Gridiron Gang

Was going through a pretty monotonous day at school until the Combined Humanities period. The teacher took out a class list last lesson and ticked a few people's names. So for those who were ticked, and those who were not were sent out immediately.

I was one of those apparently. So we sat outside the benches doing our own work and talking cock. It could have been worse for us despite that Principal, VP and Major Lee were making their rounds.

It was extremely amusing when we saw Viknesh getting beaten the shit out of him by Mr Lak. Mr Lak was asking us why we were outside when Viknesh wanted to talk to Brendan, and tried to get his attention by making the "kissing sound". Unfortunately for Viky, there was also a lady visitor walking past, and turned her gaze to Viky and stared at him, which warranted Mr Lak to smack his back and cursing things like :"You bloody swine! She could be a student's mother you know!"

As I said, it could have been worse, because our neighbouring class, half of them got caned due to excessive talking and we did not...So thank God........

After school there was a Student Prayer Leader meeting for those who were supposed to lead prayers on Thursdays and Fridays, one student per week....And I was getting the bullshit from people who claimed to be to shy when actually some of them are just darn lazy and could not be bothered to read.....

Went with Terence and Roderick to Sharon's house to visit her as she was down with a flu and fever. Roderick showing concern over her, while me and Terence were experimenting with Sharon;s piano. I played the 1st part of Marching Season...:( [still cant complete the song...]
We studied for about one hour and a half before Johnathan came back an hour later, pretty stunned at the sight of us...

Poor Sharon had to stay at home while we 3 guys made our way to watch Gridiron Gang with Olivia and Furtado.

It was a pretty good movie.


Starring: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as Sean Porter


This film is based on a true story of how this man (Sean Porter) , a senior warden at a USA detention centre for juveniles tries to help the boys get a fighting chance back in life by making a football team. Helping the boys go through all their obstacles and emotional barriers.

Well, only The Rock adds in a bit of attitude in it and makes it more american like.

One part of the movie that really touched me was that, While he and his other partner were trying to find a team so the juvenile team could practise on, they found a Christian School that rejected them because they were afraid of their bad behaviour and gangsterism

The partner said :"Sir, I may not know the words exactly, but does not your religion say that :Be mecrciful as Jesus was to you." and :"Do to others in measure what you would have them do in the same measure as you" and "Do not judge others so that God won't judge you"\


Go figure...


We all went home after that...packed my books...and i am like so not looking forward to tomorrow


-serve evening mass, and then tuition straight away......




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God Bless...

Robin Williams On Golf

Ever wanted to know how golf was invented? Robin Williams here tells you how a drunk scotsman does it...

(warning...explicit language content... parental guidiance advised)

Retention? A second chance.

It was just another saturday which I did not want to wake up to...but just for the flag day I heaved myself out of my wondorous, comfortable, and soothing bed...just to go to school, collect a stupid can, find myself a partner and go around soliciting for money just for some charity organization.

So reported to school 15min late, listen to Mr Ng's briefing which some of the words i caught were "pretend to be angels for today", "be a professional beggar" and "no going to yadda yadda yadda" I went with Mark, Charles and Terence to the East Coast Parkway, thinking that maybe not many Patricians would be there.

Well, essentially I was right, but the thought of another 3 groups of people soliciting money from the joggers, people at the rocks fishing, barbequing (so early in the morning) , rollerblading and what not....

I must say, some Singaporeans are pretty ugly......Throughout this experience, I have learnt that when doing flag day you encounter 3 types of people.

1st type you encounter are those who just smile or say something and walk past you and then the fake smile you put on falters a little

2nd type is those who actually stop, take a look at the money can and ask what organization are we doing for. We explain and they put in a coin or sometimes if they like it, a note. Simple and Clean.

3rd type is those joggers who claim while running their ass off that they have no money...

(speaking of which there was this jogger who i asked, he said like :" Im sorry man, i aint got no money man." after which he tapped my shoulder" im like "o............................k........but at least he was nice)

Of course there were many other types too like some bastards who REALLY pissed me off by actually smirking and putting on a haughty look.

Like, what the hell...we are sacrificing our time and energy raising funds for the poor and here you are smirking and calling us a bunch of losers who have no life.

