  phew. it's been a really packed week for me. but along the way, wow, i've had so much fun and been so encouraged! although my eye bags do seem to have expanded... =b (time to invest in more concealer. eeps! ) well, national day was a blast!
it was the first time i've really enjoyed my national day. used to be i'd just stay home and lie around like a lumpy couch potato-ey... but this time round, ngam* and some other friends had a fantabulous afternoon of cutting, glueing, pasting and painting some four banners into existence. well, actually 3 banners and one giant wand =) there was a considerable amount of munching going on as well. heh heh... on yummy juicy brazilian apples (from Cold Storage - trust me, they're the best apples you can get! ) anyways, all the cool artsy stuff we made was part of our ra-ra props for Singapore Idol . =D yup, our friend JD is pretty far in the competition, and we went down this week for one of the pre-recorded shows to ROAR our support! =) Can't give the details yet, but it was awesome to step inside a television studio. it was a lot smaller than i expected (although it apparently seats 800 pax), and not quite so fancy as i'd thought. but it was cool enough lah. heh... we got our own screen time to SCREAM our adoration and declaration of unending support. heh heh... i think we pretty much lambasted the rest of the audience into oblivion. haha... ok, maybe that's wrong use of 'lambast', but i always did want to use the word.
=b so yeah, i'm pretty proud of our yelling prowess. HAH! JD was gorgeous (as usual), but the judges were horrible. oh well, but i shall refrain from that strain of thought, because i guess, in the end, at least some of what they say might be scripted etc... who am i to judge etc... so, yeah.
but i did feel they could have been a LOT kinder... =) other than that, the other highlight of my week was baby-sitting the Andersen kids. =) Mike Andersen (from the U.S.) is on STINT with CCC, so he brought his whole family with him! FOUR KIDS?!?!?!?! =D they are really really cute, all blond hair blue eyes cheeky grins sticky fingers. 3 boys and a girl, and she's totally endearing and not the least bit shy! i was pretty scared that i wouldn't be able to connect with the boys, who are pretty mature for their age and not very interested in typical-Singapore-boy-stuff like toy car racing and lego. but they were really sweet and friendly in the end. although they didn't really eat much of the pizza... brought them out for 'popsicles' (ice creams) after that. i tell you, it was super traumatising to take 4 kids across a 2-way road! i was holding on to the two youngest and directing the other two to go first, but still, was realyl gritting my teeth hoping no motorbike would suddenly zoom around the corner and dash them into smithereens! but thank God we made it to Cold Storage safely. hoo-boy... everyone got a cornetto, except little nicole, whow anted her jellipop . it's this ice cream stick (paddlepop) that has a piece of jelly right in the middle. anyways, on the way back, her lovely jelly slid right out onto the grass.
=( she was so woebegone and disappointed, but i didn't think i should buy her another ice cream... (too much sugar no good hor...) so tried to cheer her up somewhat. and cheer up she did, when i brought them to the playground after that. it's really cool how agile and daring the kids are, clambering up and slide and shinnying along the monkey bar like they spend the whole day doing this (hmmm... i guess they've hada fair amount of practice!
) had a very funny LOTR conversation with kevin too. we both agree on one thing at least - aragorn is MACHO! heh heh... i dun understand why ON EARTH?!?!? matthew wants to be gimlee though... go figure the very LAST exciting thing that happened to me (well actually a series of exciting things that have led to an exciting conclusion! ) is that i have just raised my full support!!! =) i'm so SOOOO dazed by God's overwhelming and timely providence! in fact, after the two letters i received in the mail tonight, i've actually raised MORE than i need. praise God! Jesus you are so good! 
