The story of the cube, the Rubik's cube.

- Me amusing myself.




- i think somewhere down the line, the tan's and the lim's met.

I am not going to tell you how the rubik's cube came about because i believe you can access the net and search about the history of the cube and stuff like that. Instead, i am going to tell you how i got my own rubik's cube.

It all started, yesterday.

Yesterday on msn, nat asked if i was doing anything. I said i wasn't.
Than she told me she'll be in church with her mom for some elderly meeting of the ladies of our church. It sounded interesting.... haha. Ok, maybe not interesting interesting but well, interesting nevertheless. So i said why not. Ok that wasn't exactly what i said but you get what i mean.

So off i went to church with my bro.

When i reached, i was surprised i was early.
I waited not long maybe about 25mins, before nat arrived.
Oh, oh but before that, i helped this old lady who was carrying something really heavy.
And boy was it heavy. So i am glad i helped her.
Anyways, it turned out that the old lady was attending the same meeting as i was.
Well, kind of.
So than nat and i went up and i got to hold her precious SLR.
It was magnificent.
It had a particular sound when you took a shot.
And i loved it.
Oh no, don't worry i am not coveting. =)
Just describing.

Other than taking a few shots here there and everywhere,
we also helped them set up the dvd and TV, ate some food,
and yeah thats about it.

After the meeting, nat and i went to vivo.
Walked around, talked. You know the stuff you do at vivo.
Than after that, we went into Toys R Us and behold i saw the .....
RUBIK'S CUBE!!!!

Yes. It was love at first sight.
But sadly, monetary issues kept us apart.
I didn't bring enough money that day,
hence i would have to come back the next day, which is today to buy it.
Separation was tough but it was meant to be.

So after that, nat and i meant her sis and her mom for dinner.
What lovely people. The dinner was great.
The ambiance was pretty. And the people were lovely.
Like i said.
We ate at this jap restaurant downstairs vivo @ B1 which i never knew existed.
It was cool. I ate Suba something-something, which actually in english was mackerel.

After we were done, the waitress came to us with the bill.
Nat dared me to ask her why the whole crew would yell something in jap whenever someone entered. The exact words? " I dare you to ask her what she saying, if you dare i'll buy for you the rubik's cube." Suddenly, the dare sounded interesting.
And to cut the long story short, i did.
I dared.
And that is how i got my lovely little 3 by 3 cube.
Its the best thing ever.
Best puzzle ever.
Better than soduku (which isnt even fun) , scrabble, word puzzles, you name it.

What attracts you most to it, is that the more you play with it the more you want to play with it.
The more determined you become.
Mr. Rubik sure was a genius to invent something like that.

At the moment, i can only solve one side.
I cannot solve all at one go.
But i soon hope to be able to.
And of possible the world record holder. =)

I only have one thing to say....

"LONG LIVE THE RUBIK'S CUBE!".

Post 99/Debate comp/

These darker shots are 'darken' by nat.
Shes the best. =)



The Shadow of friendship. OR. we are 'dai lao ban'.
hmm i prefer 'dai lao ban' cause thats what i am gonna be.




My 'high class' gummy bears. I bought em from cocoa trees. (the shop of course.)







Best foot forward.

Whoa.. i just realized this is post 99! Almost a 100! whee... 1 more to a 100.
Hmm.... i have been pretty slack in blogging lately, but you can't blame me for that because i have been really busy last week and the week before. School just started and apparently, i am still adjusting. Well, at least i write the year as 2008 now. =) Anyways, i also realized that it just isn't blogging that i have been slacking in, its well, almost EVERYTHING. Like, i just don't feel like doing anything school-related besides my CCA's band and debate now. (yes, i do like band. Weird though, its like i grew-to-like kind of thing, inky yes i know, but its true. Perheps its the friends and bonds you form unconsciously and you only realize it when you stop going. Like for eg, last week i missed all my band trainings for debate as there was a competition, in which we didn't even win ( more on that later.. and yes a bracket in a bracket, don't you learn algebra?!?) I felt so, so, so musically deprived. Yes, there is such a thing.

