Bystander has MOVED! AGAIN!

yes, bystander has finally step into Haji Lane, joining the peeps @ Greyhomme!

We are now located at 44 Haji Lane, lvl 2 Greyhomme. Do come and visit!

W50X

yep tt's the name of my new cg. X cos we haven confirmed the new number. Sounds kinda cool but weird at the same time. The feeling over all is just very weird still. I came in, sat beside ly n den looked around, everybody's different now. like wow. A very different feeling that i haven felt in the longest time. Some of us are still trying to catch a glimpse of one another while we can in church, or haf sum chatting moment tgt at atm, foodcourt and jazz pub? It's like a part of us are still stick to one another. Jc n i even mistaken strangers to be wei ning and aaron. haha tt's hilarious.

It's like.. the family bonds are closely knitted.

it definitely will take awhile for us to get used to it. rite e410? =)

STEAMBOAT MANIA!

i tink. im going to stop having steamboat for awhile. Went through countless of it in a wk! i got to say the best food can be found in baba seet's hse! the sambal prawns is superb, but definitely a killer. it's like mega mcspicy X10! gives the stomach a quiver~ This is a gd time to meet up old friends, as well as bid farewell to some(nah it's not tt bad!!!) So here are the photos!

Maven's house!

Been a long time since i seen this pal. Still the same, always splurging on food. spent nearly 200 on food tt day, but we didn't even finish 1/2. He's a bartender now though, so we all got treated wif his mix!

Lileng's hse!

This is our last cg gathering together before all of us head to different cg. But it's all gd yea? Great dinner great company, great gameSSSS. YES!

CNY!

CNY! woots! just a little photo updates that i haven done for awhile!

this is my sis. stop saying she looks like me! i tink she looks like teresa now. omg.

My ah ma!

Fwah. suddenly, u feel time rly flies. Im in army, the one in white going to army, the one in blue. wah so tall already. last yr he still little boy!

The ladies!
This is the first grp photo of the cousins. Have never done it before in the past. Definitely the first after so many years. Ah ma did the positioning of us. It was like a 'class photo' moment for us. i guess?

So much has changed. it's quite weird when you think abt it actually. When i was younger. we didn't rly talk much. maybe we're just shy and all, when the fact is we only see each other once a yr. Everybody was so closed up den. And this year, we can actually feel a tinge of everybody opening up to each other. Quite an awesome feeling. Is tt feeling called kinship? As for my other side of cousins, it's hard for us to meet up unlike in the past, when we all haf our own lives to lead. I recall not seeing my younger cousin for like wat.. 2 yrs? Was kinda weird to see her again. Definitely been awhile, esp when memories flood in or wad we used to do together.. Now it's just an awkward smile.. something tt i haven done in awhile. Nevertheless, this yr cny is better. no matter how bad the economy might be, kinship is the bond tt holds all of us tgt. =)

to start off...

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!

HAPPY 21ST BIRTHDAY GUYSON!

Actually it's on 30th.. just tt im veri lazy to blog lately. hahaha! Anyway the day was spend with great dinner at dan ryan, den to cafe del mar at sentosa and lastly mega mcgriddles at ECP mac! love to post some photos, den again rly veri lazy lei to post up.. soo...

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1816765&id=541331849#/album.php?aid=74555&id=541331849

haha. let's just say it's alot of scandalous sneaky stuff, great food, great company, and a damp bed on the beach!

fwah

i tink. im in love. agnes b boston bag. im such a sucker lately.

hey peeps. sry haven been blogging for awhile. been real busy in camp. Actually it has been so rush tt b4 i know it, it's another wkend gone! Anyway i was supposed to do this last wk but.. oh well.

HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY TO JO!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ANNIE!

Anyway, i have been doing fine in camp, kinda sad tt im still unable to run properly, no cardio workout very taxing to the body! haha im being very random here. But thanks to so many of you that have been praying for me or concerned about me. Army is not so bad, recently just have been eating a lot of sand and dust from all the field camps and training. But everything is fine, im still happy and enjoying it!

