These are the books which I look at everyday!!! AHHH!!! going to blow!!! I have a feeling I'm becomin a nerd!! 

Result of studying too hard. Advertisisng my fave sweet whcih keeps me awake!! 

POS

Abit of chinese now... Zhuan Yan Jian is 2 days towards exams! Im so excited?!?!?! whaha... Or should i sae, scared? Hmm, By faith, i will do well! Amen?! Still Mugging my chinese and amaths. Oh my, all sec 3 amaths seems so foreign to me! Help!

Ive been bz lately. Not realli regarding wad, but its studies! Mugged mugged and more mugged. Bored? yeah... feel so tired.. but, wad to do? Jus gonna put in my best and do well!

Just now went for POS! Oh, i woke up late! Had to rush... did not gel my hair.. so, i look so........ UNGLAM! Argh! But its okay... Lionel Choong will still be as glam no matter wad! (Excuse of little of BHB) Coming back to POS, it was............. FUN! I had such a fun time! Thank God they did not start on time... I was late... They cld haf been waiting for mi??? whahaa.. OOpz.. no la.... its just a normal thing to wait and wait and den start... great time of fellowship... Ive always thot POS is a boring event, but, I WAS WRONG! It was SO SO muCh fuN! WEeee! Im looking forward for the next training.. but 1stly, TIME FOR STUDIES! Bye.. Leave tag k! :P

Seedtime and harvest!!

Many of you would have heard this phrase many times especially in this weeks sermon. Whatever you sow you will reap. Not just money but applies to everything else! If you sow time into your studies you reap results. If you sow seeds of bad thoughts you become a bad man. You sow seeds of bad relationships you end up being hurt. But then again. You sow time into studies you reap results. Sow seeds of faith and you reap an amazing harvest you cannot even begin to imagine. Now the seeds that are in many of our hands is the time we have. It all depends on where are we going to sow it.

Especially yesterday when I was kind of impacted by Bro Alex as he spoke of our brothers in the ministry and the condition of our growth. there is much much more growth to take place for me. Many seeds will need to be sown. Especially in this crucial time. In my O levels and when Emerge in approaching ever so near. Time management will be something that I will have to develop and perhaps perfect!!

By the way just to smack reality into our faces once again, we got 4 days to mid year and 34 days to out O level exams. i can pull through!! Praise God for that!!

2 prim pretty and Glam people!! in other words...a shuai ge and a mei nu...(handsome and pretty)!! bhb yeah...=p 

section 10 ushers...sorry if any of you aint in there man!! 

This is Me and Daryl...took it cause of his new phone!! 

Shi zhi lu kou!! (Don't really know how to spell it)

It has indeed been a while. Been so long since W216. My beloved CG finally went out together...I really missed those times. And today it was rather a happy day cause finally, we managed to squeeze some time since we didn't have CG to go out. Felt really like a family!! Of course we didn't go ou to do nothing. Spent our time playing this game "shi zhi lu kou" sorry but don't really know how to spell it. Its a food game where you head out to link and find different food. Frankly I had doubts in my mind that this won't be too enjoyable cause everyone will be in their own cliques. Vincent split us up into groups and apparently even though I was teamed up with a member from Baoting CG along with Mei Yan. It was realy fun!! We went out finding food thinkin of the wierdest and funniest food!?!? Though it was kind of tiring it all was kind of worth it. Our CG spending time together again!! It all feels like a family again, this was why Cell Groups are made!! I Love W216!!!

Thank You!!

This is gonna be a super short post cause studying now...really wanna thank Mrs Ng!! My tuition teacher!! She actually bought me the new Tao Zhe CD!!! WOOHOO!!! thanks alot man!! I'll get A1 for my chinese O levels!!

Much to say...Too little time

Once again the clock keeps ticking. Time is indeed invaluable in this point of time. Seeming so far yet so near, O levels are drawing nearer each day. Yet amidst the extreme rush for time events are occuring which are to be reckoned with! Past 3 days was the Live recording. It was truly an awesome encounter with the Holy Spirit and with God. It wasn't simply singing for the sake of it or to put it into a cd. It was worship and awesome worship!! Getting down to details would be a very big chore. So go check out other peoples blogs yeah!!