Oh and speaking of the debate comp (yes, ms hia this is for you... you better read it.)
It was so... well discouraging, because you put in so much effort but you just don't see the results.
Results, results, results.
Thats what i need.
But what i have been having is, (instead)
processes, processes, processes.
Hmm... maybe now is the process period.
Not the results period.
And it seems as though sometimes its never ending.
Well, thats when you practice this " When the going gets tough, the tough get going".
Hmm... but i am curious (this is my 2nd hmm already...i need more expressions)
what if you aren't tough, does that mean you don't get going??
Maybe. (2nd time i am using maybe.)
Maybe not. (3rd)
I am not so sure.
But what i am sure of is, when i talk alot, and express things aloud or rather outloud,
I process better. No process as in think.
Which is why in debate. Never ask me to brainstorm. I usually dont get anything.
Mainly because we don't talk and whats more have to remain silent.
Wow.
An amazing feat.
I wonder how debaters do that.
Anyway, back to the point (its a amazing how far i can drift from the point, which is.... see you forgot, i really drifted.... the point is about the debate comp... haha, do i hear a "oh yeah..."??, if not, than your memory's just as bad as mind. Good, we're in the same boat. But unfortunately, its sinking....)
ANYWAYS... (before i start drifting again...)
Debate Comp.
Hmm.... well, all i know is that i really really really tried my best.
And to be honest, i am proud of myself.
I can say in full confidence, that i did my best and there was nothing i could do to make my performance better. But don't get me wrong, it doesn't mean that i will not improve. Of course i will. Even Rachel Kwai (or however you spell it... oh and FYI shes the best debater according to everyone except me cause i really haven't heard her speak... yet.) has room for improvement!

Yeah but the day past really fast.
The schools we faced were RI and Xin Min to both we fell to.
Sadly.
But it was interesting.
Once again, it was an interesting process or also known as exposure or what ever you call it.

Anyways, on a lighter note, here are some pics of jamie's birthday. Er, they are above.
Too lazy to bring em down.

2nd Week of Schoo/Birthdays/Undignified

It is only the second week of school and i already have bagloads of homework. How encouraging.
No honestly, its so tiring. Especially when you take 2 CCA's which in total requires you to stay back 4 times out of the 5 day week in school. And we usually stay back till 6 plus.
Yup.

But i am proud of myself. I managed to clear 95% of my homework on a friday night.
Friday nights are the best.
But they past too quickly.
Far too quickly.
Because before you know it, its sunday night again and you find yourself dreading monday.

Anyways, i am not here to brood.
Or maybe i am.

But, tomorrow is saturday!
Yes!!
Finally....
Its like,
"where have you been saturday?"
"As usual, after friday, before sunday..."
"I knew it."

Hmm saturday.
Speaking of saturday or typing of saturday.
Tomorrow.

Things i have on:

1. Debate workshop in the morning.
2. Friend's birthday lunch.
3. Undignified.

Yup.

Thats what i am having on sat.

Hope Undignified will really be Undignifiedly Undignified.

Its ok if you don't get it.
You will, one day.
On, Undignified day.
Tomorrow.
5pm.
Here.

Mr.Turner

Its this song called "Mr. Turner". Its really good.
I couldnt get the song alone so i found this on youtube just for the song.
There isnt a vid. It is by Ruthrock. They opened for switchfoot and have teamed
up with them as well as relient K performing the song "rebuild".

Watch out for the part at 2.13ish, the build up.
It really sounds like coldplay.

Flu/Switchfoot tickets

Today, i went to the doctor's around 12.25pm. The clinic was closing @ 12.30pm. Thank God we made it there. Apparently according to the doctor, i have a "very bad throat infection". Which i guess accounts for the terrible pain i feel, coughing, throat-loads of phlegm, a slight fever which causes the air in my throat to feel really really hot, blocked nose, blocked ears.
Thanks to the flu, now i can't hear more than ever ...
Yup.