Lastly before i break for dinner, i have just been told that i'm going to leave the family with some of the others to join other cgs. Wow, it's been really long since i change cg. few yrs in fact, and i have been stuck to e410 ever since. It's definitely going to be weird to step out again, but it's a new challenge that im going to touch on with marc's cg. I guess 410 will never be the same again with so many of us out, but i know that the spirit we built up there will never change. The vision we cherish will live on. The fire that we build will burn ever brightly! This is what we set on the hill, and nothing can stop us. This is not the END, but a NEW BEGINNING! I yearn many of us will begin to take on bigger giants in life, greater responsibilities too! Change is not bad, it for the better for all of us. Remember, no point building a fire when u cant spread it.

SO LET'S BURN LIKE WILDFIRE!

I once said that wad we haf in our cg, others lack. But wad others have, we lack too. So let's all be the vessels of wad we are, wad we live for and the fire to other cgs. And start alighting them with our FIRE!

Remember, the path might be different from now on, but the ending line will still be the same for all us. It has NEVER change, and it NEVER will. 410 will always be a part of me, a place tt i noe i can fall back on, in times of victory, crisis. everything. Keep on keeping on! GOGOGO!

Love,

Jed

i have 2 hours before my book in. and well, nobody's rly online to chat with either. Thought i spend some time blogging something. heh i guess i rly spend quite a while at home, for like 3 wks? hahaha feels weird to be a civilian n den back to serve again. Tink the most defining moment was cutting my hair short again. lol. weirdness.

anyway i will like to say for 09 rite. this is like wat? the 4th day of the new yr? and im was quite fustrated about sum issues already!

I'll just like to say that sometimes when one's decided to take on an act of being courageous whereby he takes on a responsibility to protect somebody. He must be wise to discern whether his way will be effective, or whether it will affect anyone at all. I admire such acts, but i do know of it's downsides as well. After all, i been thru it, and it costs me a lot.

I wanted to apologise if i said anything wrong to u. But again, i feel that if you're not sharing, u cant possibly help that person. You will just be causing more distress to the others, who are not involved at all. You could tink it doesn't matter, as long as the person is safe. But i tell u, the problem will not be solved by just avoiding it, wad is buried one day will be out again, but by tt time, the problem you buried might haf grown so big cos it's not solved in time. by tt time, are u ready to take wat u buried in? im a person that believes in solving it straight, i dun like to let problems grow on it's own by burying it. I did that once, i regretted it till now.

I will also like to say that everybody deserves a second chance. God gave me more den a second chance. so why couldn't we? We are not perfect, all of us know that we have some flaws. We even see flaws in our friends, so i urge you. Please, why not share it with the person? make it known. if u tink it's awkward, why not do it privately? i mean it's the best we can do as adults. Why not help each other become a better person? Believe in the yellow ribbon project, afterall God believe in it in the first place.

wah. this is a way better post den i written out of anger. haha. told u tis morning was gd!

lol today is the day. feeling abit of jitters. but i noe i'll be fine after last nite. or technically this morning. anyway thanks alot for today. n many ty to lileng for the card.

i feel im like the most blessed nsf around. haha everytime got book in or wat so eva always like high key event. thanks for the love ppl. cya nxt wk!

my last wk out! im kinda happy im finally going back to camp. Been super long already. N this wk i really feel that there's many people of strong will or mentality in the sense in our midst. They just dun reveal themselves to us all the time. Im amazed by the feat they had done. How they manage to emerge out of their circumstances victoriously. Yes, there might be sacrifices at times, it hurts like hell just to take another step forward. but a step at a time, they conquer giants. A step at a time, they walk closer to the light. Before you know it, you emerged out. But ure stronger den b4, matured den b4. Things of the past cant take you down anymore. It's just a fad now compared to wat u are. I'll just like to say i respect each and every one of them from the bottom of my heart, for i cant accomplished wat they did.

I regretted alot of things in my 08. But im not gg to let it put me down tis time. So wad abt army? wad abt my current circumstances? it's nth compared to the trials that they went thru. Now is the dawn of a new horizon. 09. I believe i can achieve much more from now on.

just watch me.

