yong xin. i oso rmbr the times we comforted each other n cried with each other, n encouraged each other. those really were the days we all grew the most. lots of EXISTENTIAL ANGST.


then my jc friends... ok abt jc, i tink it's DIVINE n how AMAZING that even tho i spent 1.5yrs in tjc, i actually dun rmbr much of it at all. maybe cos i found them quite "traumatic". heh... thank God i forgot all the horrible maths tutorials n econs essays i had to do... what i always rmbr tho were how my friends stuck by me n nv ceased their encouragement n support for me in the days when i cried, when i thought i was throwing away a bright future by leaving - kat, xiaorong, corina, khairi, shuzhen (cheenapok! haha!)... ok i've nt met up with them ever since, but sometimes i take out the farewell card they gave me to read n it still warms my heart.


then poly! actually i enjoyed my poly days a lot! i love tp man... all the canteens (chicken chop!), relak timetables, n i tink i even love the reservoir in the backdrop. i really opened up in poly during my stdy of tourism (must talk, no choice...). my small fry - sabrina, batman - priyanka, chui chui - charlene, etc etc etc... actually i realise one thing. i nv went further than tampines mall with them, the bunch i hang out with actually dun like going orchard cos too far. -_-" except charlene, my manicure kaki n comrade during our cx internship days! haha... now that i've gt my diploma, it seems quite sudden yet easy to leave sch. tho now when i step into tp for care grp now, i still feel the nostalgia, rmbr where we met, rmbr where i've walked with some pple, rmbr our conversations, rmbr how we got to be closer friends.


but i tink my best times are with care grp, with campus ministry. i rmbr how i first met ailing to go for caregrp, n how subsequently we stuck together n did so many things together. n wendy too, who's like a da jie to me. i rmbr how zixin n elicia always welcomed me, always cared for me, believed in me n loved me, how they always acted on their love to pray bold prayers n speak powerful words that have changed my life. i rmbr care grp at mackenzie used to be almost 3 hrs long, with sean leading us in powerful n annointed praise n worship, n the love within the care grp. the fun we had as a care grp hanging out till late, sometimes sitting by the merlion singing praise to God n sharing the word, or even taking pictures. n most of all eating at different places all the time - liang seah, bras brasah, lao pa sat, golden mile (!!)... of cos there are so many others who touched my life with theirs. i rmbr zixin always told me that tp care grp is abt the pple; it does nt belong to the leader, but it belongs to Christ who brings the pple together (something along this line). sure enough care grp, for me, has changed so much n so drastically. after zixin, i've come under so many other annointed leaders - coach sian hwa, jonathan, coach andy n now steve. then there's also coach angie, coach han, coach leslie, coach tammie, kaijin, amy, cuijing, shujun... my beloved bros n sistas - derek, sheryl, jerrome, fredrik, jaclyn, siling etc etc etc etc. God is really gracious to me, bringing so many wonderful pple into my life, nv allowing me to feel truly lonely. always showing me His love in the things they say n do for me.


this entry might sound like some tribute, but it's nt exactly it. i just counted some of the abundant blessings Abba has poured into my life. i tink of all things, pple are most impt to God, n i always had the dream to want to be part of impacting lives. i just have to keep learning n believing that it is with who God has made me to be, n with my very life that i glorify Him n proclaim His love n goodness to the pple. a new lesson for me - i cannot be a friend to everybody. i cannot maintain the standards i put on myself for how i treat my friends. BUT JESUS IS ALREADY THE FRIEND. Jesus is the One who fills up the void in pple's hearts, who perfectly loves, comforts n cares for them. how easy it is for me, that i just take the place of availing myself to let Him do the supernatural, n i enjoy the privilege of witnessing His magnificence! why do we make what God has made so easy, so complicated... tsk.
posted at 10:30 PM

Sunday, August 13, 2006

"Who told you that you were naked?"


had a great sharing session juz now, short as it was. i suddenly realised how long it has been since i last hung out with friends like this to just sit ard n share abt Jesus, n i really miss it. actually, i think i really need such sessions. to outsiders it may seem like a bunch of youngsters relaking, but only those within experience the refreshing. truly where 2 or 3 are gathered in His name, there He is in the midst of them. we have been called with such privilege to enjoy Jesus, n when we gather as His saints, how much more we should fully utilise the authority n power given unto us to speak words of life! to know that as our word goes forth, He surely accomplishes it!


a lot of times i feel like i can't contribute much to God's kingdom, that i'm nt as annointed as others... end up hiding. end up doubting even the words of prophecy over my life. end up finding it hard to see how to live out His supernatural ways naturally. end up deciding to remain "normal", when actually i'm SUPERNORMAL. which brings me to the question above, "who told you that you were naked?" who ever told me that i had to attain a certain degree of "annointedness" to impact lives? who ever said that there was a mould for which people could serve God the most mightily?


i like what coach han shared during the recent poly cluster event - if you look at an apple, all u see is the exterior; no one can see the number of seeds in it nor the potential of how many fruits these seeds will in turn bear when planted. God has already placed the seeds of greatness in us, we are so surely growing n prospering as we move on in this life. whether we see it or not, all we need is just to rest n believe! i saw something else oso just now as sean was sharing... when we look at tiny seeds, we do not know what fruits will emerge frm the trees (unless u're some freakin botanist lah, den different story... ok dun let such a minor detail affect my holy preaching. haha...). but we're already firmly planted on gd ground, being watered by the word. each of us are called to bear different fruits all for the glory of Christ, so why should we envy each others' giftings, when ours are just as precious n implanted by God Himself? we just do the natural, n God does the supernatural thru us...


only believe.
posted at 9:36 PM

Friday, August 11, 2006

transformation is different frm change.