To these people, you do not know what it is like having to throw your pride away, begging for money for those in need.


And throwing away your pride as a guy can be very difficult. Just yesterday, the group of us went for Curia meeting...after which Solomon decided to go out with his STC galz to IMM at Jurong much to the displease of Brother Edward, who in turn gave me, Royston and Charles a lift to go to our Confirmation Class, and that was when I received my blow of the day"

After the Con 2 class, my cathechist told me that since I missed so many classes I have to repeat again...

At that time, I felt my world crashing down on me. I was already one year behind my rightful class and now I have to go one step down further? and besides, the reason why I missed so many classes was because of the Mindchamps course i was going through which lasted for 3 months.

I remained pretty upset about it, and now I know how Roderick felt...I pulled a long face until the time where the group of us (me, oli, sharon, terence,roderick) went to Parkway and we stoned in the food court for awhile.

I thought about, the people whom I did flag day for, the 'O' level results which Oli, Sharon and all my other friends are awaiting in great anxiety for. I realize how self-centered I am. I am blinded by my own problems that I fail to see the greater problems of others. All of a sudden I realize how simple it is to solve my problem :

'Don't screw this chance up again. Throw away your pride, stick with your younger brothers and go through Confirmation class again."

So we decided to go to arcade and distress a little...got owned totally by the Time Crisis 4 machine"

Terence, Roderick and Sharon were rocking away by playing the new DDR machine...pretty tiring for the 3 of them. Roderick and Terence found out a way to cheat the machine by using just 1 credit so 2 people can play.

Terence played with Roderick the beginner's mode before Olivia and I came and took over a very leg-pained and tired Roderick and Terence

Olivia was attracting a small crowd when she played the basic and difficult mode of some songs, one of which was "Paranoia" i felt kinda ashamed since i playing only the basic and beginner's part :P

We went home...thinking of our problems and I could not on the com coz it cocked up =.=...thus i missed my chance to tok to hem


Woke up again at Sunday morning to go for my NEW cathechism class.....and threw away my pride I did.....Stepping into the AVA room where our class was held, I saw some familiar faces.

Furtado(punani), Ralph, Eunice, Angela, Sabrina and Daryl were the YFs (Youth Facilitators for that class which they will follow up for 3 and 1/2 years)

Mila,Christina and Jeremy were my cathechists.....

Then there were people like Aaron Tan, Johnathan Chan (Sharon's bro) and Ryan Koh all seated in one group.

I did not feel so lonely after all...We had games (the newspaper game which we won and got ourselves a Marks and Spencer Chocalate but we gave it back to the facils coz neither of us sort of wanted to try kiwi flavoured...................kinda regret it now......:P) , Praise and Worship and we went through the ground rules for the class.

1st class is not bad...but future won't be so slack as now....

Cat class aside..I served 11,15 mass and Joshua paid me $150 for the PSP. $ :D $ After which I went for breakfast...

Attended altar servers meeting....which we all listened to Greg talking about things like committment (now im like dedicating 3 days to serving mass) , upcoming events Chrism mass, Holy week... and apparently still NOBODY wants to come to sunday 6pm. T_T

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Went to Lan for awhile, ate my lunch and then served mass with Daniel Pakiam... I was damn absent minded today as I was supposed to bear crucifix today.

When it was the time for me to go into the sacristy for me to get ready, I asked Daniel to do it as sub-consiously i thought he was the one who was supposed to do it...It was not until final blessing i went in out of frustration and I realized that I'M the one supposd to do it........



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After getting $5 from my sis, i had my dinner... and i went home......

my life feels kinda hectic now......so many committments...servers...tuition...school....legion....friends..........how the hell do i manage man......................

Hope that the grace of God will pull me through...

Have a great school week ahead!








argh..................school

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Legion of Mary AGR 2006 Slideshow

So many memories on our curia....

Credits go to Dannel George for making this slideshow

enjoy!

Gaussian Blur

This song is in a game called O2Jam. For those of you who don't know what o2jam is...essentially it is like dance dance revolution, but only thing its done on keyboard with the keys :" S,D,F (space bar) J, K, L"

This is one of my favourite songs and the hardest in the game...lvl 50...haha i would like to see any pianist play this in real life...

