Looking Back At Year 2005

As 2005 is approaching to its end, it's time for me to do some reflections which I should do but have not done it for a very long time. When I looked back at the past entries of blogs that I had written for the past one year, it was filled with ups and downs.
Never did I expect myself to take up dancing(eg. Lindy & Slow Waltz), guitar, running for half-marathon (though it's only 12 & 10km only)..........Indeed Year 2005 had been an enriching and exciting year for me plus I got to know many new friends such as GQ, YY, C, R, J, S, J, KJ, HC,F...........etc. Every encounter/experiences regardless good or bad are mainly to mould me into what I have become today. (Handsome, charming, humour, clever plus too many good points that I can't name all of them) Yeah, yeah!! Stop it, Joel!! I can almost hear Sharon shouting onto my face oredi. Haha!!
While I enjoyed myself alot this year, deep inside I knew that it's time once again to plan ahead for my future. If I continued to dwell in pleasure and enjoyment, sooner or later will I realize that my time in this world is up and without leaving any traces for people to remember. One thing I realized yesterday is that as my age get older, my dream start to get smaller. Am I starting to get conform by the surrounding around me or is the reality setting into me. Regardless of the reason, Year 2006 would be a new start for me to start once again to pursue my own dream. As many people had said before (I can't recall their names): " Don't waste time trying to think about the past as it had already happened and you can't change it, the only thing we have control is the little time we have now and to make full use of it".
I totally agree with the above sentence as though many of us including me know that life is short and we do not have much time, yet we continue to waste our lives away by not doing more meaningful things that will make a difference to this world. Let us continue to do our very best in everything we do!!

Before, During & After Christmas

23/12- Fri
Decided to watch "The Promise" with M and HL. The show was one of the boring show that I catched. What a waste of my $9.50!! To people out there, if u wan to waste ur money, then go and watch The Promise.

24/12- Sat
After a christmas lunch with my family at Bedok, proceed to meet up with F & Web where we idle ard Marina for the whole afternoon. Passed by a pub/bar at Millenia Walk where it say $30 and free flow of beer. F was at once tempted to come back later. WM joined us ard 7plus where we went to have Japanese food for dinner. When we arrived back at the earlier pub, we received a BAD news that the offer is not valid for christmas eve. What a cheat!! The sign show $30 everyday. What to do!! Juz had to give it a miss and F commented that the place was quite small and crumped. I think F is too used to the pub at UK hence S'pore's pub seem to be small in her eyes. Nevertherless, the group of us went to Harry's at Esplandage to ROC for our countdown where GQ & Eg joined us ard 11.30pm. The time passes by us before we realized it and soon after it's time to continue to our next destination....that is our beloved BED at home. How we missed it!! One thing while mentioning was that luckily Eg had his Van Helsing or Vios to send us back. What a blessings to my pocket..haha.

25/12- Sun
Spent the whole day at church meeting up with friends, relatives etc and had a busy time co-ordinating the seating arrangement and going to fetch them from the mrt station etc. Managed to catch both the chinese and english version of the sketch play. Enjoyed the India dance performed by Bel, M....etc. Should ask them to perform at the chalet...rite? Finally had our supper at Bedok 85 before being sent back by CK by his Sonia.

26/12- Mon
My plan was to stay at home to recuperate as both my body and wallet had been STRAINED to its limits by the ongoing activities since last fri. But sometimes humans are just too easily tempted and too little determination. Just a sms and phonecall, before I realized it, my body was already inside the ktv room with HC, web, wm & xp. What to do? Just have to enjoy my singing session to the fullest loh. Shouldn't waste it, rite?

27/12-Tue
What to do for today and especially NOW? The answer is very obvious. That is to go back to do my work instead of eating 'snake' writing my blog. Bye!!

Just Trying

I have come across a website recently which claim to pay people for every mail that they read. I decided to try it out since it does not require me to pay any money. No harm trying and I hope that you people out there can join me by the link provided below so that I can know the results fater (whether is it true or false?)
http://hits4pay.com/members/index.cgi?joelhkj

As the account need to reach $25 before it will send me the cheque, I realize that it will take me about 1 year before I can hit the target. Therefore, people who is interested to find out the truth of this website, pls kindly join me in the path of exploring by joining using the link above.
(no obligation & dun blame me if it is a hoax as I already mentioned that I'm still in the process of trying out oso)

The Way Things Appear

14/12- Wed

Met up wif Faye & Hui Cheng to do some shopping at Orchard after work. It's the first time the no.3 wife is meeting concubine HC, and luckily no 'fierce' fight occurred. Realized that I'm a total stranger at Orchard cos I can't even locate Takashimaya. Couldn't believe it, rite!! I was supposed to do some christmas shopping for myself but ended up accompanying the girls to buy their stuffs. That's what happen when guy goes out with girls.......no choice!! Went past some jewellery shop and saw that one diamond actually cost $48,000. I would use that amount of money to buy a car instead. Also realized that bags in LV cost a bomb too. Dun understand why people are willing to spend so much money on bags etc.

