Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Semester 2 Beginnings

Haven't been posting for too long a time. Too many things have happened I guess.

First, there was the Orientation Service where many of us FLers went to for a free dinner. It wasn't much, just a look around and then testing of the time taken for the offerings and the holy communion to be carried out in the new uber cool awesome gigantic-sized worship hall.

Second, for those who are unaware, I shall no longer be using the term 'TM' or 'TMers' or 'TM412', our new name 'Frontline Youth' has already been launched and will be termed together with 'FLers' (Frontliners, according to Ps Dave). Whether or not this will change to FLYers, which still sounds corny, I don't know, but we'll see what catches on this couple of weeks.

Third, there was also the first FLYFellowship at the new church building with seriously the best worship I've ever sang in for the past 2 years (with the new sound system and all). Still need some more time for the AV crew to get up to date and in sync with all the tools, but I think they'll make it. Ian led the worship for that day, and it was pretty much awesome. Although we did have to have two worship practices, one on the Wednesday before, and another one starting from 11am right before FL. Ian was nice enough to buy lunch :D We had like 6 vocalists during all practice and the actual thing itself. Kezia came on Wednesday and Loo Juin replaced her on Saturday. I didn't know Kezia was in the worship team, really, I haven't been seeing her for quite a long time. Well, at least now I know.

Fourth, right after the first Youth Fellowship in church, there was the Prayer Dedication Service in church where we had another awesome worship. I think I lost my voice after that weekend because I was singing too hyper-ly loudly. It was a very new, cool experience because we were like seeing both in Chinese and English and it was awesome. It was like the church in China which was bilingual and even had services in two languages (English and with Chinese translation).

Fifth, the next day was the first official opening of the church with the first adult church service starting at 10am. The worship hall was completely full, all 1124 seats filled up by people who were visiting or were members of the church. Anyway, there was the commissioning of two new pastors: Pastor Tony Ng and Lay Pastor Iris Lee. Ps Tony will be in charge of the Young Adults as well as the CGs. There was also this orchestra during worship which consisted of Grace Teo, Matthew Goh, Isobel, Gladys Wie, Nathanael, Nichola, Rachel, Tze Cin and some others at the back I couldn't quite see. Ian and Chris were both playing guitars. And Shufen sang as usual, including a solo section. So it was pretty cool.

Sixth, we went LAN right after that service and I played for the first time with the rest of my FL Sec 3 batch, CounterStrike 1.6 (not Source because apparently in LAN shops some computers can't work Source properly). I also played L4D for the first proper time (the actual first time wasn't much of playing because I actually stopped halfway saying I didn't want to play) and I only thought that the Smoker was actually doing anything useful. And of course, the hunter, but the Boomer was just lame. The tank was cool though, I used it once and decapitated like 3 people before dying, I never got to use the witch. Yup, so now at least I know some of the L4D game play. The humans grab weapons and advance to checkpoints, fighting off the infected and the horde along the way, and restocking on health and ammo at all the various checkpoints. The infected try to stop them from advancing these checkpoints by killing all of them. But humans have super high HP, so they are quite hard to kill.

And lastly, school begins again with H1N1 on the loose so for this week all classes end at 1.35pm sharp on all the days, I'm not sure about Friday, but I think that is as per normal. Not sure if Chinese Remedial is on that day. The 500+ boarding people have been quarantined in the complex and thus RLP has been postponed and the boarding is no longer next week. Hurrah! It's also not yet confirmed if it will be two weeks from now, so hopefully the alert goes higher so it will get pushed back more.

And finally, the moment we've all been waiting for: The return of Quotable Quotes, newly-packed with Mr Lim's funnyness during CLE class!

Quotable Quotes

"Your [Unit X] not as interesting as my..."
-Mr Lim, our new CLE teacher, replacing KYap
(soon he will be termed PLim)
"Not as interesting as what, sir?"
-Nigel
"Uhh... nevermind."
-Mr Lim

PLim at this point in time asks everyone in class to do a trivia of RI, coz he hasn't been here in three years. So everyone must tell him something he doesn't know about what happened in RI.

"Uhh... RI and RJC has merged."
-Samuel, for his trivia
"Oh woow! I didn't know that!"
-PLim

"RI is interesting now."
-Ern Xu, for his trivia

"Moor is exco. No, Moor sucks."
-PLim

"Our class people makes up []% of people in RLP."
-Ern Xu
"Show-off, lah."
-PLim

"Why are you SMSing in class?"
-PLim, to Ryan
"Because Benedict is SMSing me, so I have to reply."
-Ryan
"Why is Benedict SMSing in class?"
-PLim, looks at Benedict who is right in front of him

"Why is it a closed Rafflesia?"
-PLim
"Because you need to close your... nevermind."
-Nigel

"The fastest way to cut from one corner of RI to the other corner is to cross the swimming pool."
-Edmund
"And why do I have to cut from one corner to the other?"
-PLim
"Things happen."
-Edmund

"If you're hiking, how do you fall asleep?"
-PLim
"Have you met Gregory?"
-Nigel
kaizersabre performed alchemy @ 10:22 PM