Highlights of 08

08 flew past in a twinkle of the eye. now, we're on our way to 09 alr! So i just thought i post up the highlights of my 08 life. =D

Jed's time in bystander
It was my first try at biz on a main scale wif my friends. i learnt alot during that period of time and sadly due to sum circumstances i had to withdraw. Not alot of people knew abt it yet. But im still rooting for dan to work hard! Anything u nid come find me dude! =)

Our first most decent photoshoot for Spring 08 Collection!

E410 First Valentine's Day

We never had did had Valentine's Day before till 08. haha all the talk about not getting attached in the subzone den was a fad in the past when it was broken by Jc n ly. hahaha! But yes, this was our first 'grp date' since all of us had no date on tt day. It was funny and.. well... fun i tink? U see, on tt day. We sowed a seed for jc n ly. hahaha! big angbaos for all of us.

Brotherhood birthdays

We did it yearly without fail. but this year was quite bad. u noe.. being late and all. but this grp is the most havoc and crazy people i haf ever met during my poly days. We were all from different courses, different lives linked together by ME! haha, wll, jed's onli haf 24 hrs a day den. He cant possibly give it everybody one by one. So i kinda made all of them know each other. Till den, the fun has never stopped!

Graduation Day!
Finally able to step out of the polytechnic and be free! no more late night projects chionging, only late night supper plus chiongsua in camp -.-".

Jed's First Blood Donation
I was not prepared for this at all. Ly n V kinda decided for me and sign me up. N here i was, donating blood to save lives out there! hahaha. I rmb tt the nurse told me it wun hurt as bad as the drawing blood by the army medic, and when she injected me, i turned my head to look at her. YOU BLUFF ME! hahaha! but after tt day, i grew no fear of needles anymore. N my life wif needles began that day. injections after injections! RWAR!

Jed's pre enlistment to army farewell.


I was emo like hell mths before i enlisted. I guess it was the big unknown tt i was going to jump into and i dun like the idea of a freebird being withheld in a cage. Haha, it was a big hoohaa den for me. And it was really stupid now to look back at it. Army has changed me for the better. N i never regretted it ever since then.



My last happy meal that day =(


Changed?
hahaha, my lovely e410 did this for me. n a awesome raspberry cheese cake!

Jc gave this to me! hahaha, but this little bugger went awol on me. Now im still trying to get him back to charge him!

little things of encouragement. You see, this little things helped me tide thru my 08. So, you all are my encouragers of the yr!

NS!!!!
It was the most fun time of my life during my BMT period at Tekong. I lost the most weight there, and everything there was just really fun. There were alot of tough times, but we emerge stronger everytime we walk out of it. I learnt something. "everything is fun. but play one time can already!"

This is a letter from home by my parents when i was in fieldcamp. The toughest time in my BMT period. We went thru hell just to get this letter from home. Cried like hell that day and made me realised that im very very well loved. Thanks, i love you all too.

POP LO!

Finally out of tekong!

Today the sons of Singapore becomes the protector of their very home.

MY BIRTHDAY!

The main event of the year! hahaha every year is no different. The celebration usually lasted a week and im on leave! Super party times!

My cake by the brotherhood. PARTY AT SENTOSA!

Reunion with an old friend. Im kinda glad it worked out now. I missed the times we fought tgt, n weirdly i missed ur scoldings. You were my leader n my very gd friend then. Well, at least we're moving on! Let's conquer the bigger things in life!

=D

Armour infantry in Sungei Gedong!

Honestly, this is the most siong time of my life. Tekong seems like child's play now. But nevertheless, im learning to conquer the things a step at a time! Know alot of new brothers to go thru this tough time together!

First n second injury in army

Sprained my ankle in camp. Thank God for the long mc to let me recover. I guess during this time, i really had a lot of time to know my cg on a deeper relationship. Really good times, but i wish to recover asap to go back and fight!