transformation is instantaneous. change takes time.


i was transformed by Jesus. i am changing bcos of Jesus.
transformation is sure. perhaps it is our changing nature that sometimes causes us to wonder if we still retained portions of our old flesh. even if i seem to be doing (or not) the things which seem good n holy, the immutable truth is that i stand righteous eternally. how ironic that we change everyday yet we're forever the same in the eyes of Abba. a just man falls seven times n rises up again. if we cld just step out of our self-consciousness n stand firm on this, we'd live so much happier. doing things we enjoy, smiling always, making an impacting everywhere... how awesome to live life like this, INVINCIBLE.
posted at 8:10 PM

Monday, August 07, 2006

aaah. i just woke up frm 15 hrs of sleep. the past 3 days i'd been on morning shift n really working hard man... i was off on thursday, n after BS sumore went for supper till quite late with sheryl, kaijin n jon, tinking i'd end work at 11am the nxt day anyway n can go home sleep. well, i obviously dun keep up with the news... friday morning arrived at office at 5.30am to see the office busy with my colleaugues already. turns out they had been working since the previous morning n had stayed overnight bcos of typhoon prapiroon in HKG. the typhoon caused 2 flight cancellations frm SIN n 4 flights to be diverted frm australia to SIN, causing thousands to be stranded here. so that morning i went down to the check-in counter to see hundreds of passengers queing already, n i cldn't see the end of the que at all! whoa i did check-in non-stop till 3.30pm b4 i cld actually rest back in my chair n breathe properly! most of the passengers were kind enough, although it was quite sad for some who cldn't go home to europe/US. i had one guy on business class who actually got so upset that he wasn't able to fly home to amsterdam n he was crying in front of me... after that i just helped wherever i was needed cos those who had been working for more than 35hrs had to go home... n i OT-ed till 12 midnite. well, it was quite tiring, plus i cldn't go for caregrp... actually i was so busy i actually forgot abt caregrp, until my sis called me to ask why i still wasn't home. ok lah, although worked so had, my supervisors n managers worked even harder. n they gave us free popeye's again (which i was beginning to be sick of), plus free taxi ride home. but nxt day i had to work 5.30am again, n ydae sunday oso... tho din hafta OT cos i tink the typhoon weakened by then n flights were back to normal.


i was so tired in service ydae in church that i tink i slept halfway thru pastor lian's msg, which i thot was really gd! but i really cldn't tahan! felt like i was melted unto the audi chair man... i did catch something tho. "What does it mean to be looking to God?" REST. i know pastor prince has been on that topic for so long, but i realise it can become church jargon eh? u can fool everyone on the outside, but only u n God know whether u're resting on the inside. when He is still the biggest in your heart. when nothing can shake u out frm what u believe Him to be in your life. i really wanna take what pastor lian said for myself - God, i want to know that whenever n whenever, i'll have no qualms that i'll see the answers i want frm You. hey, it's easy to make small of God when things are going ok... but when challenges come, that's when He's gonna accelerate n lift us up to much higher ground! ok i'm telling this to myself, bcos i find myself in a place where i'm ok with everything in my life... a very comfortable zone. that i tend to forget the many great things God showed me so often... n i begin to ask little. demand little. shun the big. i don't care man... i'm stepping out of this, i wanna take everything that God has for my life!
posted at 4:19 PM

Thursday, August 03, 2006

me n charlene posing at counter CX714. taken b4 she left a month ago. 
posted at 1:29 AM

tdy was certainly an eventful day at work for me... i thought i'd be happily sitting at the check-in counter tdy, then i arrived at office to find out that i'd be meeting 2 arrivals n then doing departure gate for the flight to colombo. firstly, one of the arrival flights i did came in frm HKG/BKK, n there were actually 21 pcs of checked-in baggage carrying rifles/pistols/bullets! thank God for my managers n colleagues who were so helpful in calling the airport police n state police to escort the firearms, as well as assisting me in meeting the flight. the firearms had to be cleared at customs individually, so it took up the whole of 2 hrs... then when i thought i cld finally relak one korner in the office, we were informed of the colombo flt's delay of 2 hrs! since it was the last flt out, we all OT-ed till quite late, abt 10pm. my gosh, i hadn't had anything to eat since my breakfast at 11am! at least i got stored-up power. argh... but bcos of vanity, i wore my new court shoes the company gave me that are 2.5in tall n so darn narrow, now my poor little toes are all swollen up like cherries frm all that walking! at least my manager so kind gave us free meal vouchers (up to $16!), so i bought a whole lot of chicken frm popeye's! *drool* n at least i went to work having 14hrs of sleep frm the night b4, haha... must be God knew so He gave me such restful sleep in advance. ok lah... besides my feet that are still throbbing, actually i really like the kind of challenge n the situations i face working where i m now... ok i tink i say that too many times. heh.


u noe how when u have a lot of time to urself, u start to think a lot. actually i've been tinking abt some stuff. like some things i did, have been doing... or maybe have not done at all, made me question myself. nt extreme condemnation case lah... just issues where i thought i had certain standards for myself regarding areas in my life, n then i find myself just nt really being bothered to keep them. so inside my heart i just go "hai... what to do... forget it lor. what happens, happens." that kind of thing. but u oso know how we as Christians are never alone, bcos no matter whether we like or dun like, the Holy Spirit of Christ's love n power is in us... whenever i find myself like this, it seems the Holy Spirit just stirs within. such peace comes over... i know everything's ok actually. that it is nt me having to live out the holy life, but it is my very person whom Jesus has made holy, n whether i do or nt, i'm still holy. it's so very powerful, so very assuring n so very important to know n believe that our position in Christ is unshakable eh?
posted at 12:30 AM