It may not be easy

It was really terrible at school today...

After Combined Humans period, I wanted to get a few minutes of sleep by resting my head on the table before Mother Tounge class started. I was suddenly awoken by a commotion, and I stood up and saw Viknesh lying on the ground in agony, and then I tried to help him up. I thought that he had a very serious fall

****** said he would bring him to the sick bay. Kashfun and I immediately went out of the class and we saw Mr Lak, our principal. We reported the incident to him.

Then we were sort of stared pretty maliciously by some people. It was only until when Brendan told me that Viknesh did not fall, but got beaten up, and as a result I indirectly sabotaged the 3 other classmates.

Apparently Viknesh was trying to tell ****** mother's name to the whole class... ****** then started to beat him up followed by ****** and ******* who joined him and started beating him together...

I knew nothing of these when i reported this to Mr Lak...and very badly, I regret that decision as I would have prefered to have known the truth before reporting it...

I am not sure if I did the right thing by reporting it. Was I seriously overreacting? Should I have left the issue for themselves to settle it? I kept pondering over it during chinese class. When school got dismissed I kinda saw ******* with a yellow form, which made me think all the more that not reporting it was a better option.

But today when i flipped through my social studies text book before the incident, I caught the words on the page where "what a good leader should be", I saw the words:"Doing what is right instead of what is popular and pleasing to the crowd"

Moral Courage, it is not easy to display a sense of it. Going against the crowd will only lend you in deep shame.

What is courage?? Being brave? Not scared of doing a particular feat like bungee jumping?

i don't think so...................................

Courage is that you are scared of doing something, but you still do it anyway, conquering your own fear of the consequences.

I was feeling pretty down throughout the school time.......thinking of how i may be rejected in class.

But I put all that away, consoling myself that this is my line of duty, and I am expected to deal with this kind of shit.

Anyways, went to the airport to see my friends again. When I arrived at Burger King i realized that there was no one there at all. I used the payphone to phone up Roderick, and he, Terence zhaoed school (=.=) to go out with Olivia and Sharon to Parkway Parade and have fun. They joined me about half and hour later..

Played cards as usual while poor Oli had to work her shift...talked a lot of bullshit while Roderick was showing alot of PDA, which kind of made me and Terence feel weird...We did not stay long as Roderick had to go for his Japanese Language class and i had to go home too.


I slept pretty early...like at about 8 pm...grateful to God that no matter how much my class may hate or reject me, I still have this group of my friends to be with, and that is all that matters to me, :D

St Patrick's School Military Band Passing Out Parade Sec 2s 2007 batch

Woke up from my afternoon nap...Had my horrible lunch cooked by my dad (chef-pose) and I left for school to watch the POP

I entered through the backgate, stoned for like 1 hour coz i had to pass Terence something earlier....before i went up to the hall and watch the parade

Too bad God decided to rain on the Band's parade today...literally...and for one thing I was actually praying for the weather to be clear...just for the band

Anyway..the event was kicked off by the procession of the sec 2s led by their band major.

While waiting for the Guest of Honour, Miss Fang, principal of St Stephen's School, The senior band played "Breaking Free" by High School Musical...

The GOH arrived everyone was seated down....

Then, there was the ceremonial letters of commendation where promotion of band members were announced...things like best section etc etc were also annoucned...the whole thing took like 1 hour at least...

After which we came to the actual concert... The SSS brass band put up quite a performance seeing that there were only at a full strength of 20+ They played oldies like "Twist and Shout" "Smoke on water"

They even combined with the SPS junior band to play some other song...

But the one I was looking forward to was the Advanced Band which were composed of Upper Secondary Patricians...

Under the Baton of Mr David Glosz, Band Master of SPSMB, they played my dad's favourite piece, :" Puggininny's Rhapsody" (dunnno how to spell) which was composed by Rachmuninov




The parade ended off and we did not bother to get some refreshments.

The 4 of us: Oli, Sharon, I and Roderick decided to go to Tampinese Mall..which we ate some stuff and literally went home after that...we did not do much......the bus rides and Mrt rides were cool though...laughing here and there...attracting stares from other commuters...