Lastly, this is a blog post i wrote very long ago in the yr.

hi all. Shyan's getting better, or so the doctor say. If im not wrong, he's conscious and coughing at the moment. Doc say that coughing is good for him, if i haven heard wrong. By thanks for all your prayers so far. I know some of you guys wanna visit him but couldn't cos im currently taking over the shop till this incident is over or Hong's ready to return. Anyway thanks for all your prayers so far. It's really getting better from what i heard, even though it's slow, but it's improving. Thank God for that. =)

here sth's from Hong to you peeps,"Anyway... Really thanks... I don't know how to thank you for helping me and praying for my brother. When times (that) im in a bad mood, (and) pick on (minor) things to throw my tantrum at ya, now u didn't even hold that at heart and came and help me without a single question. Really sincerely thank u. also to derrick and dan. Thank you all (everybody who prayed for shyan)

It was the miracle of the year for ly, v n me. we were dumbfounded rly. Shyan was dying that day, his life clings on by a life support machine den. We didn't know wad to do, except to pray and pray and pray for him. We went to prayed for him. and that day in the hospital, God was with us during one of the prayers. n now. He's well and as joyful as ever. Thank you all for ur prayers, tt day. e410 experienced a miracle together. who says it's impossible now? With God, we managed to do an impossible task!

So it's finally hitting 09! can u sense it? there's more to come! more miracles, more fun! so continue to take the walk with me!

Congee Day

this has by far been my.. i dunno.. eating congee in public looks weird.

At least it's crystal jade's. hahaha!

n now i got diarrhoea too. Think is the new medicine im on.

Leonard n Kel

Marsh: "the congee is like my mum's!"

Jed: "wow. ur mum can cook.. unlike mine.." no la joking la mummy urs awesome!

Eating Congee because of her.
Now im having diarrhoea too!!!!

5:22am

that's why they say there is a time and season for everything. Once u miss it, it's gone.


that's wad happened to me too many times. Like now. i was supposed to blog about something but after a few matches of dota. I totally forgotten wad the content was.


all i rly recall is

this is actually paul smith designs inspired by classic Shakespeare characters: Yorick (Hamlet), Oberon (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), and Mercutio (Romeo and Juliet).

I love wad the artist done with this designs. Always a sucker when it comes to mixing designs with history or even literature in this sense.

Unfortunately, that's all i rmb. Another is about euthanasia. But i will try to work on that n bring out a decent post. till den!

Xmas!

that time of the year again isn't it? Not so much fun this yr, crappy xmas eve dinner wif instant noodles. let's just say last min planning sucks. LOL. Anyway let's make merry ppl!

this is wat i have been doing for the past few wks wif an alien ankle.

Thanks for the cookies gal!

heh. she's like our big sister. just tt she's WAYYYYY younger.

the 'unholy union'hahahahahaha!

Anyway thanks alot for all the well wishes and presents! NOW THE COUNTDOWN TO 09!

JUST A BIG HOOHAAA HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO KELVIN KING & MARSHALL ANG!

YAY! heh marshall no hard feelings for all my dissing ya! too mani ppl are asking wad is wrong wif us. But that is how we communicate wat. I will always rmb the times u jio me out for meal in sk.

HAPPY TIME!

p.s. trying very hard to earn my place in ur bdae bash. heh heh heh

Anyway im just very intrigued by the recent events lately. I have donated like.. i haf no idea how much also. to ex convicts selling stuff, sell tissue uncle, begging auntie, uncle tt eat our leftovers. Wow, bedok is a wonderful place. For me, im always willing to gif to the elderly, esp if they are willing to humble themselves to sell tissue just to make a living to eat and all. Esp the uncle who ate our leftovers, im so.. really impacted by the scene of how the living standards and the bad economy of Singapore has pushed some of the underprivileged to roam around the streets, eating leftovers. I have never imagine myself to see this again after seeing a mother trying to feed her infant by finding food in the rubbish bins in Shenzhen.

But there's a downside to everything. Alot of people actually make use of the public sympathy to earn a living, like forcing their elderly parents to sell tissue while they manage at the back scene. Heard about this story tt the son force his mum to sell tissues and could only return home after selling it. Where have the values of such people went to? No matter wad ur parents done to u, there is no way you could treat them like that, on one very record that they brought you to the world. It's very disheartening to hear that. Moreover my recent encounter with an ex convict trying to sell me a keychain for 10 bucks. I refused politely at first and den he wanted to sell me pens for 4 bucks. I actually do sympathise them but sometimes i do wish that they could be able to work wif wat they haf instead of using their past to earn a living. Moreover, i find most of them polite bt the one yst was really pushing himself on me. His antics of trying to sell me his stuff is just very pushy that i as a marketing student has seen thru very well. It really make me very reluctant to ever purchase any stuff from such people ever again.