After getting the medicine. My parents and i sent my bro to church and than we ate at TB 79.
After that, we sent my mom to a church for some meeting..

Now, here comes the more exciting part.
My pop and i went to the indoor stadium to collect the Switchfoot Tickets!
It was really exciting.. Even for me!
Ok... so only for me.. But still.....
haha. And than since we ordered in a massive group of 21, (okay, maybe not that massive)
My dad asked for 21 ticket envelopes, one for each.
The counter lady was like "Oh.. Okay..." and than she starting counting the envelopes.

Well, today is sat.. Sat night.
The first sat of the year.
And so quickly it is slipping by.
This year we changed classes.
Sadly... i am in 2A with very little friends.
But its ok, i am sure there are more to come.
i hope.

And so the countdown starts,
26 more days to the concert.

Back-To-School blues

Heres a little something to chase away the back-to-school blues.
Its a spoof of the movie Saw 4, which totally went wrong....
Hilarious.

Lugauke on google.

In light of knowing that my friends blog was on google. (When you search for it)
I decieded to give it a little try of my own.
Lo and Behold! Lugauke was spotted! (As inserted)
It will come out if you type "uke is the epitome of understated cool" or "lugauke".
I think its because google bought over blogspot hence, the appearance of my blog
on their search results.

The Problem of Pain - C.S Lewis.

If you think that pain doesn't add up at all in your equation with God, read this.
By the unconventional C.S Lewis.

Heres a funny-but-makes-alot-of-sense quote i found on the net.

"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable?
Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable."
- C. S. Lewis

boston

Watch and listen!



Or just listen!

Really melodious.
Piano. Vocals. = Good music.

Sunday frisbee/today's band/Switchfoot concert

On sunday, after church, the girls (which included, nat,sarah,juni,vera) went to play frisbee @ sentosa with our teachers, gracie, azmi and justin (our P6 teacher). The surprising thing was, that no boys from our class went. Yes, and its kinda ironic, or weird because well normally boys take part in sports more actively than girls, but in this case its the exact opposite! It really breaks the stereotype of girls. Which is good of course. =) i guess. but bad for boys.

Anyways, the day went great. We played. We had fun. We were happy.
Oh yes, thank God for the awesome weather. Yes, i said awesome.
Because these few days, it has been raining quite a bit. But not on sunday.
Not on that particular sunday.
In fact, the weather was so good, that the sun wasn't too hot, and there was a little drizzle,
but than again, it was a little drizzle.
The whole day was kept cool.
Because God answered my prayers.
Yes, prayer works.
You better believe it. ;)

We did have a bit of problem going there at first though.
After eating at Seah Im, we headed to vivo.
Unfortunately, the queue for the train to sentosa was longer than long.

It was VERY VERY VERY x a googolplex long. Yes, it was that long.

After much deliberation, we decided to take the bus there.
Which was a good idea, because the bus didn't take long to arrive.

And so, we were on our way to sentosa.
To what would be a very frisbee-filled afternoon!

When we got there, the weather was awesome like i said.
Not too hot, not too cold.
Just nice.

So than we played.
and played.
and played.
and played.

We swooped teams occasionally.

Juniper always marked me, and i always marked her.
I think she did a much better job if you minus the fact that she was holding my hand when i was trying to get the frisbee. (FYI, this is not allowed if you play properly, not that we weren't but you get what i mean.)

But than again i did that to her too. (;
So it was all in good will and fun.

Azmi tried to play, to the delight of my friends.
We found him, well, 'cute'.
If you might say. Yes, but that cute, the other cute.
We appreciated that at least he tried.
Thats what counts ;)
And also he took glorious shots with his canon camera.

I was competing with him.
He won only because he was using a canon camera (which could select colours to emphasize on... and a WHOLE lot of other stuff..)