From Kembangan Station I walked all the way home


Anyway...Im gonna finally make my new Ez-link card with Oli at Pasir Ris...after that go watch movie again...too bad Terence cant join us tomorrow...sigh





God Bless!

Why

With reference to Miss Fernandez's post on the video...these are the lyrics and Nat, i did not copy and paste from your blog...i put in effort! lhahaha! lols...

ok...solemn now pls....

Why

We rode into town the other day

Just me and my daddy

He said that I'd finally reached that age,

and I could ride...

Next to him on a horse

and of course was not quite as wild

We heard a crowd of people shouting

and so we stopped, to find out why

and there was that man

that my dad said he loved,

but today there was fear in his eyes...

So I said:'Daddy why are they screaming

Why are the faces of some of them beaming

Why is he dressed in that bright purple robe

I'll bet that crown hurts him more than it shows

Daddy please, can't you do something

he looks as though he's gonna cry

You said he was stronger than all of those guys

Daddy please tell me why

Why does everyone want him to die

Later that day, the sky grew cloudy

and Daddy said I should go inside

Somehow he knew things would get stormy

Boy was he right

But i could not keep from wondering if there was something he had to hide

So after he left,

I had to find out,

I was not afraid of getting lost.

So I followed the crowds,

To a hill where I know men had been killed

And I heard a voice come from the cross.

And it said:"Father why are they screaming

Why are the faces of some of them beaming

Why are they casting their lots for my robes

This crown of thorns hurts me more than it shows

Father please, can't You do something?

I know that You must hear my cry,

I thought I could handle a cross of this size

Father, remind me why,

Why does everyone want me to die?

Oh, when will I understand why?

"My precious Son, I hear them screaming

I'm watching the face of the enemy beaming

But soon I wil clothe You in robes of my own

Jesus this hurts me much more than You know

But this dark hour, I must do nothing

Though I've heard your unbearable cry..

The power in Your blood destroys all of their lies

Soon You'll see past their unmerciful eyes

Look their beloved, see the child

Trembling by her father's side

Now I can tell You why

She, is why You must die.

This video is just too good not to be shared...pls share them among your friends and spread God's love for us

THIS IS LIKE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL VID OF THE WEEK. Haha. I'll post anymore if I can find! Anw. Haha. I know I don't know the other contributor, but HELLO!

Fun fun fun

Did not want to leave the comfor of my bed as I had to go to school...Things seemed pretty much as normal until before school assembly began.

Miss Pereira gave me an envelope and left just apologizing for the screwed up envelope which could not stick but was solved by putting a paper clip. My 1st thought was that the envelope contained pictures of the Inaugural Prayer Service. After opening it, I saw it was a card of encouragement. At first I was extremely puzzled as to why she would send me a card when there was no occasion...

Then...I realized that last week I left the house on Saturday to watch the Legion choir...just to escape from Dad and Mom quarelling again about the dishes.........which she talked to me after this...but this happens always..I told her..nothing major....

But the fact that she actually sent a card just to console me really meant a lot to me....

Ma'am, Thank You so much...

P.S (I still await the Inaugural Prayer photos...hahahahah!)


Anyway, got pretty pissed off at my DnT teacher when she lectured me when I came late for class which could not be helped as I was doing car porch duty which would mean I have to miss some lessons due to those bloody buggers who always come late...

I mean, can't be helped....My exco just released me at 8.15 am and I already rushed to class........and there were more latecomers today...still not my fault.....=.= doh.....

School proceeded as usual which after I headed off to the airport to visit my friends again

I was there and I saw Oli working at the shop again....waited for awhile before Terence came along...apparently Terence din go to school today coz of his finger which got injured while trying to fix his window.....



We went to Kinokuniya(however u spell it), Wisma Atria when Oli and Terence wanted to buy some comics......Oli was reminded constantly about work as we passed by a lot of Crystal Jade stalls......lol

After contacting Furtado....we made our way to Plaza Singapura to meet him and Anton who were working as (i dunno wats the proper one word name for this job) people who were moving goods....

We had our dinner at Carl's Junior eating practically French Fries before they knocked off and we took the MRT together...discussing lots of matters..........