I have said so much, but i know tt i know tt i know when i lend and give upon to the poor, i lending to the Lord. sometimes no matter wad people say about giving them money or purchasing their products, i always feel that as long as God sees it. It doesn't really matter whether they're out to cheat me or not. As long as my purpose is right, the fault will not be upon me. So sometimes, i just feel there's no need to make a big fuss abt things like that esp wif the ex convict incident.

I feel gd now~

you lack integrity.

you weren't like that in the past.

Recall. for the times when He came true for you.

Went to see the specialist for my injury yesterday.

I honestly thought it was just a routine check up and i was really concerned about healing fast enough to get back to training (and losing some weight!)

At the end he actually gave me another 2 wks of mc, plus 4 wks of sai kang duty(unfit for duty).

And my camp doctor gave me an additional 2 wks of not using my legs.

Turns out i wun be returning to camp till next yr!

Now im rly concerned over some stuff.

1. MAINTAIN MY CURRENT WEIGHT OR LOSE MORE!

im anoxeric lately. but i failed. and im quite worried abt the fact tt i cant run wif tis leg. which is quite impt. dun wanna stop the momentum!

2. im so screwed for xmas

i haven got any presents. And it's too late to get stuff from overseas too. But turn out i will be spending my xmas outside nicely!

Well, to end off soon so i can head on to DOTA(tt's wat i've been doing ever since im on mc). Just wanna thank you guys for the prayers and concern. I mean it's quite amazing how i always limp n hop on the first day and walk normally on the 2nd day. Nobody in my coy believed i injured my ankle. Think i rly put on a good show! ouch* Think im used to the discomfort which is not good cos im more used to being fine and leaping off from platforms. Hope to conquer soc pretty soon!

update: jc's bdae!

http://www.facebook.com/photos.php?id=541331849#/album.php?aid=66423&id=541331849

here is the photos. im damn lazy to blog it up here. heh, today has been a boring day. Perhaps ltr i'll blog sth decent. been a long while hasn't it? till den!

If you see me online

you guess it. i did it again.

This time round it's a really long break. Hopefully i recover fast enough other den the 6 wks presumption given by the doc.

life is a fight. sometimes u just got to suck it up and take another punch

JC BDAE!

pfft my internet is giving me lotsa trouble. blogger is not letting me upload photos. n facebook too!

this is my last try. if facebook still doesn't work, im just going to upload another day. hahaha!

n my new jeans kinda bleed on my shoes. pfft.

firstly



HAPPY BDAE ADELINE AND JC!



photos to be uploaded tml.



and i bought my jeans!



now im dying for this

or i tink i am. saw one at wisma today. lovely. deadly price. and i aint sure whether this is the one.

i tink im so random lately, im not making any sense and it's starting to make ppl bored.

i dun hate marshall

yes i dun marshall. im blogging while you're talking here on msn. Anyway, juz came back from the sinseh n went to a coma for the nxt 3 hrs. wat a waste! oh well, i'll be gone in an hour's time, so i'll juz update wat i haf been doing wif this swollen leg of mine. i onli realised it's still swollen when the sinseh took out my bandage from the hospital.

lunch at ikea on sun wif the family. woohoo chicken wings!

xmas is right around the corner!

u see. nightlife in sg has become so mundane that we spend hours every week on this console. With money thrown in.
Geylang si ba bu Geylang

OPPS!

haha rmb how i mentioned im gg to break something during soc? Well, that didn't happen! I tink im having more confidence for soc now. It's juz jumping off platforms that's all. heh!

BUT

things still happen ya? heh, dun worry. im recovering by the min. And i gave up the crutches after a few hours. thank you guys for the prayers. It's definitely helping. woots mon nite book in! awesome holidays!