After frisbee, we headed back to mainland Singapore to eat.
We unanimously decided to eat @ vivo after i finally managed to convince juni.

We ate downstairs at kopitiam because it was cheaper comparatively to the other hawker centers in vivo.

Justin, our ex-teacher, was well, lets just say i got to see the true side of him.
Endless chatter, comments, re-enactments of the day all done by him.
Yup, i didn't know he talk that much either.

So, after dinner we split or splited (if there is such a word) up.
Well, mostly justin, cause nat's mom was kind enough to send me home, and we decided to walk juni to the bus-stop. To make sure she was safe and sound. :)
Sigh what can i say? We are good friends. Or reliable friends. haha.

As we walked we talked.
And as we did that, we attracted quite a bit of attention.
But it wasn't intentional.
We were laughing and just being silly.
Which of course attracts attention.
Mainly because,
1. people are curious (kay-poh, singaporean way of saying curious)
2. people envy us.

I mean who doesn't like to laugh right???
Maybe their thinking, "sigh, i wish i were like that too.."
You know how i know?
I get that feeling too when i see people laugh.
Its a natural reaction.
Because naturally people want to be happy.
Who wants to be sad??

Anyways, after we sent juni to the bus stop, her bus soon arrived and we left. (nat and i)

That was sunday.

Today. Wednesday. 1 day after christmas.

I had to wake up at an unearthly hour (7 40am) for band.
The symphonic band in which is my Co-Curriculum activity aka CCA.
But, band wasn't all that bad after you get over the fact that you have to wake up at an unearthly hour for it.

I got to play the timpani!
Yup, i had to read a musical score.
For real.
It was challenging but fun.

In case you are not sure what timpani's are, there are these huge looking drums,
that are actually tuned to notes like (eg:G,F,B-flat,C)

It was good.
Band was.
Except for the part where we had to 'exercise'.

Anyways, enough on band.
Today, is the first day sistic has put switchfoot's concert on their website!!

Check it out! Here. Link on the 'here'.
Booking starts on the 31st Dec.
Good yet bad.
Good because we can start ordering.
Bad because it's the last day of the year. (as well as holidays, which signify the start of school)

bummer.

Oh well, lets be thankful eh?
At least there was a break :)

Oh and if you know me and want to come for the switchfoot concert, pls comment or email me @ priscillacomiccooper@msn.com so that we can buy as a big o group which means more discounts. :)


Peace,
pris.

Music Therapy #1: worship.

I searched for You, my God of Strength.
I Bow to You in my brokeness.
No other King could i so humbly come.
To save my soul and heal my heart.

I have nothing more,
than all You offer me.
There is nothing more,
thats of worth to me.

And i love You Lord.
You rescued me.
You are all that i want.
You're all i need.

(chorus)
In Your Freedom,
i will live.

I offer devotion.
I offer devotion.

-Hillsong United/ Saviour King album



Oh Lord, You've searched me.
You know my way,
Even when i fail You.

I know You love me.

Your holy presence
surrounding me
In every season

I know You love me
I know You love me

(chorus)
At the cross i bow my knee
Where Your blood was shed for me
There's no greater love than this.

You have overcome the grave
Your glory fills the highest place.
What can separate me now?

You go before me.
You shield my way
Your hand upholds me

I know you love me.

-Hillsong United/ Mighty to Save album.



Amazing grace
How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost, but now I'm found
Was blind, but now I see

Twas grace that taught my heart to fear
And grace my fears relieved
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed

My chains are gone
I've been set free
My God, my Savior has ransomed me
And like a flood His mercy reigns
Unending love, Amazing grace

The Lord has promised good to me
His word my hope secures
He will my shield and portion be
As long as life endures

The earth shall soon dissolve like snow
The sun forbear to shine
But God, Who called me here below
Will be forever mine
Will be forever mine
You are forever mine

Chris Tomlin.