We reached the airport and stoned in BK wating for Sharon to knock off her shift..while waiting we played like, 7 hand poker and talked a lot of cock......

I had to leave at 11pm due to family responsibilities =.=

but nevertheless i got to spend time with my friends

and

TGIF ( for those of you who STILL do not understand............ur are truly NOOb)



And tomorrow theres the SPSMB (St Patrick's School Military Band) Passing out Parade for the sec 2s 2007 batch which the group of us would be attending to also give Terence support and to go out for dinner too....


ciao

How do I tell you?

Since Solomon is so addicted to poetry writing, and since he asked me i do might as well do one too.............

How do I tell you how I feel about you?

When

Everytime i think of you my body shakes,

Everytime i see you my knees grow weak and,

Everytime i'm with you i dont want the time to end.

When

Everytime i look into your eyes, i wish i was there,

Everytime i see you smile my heart melts and,

Every night before i go to sleep i pray we dont end.

I've tried somehow to say:

You're the sun that lights up my sky,

The wind that keeps me cool on a hot summer day,

And sweet incense that keeps me on a natural high.

I want so much to tell you:

That without you with me each day my day isn't complete,

That since day one I've always wanted to be with you,

That no matter what's going on in my life,

You're the reason there's a smile on my face,

And that loving you seems to be all I need to know.

But everytime I want to,

The words just wont come out,

to you it may sound mushy or too cute,

you may not believe it so it's better I keep my mouth closed,

than to try to tell you exactly whats on my mind.

Yet I wish to tell you that I'm beginning to love you,

more with each passing of the day

and that I want to be with you,

Come whatever may.

Puke...

=.= been having vomiting spells for the past few days at home and in school.

After my gruelling maths tuition yesterday my dad fetched me to hospital (WTF?!!) just to check on my vomiting....

Doctor told me must be some sort of stomach trouble.....nothing really serious...

But regrets as someone had to take over me to read at assembly prayer this morning...

nth much dats all.....


can't wait to finish off school tomorrow

Something's gotta give

Morning anger is not good for health as it makes your blood pressure goes up higher than usual...

Which was what happened to me after my brother wore my only pair of Reebok shoes to church without asking me, and thus in the process, stinking it...but luckily not beyond redemption, so I will wash it the next Saturday.

My uniform is still not ready and so I have to keep wearing my tailored white pants non-stop to school...

Speaking of school, it has been really hectic as I was put in charge of co-ordinating the servers for the Inaugural Prayer Service Sec 1s of 2007 and also,

I had to experience a very painful event of 2 of my close Legionaries transfering to another praesidium...

Vice President Mark Benedict Cheong Tuck Fai

Senior Legion member Bryan Sng Yong

They were transfered to another praesidium due to their commitment as peer leaders...Peer Leaders meeting every monday which clashes with Legion......

As a result its only left for me, Charles, and Joshua to hold the praesidium together...
I have a few personal doubts about the new VP that Brother Edward wishes to appoint but as President I must guide him properly, since he's just a junior...

God guide us in making this important decision...

And I was under a bit of pressure today as I had to serve a weekend mass alone, one man's show...

Joseph got enlisted in to NS and Daniel could not make it for some reason.

I better bring this up to the President of the society (a.k.a my bro)...we defintetly need more servers for Sunday 6pm mass..Father Patrick was pretty shocked about it

oh, one thing to be joyous about is that now i have radioblogclub in my blog...So readers can choose from a list of songs to hear...

Credits goes solely to my friend Nathalie...Thanks so much for helping out :D !

School starts tomorrow with a new timetable and a final rehearsal for Inaugural Service

damn sec 1s....grrr..............making school so hectic on top of the list of work...................

God Bless and have a great week ahead!

Introduction

Ironically this will not be the 1st post of my blog since my friend had to steal it from me but apologized by helping me set up a tagboard

Just a little intro to my blog

This blog as my dear friend mentioned is for legion, my life and contact work...

So do expect to see some stuff about Legion of Mary...

My fellow legionaries are also allowed to post in my blog and vice versa.

Since its my 1st post...i shall introduce you to my Mother.