15/12- Thur

Work nowadays seem to be piling up everyday. Am I too slow/lazy or simply too much work to be complete? Had planned to meet up with friends to invite them to come for christmas celebration but can't seem to afford the time at all. What to do? However, God is good..all the time. He always work in ways I never expected. While walking along the underpass at Bedok, I suddenly thought of Sharon Ong who I had not seen for a long period of time. Before I knew it, there she is suddenly appeared in front of me. We chit-chat for a short while before I invited her to come for the celebration. She had promised to come if nothing crop up that day. What a miracle!!
And as I continued my walk at the pathway near the hawker center, Gion (ex-platoon spec) walked past me too. I managed to catch him before he had the chance to dissappear and invite him too. He too nodded his head to come. Once again, I had witnessed the power of the God. Even though I'm lazy to get people to come, He always provide people to come to me themselves even though I may not be prepared for it.
Though today incident, I felt that it's indeed a great encouragement to me. Though the future may seem distant and nowhere, we need not fear of the unknown ahead for we had God as our direction. He will work in ways we least expected and let us continue to draw other people & ourselves nearer to Him each day. Lastly, God is good and so am I (correct or not?)...haha!!

Reflections

As some of my friends had requested that I should update my blog more recently, I should do a short recap of my past one week.

09/12 - Fri
I had my first hip hop trial lesson with 5 other friends which included Hua Ying, S, Shiyun, Pris and her Bf - Chet. The six of us appeared in different kinds of attire which includes track pants......the Most special attire would go to S who wore a pair of jean that she claimed to be stretchable.
The lesson commence with about 20min of warm-up that includes crunches, half-kneel..........By the time we finished warm-up, most of us were already half-dead or should I said half-alive? Somehow the warm-up reminds me of my army days except the difference is army would shout down, down, down.......while for the dance is up, up, up.......(for the crunches).
The next hour was learning some basic steps of hip hop. We only managed to learn about 2 sets of 8 counts which is considered abit slow but can understand as most of the group are all 'newbies'.
The sad thing is that by the end of this trial, about half the class had decided that it's not their cup of tea....:(

10/12- Sat
Went K-Lunch with my poly frenz and do a bit of catching up. Realized how fast time had flies past without us noticing it. In a wink of my eyes, we had already all grown "OLD". Haha!!
Had cell at Laur's place in the afternoon and realized that CK had a new christian name called Christopher...(Is tis the correct spelling? Watever lah!!)
Played pool with web, wm & F at tampines in the evening as web does not want to go home. I was quite tired until I realized how great my own skills was in pool. Web & F were trashed 4-1 by wm and Me that nite. There were many magical moment when the skills shown captured all the audiences attention that was displayed of course by me. Muz be humble, rite!! Dun be too hao-lian!! 4-1.......yapee......

11/12 -Sun
Today is a very special day for many of us. Ck was baptismed on this day and many of his relatives, colleagues, frenz appeared to show support for his brave decision. We had a enjoyable time at the beach where we enjoyed the breeze and the company of so many people. Eg & GQ had a good time playing with their "Kid -Tim" at the beach too. What a happy family!!
For me, I was also very happy as many of the people decided to join my big family as well. They include CK as chauffeur, Bel- media production, Mich- Event co-ordinator, James- accountant and of course Web as 'eunuch' or supervisor..........The family is really getting bigger and bigger rite?
That's it for now as I should go back to my work.........cya sooooooN.

Standard Chartered Run

Last sunday-04 Dec was the day for my 10km run organised by Standard Chartered. Woke up 5am in the morning to wash up. Realized that my left eye couldn't really open as it seem to be red and sore. What a great way to start my day!! Probably due to the lack of sleep as we went to play pool the day before. At ard 5.50am, my stomach started to play some tricks on me. My spirits was in one of my lowest form especially before the 10km run.
CK came to fetch me up along with GQ & XJ in the car at ard 6.05am. Before the run, I arranged to meet up J so that we can run together. But as we all know, life never go the way we plan. It was 10min before the start of the race, I ran over to the meeting place to look for J. However, no one was in sight. I ran back to the starting point to look for the rest, but no one could be found either. Now at this point of time, I had no time to do my stretching oredi. As the time ticked itself away, I was left alone to make one of the most important decision of my day-- 1) To continue the run alone, 2) To enjoy my McDonald Breakfast instead. This is one of the toughest decision that I had to made as it concern the next 2 hours of my life. What is the reason/purpose behind my participation of the run? Where does my source of motivation come from? Finally, I decided to continue on with the run as I thought it would be a good time to do some self-reflection on my life along the way especially when I'm running alone. This resulted in my next discovery of the 'TRUTH'.
I overtook GQ & XJ along the 1.5km point, but I could not locate CK & J. By the time I reach 5 km, my mind was already not functioning well enough for me to do any reflection/thinking. Therefore, I concluded that those shows/movies are mainly deceiving people when the leads are shown to be enlightened. Or perhap it is only me that my mind cant multi-task at any one time.
One thing I'm glad is that though my day had not started well (sore eyes & diarrhoea), plus there was no companions and no time for warming up etc...I managed to complete my run in about 1hr15min. That is also with no preparation or training beforehand. All thanks to God that i managed to survive through another 'ordeal' of my live. Praise to the God!!