Today was a day which caused many to stop and ponder about themselves and their time spent together. Next monday was the Badmintons team final match against Monfort secondary. It was the best school in badminton. However out of desperation Mr Kuok appealed to us in a very persuasive way to head down to support our school. It started with 4I, then practically every class went forward to say " My whole class will be going down to support." due to the commotion caused we got Daryl to tell them our class would be going down. However some of us weren't too happy arguements arose which caused much tension. I felt the it was really unreasonable to be angry over such petty things.

It was already a rather confusing emotional tense day. Till we had NPCC. This was the last activity we were to have. Somehow we were happy about it!! Frankly I was overjoyed!! Unofficially we would Pass out. However in the NPCC room. Wen An reminded me of the times we spent together in the hot sun, in the push up positions, in joy and happiness!! It kinda touched me and hey. It seems NPCC wasn't that bad and i enjoyed it here!! Till it seems the worst things happened. I would not reveal who did it or what happened but the whole secondary 4 squad was on the verge of being suspended. Although it didn't really matter, it was very shocking as were not going for our last final most enjoyable annual camp if we really got suspended!! A question was raised by officers about our morals and integrity. We really wanted to just burst out in anger and in sadness but I really do hope we can pass out happily!!

Praise!

Many a times we react to situations in many different ways. If we are angry, feeling sad feeling depressed realise you have lost everything. Most of the time we react by shouting scolding keeping everything to ourselves running away or simply giving up on God. But instead ever thought of even offering a praise offering to God?? In the darkest times of your life, say God I still Praise you and say You are My God even through these toughest times. This was what was preached yesterday, although it has been preached multiple times. Its still a refreshing message! Praise is a sacrifice. Anybody who is prospering have no problem praising God but anyone in a ditch would think Praise is indeed a sacrifice. This message really meant something!

Headed to school hoping to study alot today. However, wasn't really able to had to cut my hair and stuff like that. Kinda happy cause My Dennis Koh finally returned me my band. Thank God for that!! Headed to cut my hair in the afternoon. Unbelievably my hair dresser reigned!! Oh no!! Only he knows all my style and everything. Looks like I have to find a new hair dresser to take care of my beautiful hair...=p

Sports Day...

An annual event Maris Stella for some reason keeps organising. Kind of bored of it. Its been what 10 years in this school so yup 10th and final Sports Day. Well I figured since it was my concluding year in Mairs Stella. I tried to enjoy it. Didn't intend to participate. Or so i thought.

School was dismissed at 10.45, Went to Sheng Kai's house along with Desmond Lim to simply slack,rest,sleep, put it in lame man terms, kill time. Went there played some card games. Then ate lunch. We were to report at 12.45 and what do you know. My food came at 12.45!! Was late so caught a cab down.

I was caught off guard and wow!! I was pulled to run for 4 x 100 metres. I was wearing basketball shoes?? They needed people so agreed to run. For some reason was kind of nervous. Even though there was totally no pressure on me. This would pull me down in my performance. I was still feeling this even at the starting line. While I was jumping up and down to keep myself warm. Kenny, yes Frodo kenny, was at the sideline encouraging me. Everything was well of no use frankly!! Till he said 2 magical words a few moments before the kick off. "Lionel, Godspeed!." Upon hearing this frankly I was reminded lets run with God for God Relying on God. Godspeed, to run at God speed. Or that was what it meant. But to me it meant to run with God supplying you that speed!! COuld feel his presence even in that extremely hot weather. Though we didn't win, due to unforseen circumstances. I was still Happy!!

You're not fair, I'm not fair, then who is??

People get angry easily, touch their pride inside of them and you have an arguement or worst a fight! People express this anger in a way that may vary according to situation. Shouting, vulgarities, Fights, quibbles, disputes. Whatever way they express it, one things is for sure. Either one party or both parties suffer. What's this all about??