Sorry for I am unable to post any pictures properly...when I find out I will post i promise..

Behold, the handmaid of the Lord

Mother Mary, She who comes forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, and to Satan and his demons, terrible as an army set in battle array.

Mother Mary is a very revered figure among us Catholics as we see her as the Virgin Mother of Jesus Christ.

We show devotion to her

We have her Legion...

And another of which is the Rosary

The Rosary is the main prayer of Mother Mary

It begins with one "Our Father", ten "Hail Mary" and one "Glory Be" which concludes one decade of the Rosary

The rosary has 5 decades...we meditate on the mysteries too..

There are 3..... wait...no correction 4.....The Joyful Mysteries, The Sorrowful Mysteries, The Glorious Mysteries and recently added by the late Pope John Paul II, the Luminous Mysteries.

Depending on the day, we meditate on different Mysteries.

Very few people realize the true power of the Rosary

Father Gabriel Amorth, chief exorcist of the Vatican writes:

One day a colleague of mine heard the devil say during an exorcism:
"Every Hail Mary is like a blow on my head. If Christians knew how
powerful the Rosary was, it would be my end." The secret that makes
this prayer so effective is that the Rosary is both prayer and
meditation. It is addressed to the Father, to the Blessed Virgin, and
to the Holy Trinity, and is a meditation centered on Christ.
I write in addition to the above: Please enunciate each word of the
Rosary clearly and distinctly. Do not¢ trample on the heels' of the words of anyone
with your words. Do not speak over the leader, if you are
following, or the responders if you are leading the Rosary.
Remember that they also are having a conversation with Mary Our
Mother and it is not polite to speak when someone else is speaking.
In the case of the public Rosary there are only two people
speaking, the Leader and the Responders. Each are speaking to their Mother and listening carefully to her
response within their hearts as they meditate on the scene before them in their
consideration of the mystery being spoken of and interpreted and
translated into their lives. Spread this powerful prayer of exorcism, the
Rosary which contains the Our Father, the Perfect Prayer, prayed
five times in the recitation of each set of the Rosary's Mysteries, backed up by the
powerful prayers of Our Mother who prays with us as we pray 53 Hail Marys.
The Eternal Father described to a group of us, through a Visionary Friend
of mine, what happens when we pray the Rosary, saying, "When you pray
Holy Mary Mother of God, pray for us sinners now....., the Blessed
Mother comes instantly to your side to pray with you. And she
does not come alone. She brings angels with her. And not just one
or two for she is the Queen of Angels, so choirs of angels come with her.
And she and Jesus are joined at the heart and cannot be separated so
she brings Jesus with her. And Jesus cannot be separated from the Trinity so He
Brings the Father and the Holy Spirit with Him. And where the Holy Trinity
is all of creation is and you are surrounded by such beauty and
light as you cannot imagine in this life. Your Mother comes as Our Lady of Grace
with her hands out-stretched. Rays of light emit from her hands piercing
your body, healing you and filling you with graces. This is your inheritance
which was poured out from the heart of Jesus on the Cross, when the
centurion pierced His Heart with the spear, into the only pure
vessel ready to receive such graces at that time, Your Mother. Now as you pray the Rosary,
or even just recite one Hail Mary, you receive your portion of these graces."
He also said at this time, "Anyone who goes to Marmora and prays
the Rosary cannot be touched by Satan." Is it any wonder that
anyone who prays the Rosary from the heart is so blessed and protected and
powerful in their prayers for others?"

There are also many other different prayers like the Catena, which joins every single legionary to our Commander and Mother, the Memorare, Hail Holy Queen.

Mother Mary intercedes for us to God our Father, If only we knew how much She loved us, we would kneel down and weep...

Children, honour thy father and mother, for this is what God wants

How beautiful, a mother's love is for her child.

Thank You, my Mother.

I start 1st!!! Wooo!!!

This blog is meant for a few purposes. It is meant for people to understand a few things and at the same time allow some people to express their feelings or problems.
-Abt Legion.
-Abt Contact Work.
-Abt Benjamin's Life
-Abt Benjamin's friend's life if they too lazy 2 create blog.
-And..for the record..blog ain't a diary. XP