After recess, me and 6 other guys were not yet properly attired. Be it in singlet or still in PE pants.Mrs Chan came into class and immediately dished out what seems to be the most exaggerated, irrational instructions. "Go change up and stay outside of class till the end of the lesson!" Many of us weren't too happy with it, but we complied. Then one of our worst fears or so we thought came!! Our VP so happened to be walking pass our class. Obviously she stopped to talk to us, this is when Lionel is proud to be a Maris. Mrs Maria Koh is an awesome VP, spoke to us in a calm gentle way, being reasonable and rationalizing things with us. Saying that perhaps its not just us but perhaps the teacher being angry! After she left, The unexpected happened.

The VPs wife, the Discipline master Mr Koh walked by. Immediately requested for us to stay back to see him at 2. Anger raged in all my classmates. Their eyes practically had fire! At 2, we saw him. He spoke to us in a more relaxed way. Was rather surprised. Well he really came hard on one point. Nobody is really fair around. Its not fair that we got sent out, its not fair that the discipline master's wife is the VP! So before you start examining and criticizing others, perhaps you have to start checking yourself. Stop complaining that She's wrong I'm right. But change!! It was kinda good. Even though it was from the DM. To my surprise!! He agreed to return me my Band!! So happy!

Food!! Food!! Food!!

Food is essential to the body. Gives you your much needed nutrients each day. Many seek food to relieve stress some seek food to put on some weight some simply eat cause their pigs. But whatever the reason, man love to eat!! And yes this whole update is all about food!! Different variations of different stories of food!

A hungry practically starving Lionel was home yesterday. Really really hungry. Came home at about 3 pm. Well was expecting frankly a boring stale monotonous meal. Entered in. Questioned my maid what am I gonna eat? To my extreme surprise she gave one of the most touching answers AGAIN!! She replied, oh your brother went to the prata store outside to eat. He drove then he called back to ask if I was eating. My maid didn't know so he just bought back my favorite murtabak!! How incredibly nice!! Begin to see the love of my Brother now!! Food!!

Then today went to eat With Loong and Sijia, ate at sakae sushi after such a long time! This time was expecting a wonderful sumptuous meal!! It was great!! The 1st bite was heaven but the last bite was the direct opposite!! Totally didn't feel like eating anything for the rest of the day!! We even had to smuggle some food and throw it away so we won't get charged extra!!

And finally tomorrow!! I've eaten wonderful meals for the past 2 days. So tomorrow it'll kind of be the direct opposite. Gonna fast tomorrow!! Hope that whatever i consumed today will survive me through the next day!! Even if it doesn't, I'll still rely on God's Strength!!

Finally On the Road!!

Odinary things are made extraodinary by many means and circumstances. Today which was supposed to be a totally simple odinary day was made kinda exciting!! 1st thing. After school was supposed to go for maths remedial but in the end had to help out in the inter-class basketball. Was the table official for the match 4E-4K. Man it was exciting!! Many cool moves were made and things were really close. It really boiled down to the last few seconds!! 15 seconds 4K is leading by one. 5 seconds 4E was leading by 2.When match ended, the score was tied. Tension was really high. Everybody was really 'hot' all almost about to fight. 4K was kinda expected to fight! So well what do you know!? A fight broke out. No suprise seriously. In the end 4K won. If you ask me. They should have lost. 2nd thing, went to study. And finally completed the sec 3B!! Well not just that I was pushed and pressured. Really gave it my all. It was really a fruitful study session!! Thanks to Mdm Tan!! Highlight of the whole day!! Me my mum and my bro went to eat fish & co. so we went home. What do you know!! My bro passed his drivin test!! It was so fun!! He was being annoyed by my mum like the whole trip?? So he was also scolding her like the whole trip?? I concluded If you can scold while driving, you're a good driver!! SO its really a thank God my bro passed and well it was an awesome ride. Makes things very conveniant for me now!

Overview

Weeks have gone by in an instant. Now this week has just passed. The whole week was spent practically studying like a mad man!! Sometimes I feel that I'm gonna explode at times! AHHH!! Well good thing is that the daily trip to the gym during recess periods seem to be rather effective. Muscles aren'y being deflated but Inflated! Hmmm Overview of this week. Tuesday went to eat Gelare again. Now the 2nd time eating it was well not as fantastic anymore. In fact it was kinda horrible!! Even when it was consumed on an empty stomach. It just didn't seem to satisfy me. doubt I'll be eating it for the next few days. Wednesday 4F had one period off chinese! Well we earned it!!! Thursday was pondering and praying whether to go for POS this year. Hmmm, it would be good to go! However this is 'O' level year. Still pondering though. Friday chionged 5 chapters of chinese!! 6 more to go!! Btw changed the blogskin again. Kinda like this one. Background song is Higher by Creed. Used to be one of my favourite songs!

All is lost but all is gained

The count has finally reached 50. 50 more days to the inevitable. 50 days to the chinese o levels. When it hits 40 days. Who knows i may just fast 40 days and 40 nights. No no just kidding. Basketball seriously seems so very foreign to me now. On thursday went to play and it really seems I have lost what skill i had left. Ball control is gone. Shooting way off. hmmm good news is that I'm not getting fat. To think of it. so many months ago. I was INSANE/CRAZY/MAD/OBSESSED, with basketball. Shooting 2000 shots, now well its just a recreational sport. Theres now no turning back to the old Lionel anymore. Well not just that. I was challenged by a friend to complete the whole of sec 3B chinese in one weekend. Frankly I dunno how it can be done. But I believe in the impossible!!

This is a quote from Phil Pringle i kinda like. Just learnt today. At times on the outside we are like this. but then...
 

in the inside I'm like this... 

All i need is you

Of all songs. I felt this song was my Favourite in the new united album...enjoy!


All I Need Is You
by Hillsong United

Left my fear by the side of the road hear You speak
Won't let go fall to my knees as I lift my hands to pray
Got every reason to be here again
Father's love that draws me in
And all my eyes wanna see is a glimpse of You
All I need is You...All I need is You
Is you Lord

One more day and it's not the same
Your spirit calls my heart to sing
Drawn to the voice of my Saviour once again where would
Where would my soul be without Your Son
Gave His life to save the earth
Rest in the thought that You're watching over me

All I need is You...All I need is You Lord...Is You Lord
All I need is You...All I need is You

You hold the universe
You hold everyone on earth
You hold the universe
You hold...You hold...

Awesome!!

There are times when we get tired in the ministry. Frankly thats very often. However we cant get tired of the ministry. Ushering is not just bringing people here and there. We do learn much from it. I was trained developed in this misitry!! Yesterday learnt alot!! Cut story short!! haha!

It was really eventful!! A very thank God day!! 1st miracle!! As some of you may know. I failed my 2nd class drill test. So it was kinda impossible for me to promote to sgt. But hey!! Look at me!! I'm now SGT LIONEL!! =p 2nd miracle Lionel found his wallet! Was jumping for joy in class!! Everything is all by God's grace!

Turns.

The most anticipated time of the week. Yes Friday!! Leading to the weekends is perhaps the most sought after time in the whole week for us students. However, today this wonderful day had a big turn. For the good or for the better?? Nobody really know yet. Miss Maria Koh. Our VP shared with all secondary 4's about the recent change of the JC intakes the MOE have implied. It appears that our batch would be going for the 1st 3 months of JC! To some it may be the next best thing!! But to others, it would seem to be the most unseeming attack to the heart he never expected. This means the school will be using the Prelim Marks, good or bad? Frankly I have no idea. But one thing for sure. I'll have to start accelerating even more!! She also shared with us interesting study tips which really helps!! I just really hope and pray that I'll walk with God thru this tough time!

Many thought that this assembly would be the end of school. Little did we know we were in for a big change. Mrs Chan requested my class to head back to class, there she scolded us for some window problem. It seemed like any other scolding till...tears literally flowed down her eyes. I have never seen this before. Frankly I didn't know how to react! To rejoice or to lower myself and feel for her. The answer was confirmed when Desmond Lau walked up to give a packet of tissue to her. I felt what he did was really good. Respect for that! I realised in this noisy, unthoughtful, self-centered class. There was some heart, and it wasn't afraid to be shown! This incident appears to have changed the way our class sould react to not just Mrs Chan but to all teachers. Good or bad. I have no idea!