Cooking/Juni's concert

Lately this holiday, i have been cooking. Maybe its to take boredom of my mind. Anyways, i have cooked lots of stuff including, roti prata, potatos, noodles, etc.... The best part about cooking is that you can experiment with food and not get accused of 'playing with food' which is unacceptable in our culture or any culture i think.



And here i cooked potatoes! Inspired by my favourite celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver!

It looks really good, but a pity it doesn't taste as good as it looks.



Anyways... Today i attended Juni's choir concert. I thought it was really cute.
The whole event.

I am very proud and happy that i have demolished my bad reputation of being late. =D
I arrived the earliest today for the concert. I arrived at around 4 or 3 mins to 7pm when the meeting time was at 7 30pm.

I sat in the car at first to wait. I didnt want to wait in the building. So i waited and waited until at around 7.13pm my dad walked me to the place. Less than a min when we arrive, nat came in walking in. So my dad left us there.

Nat and i waited there for quite awhile, until we decided to take a little tour of our own around the building. It wasn't a big building so it was ok. We explored here and there. There were 2 levels. It was kinda like a shop house. At least it looked like one. When we were upstairs, we heard the choirs rehearsing. We wanted to take a peek but thought not. (Too pai say)

So than we walked back downstairs again. Walked back and forth. And than not before long we spotted Juniper's family. Than i waved and someone waved back, can't remember who, maybe it was the sis. And than we said "hi" and stuff like that. Than they gave us our tickets. 3 tickets to be exact. For me, nat and gracie.

Because it was free seating we could seat anywhere. So after giving us our tickets they left. We called gracie to ask where she was. She said she was 'on the way'. We waited and waited. And waited and waited and waited and waited and, oh ya, waited. Yes we waited that long. We were supposed to be seated 10mins before which meant 7 50pm because it started at 8pm. Nat and i went outside and waited and waited. For gracie to come. We called her like 3 times and sent her msg 3 times. Yes. She caused us much stress. Everyone was going in except us. It was 3 mins and no sight of her. Finally i called and she arrived. Finally. I told her that she was fortunate we weren't cars or we would have been toiled away long ago because we were standing at the side of the road on the double yellow line.

We quickly went inside and gave our tickets to the person. But it was full downstairs, hence we had to sit upstairs. Upstairs wasn't too bad. Just for the someone-urinated-on-seat-before chairs. They were like cinema seats. Just that these were heavy. Really heavy. Like if you were to stand up, the bottom part of the sit flops back really fast and hits the back part of the chair hard. So dont stand up too quickly.

They didnt start on time but it was ok. When i looked at the ticket i realized something. This was a St.Andrews Choir concert not a Cresent Girls concert but they were guests. "Oh... i see" yup.
I thought that the St.Andrews choir started a bit rough. But otherwise it was ok. It was so good, apparently that gracie dozed off. Yup she did.

When she saw this photo, she said "Ooh.. i look so peaceful!"
Peaceful alright.

But when Cresent came on, she straighten up. Cresent was good. They were really good. And i am not saying this just cause my friend is inside, but seriously they were good.

See for yourself. Or rather hear for yourself. (;
Go to a Cresent concert. The vid is too big to be uploaded.
It will take forever to upload.

During intermission (which was 10mins) we had nothing better to do hence:



After the concert. Food was provided. Yes. I was staving. How timely.
I took a molehill of food while gracie took a mountain. Maybe she was trying to build the Mt.Everest of food, i am not sure. But i was surprised that she finished it all. good on her.

So than after that, i sent nat home while in the process got kinda lost. But its ok. We finally found her house.

Tomorrow.
Frisbee.
Yes!

I hope it doesn't rain.
pray it doesn't.



Celtic/Scottish version



EL Shaddai - Amy Grant

NT: Book of secrets

National Treasure 2, Book of secrets. Awesome show i went to watch it with my pops yesterday @ 10.40am in the morning. Yes. I actually woke up that early. For my favourite movie, why not? I am glad that it was really good and not some letdown. Because alot of sequels do. But not this one.

So, my rating?
I give it 4 and 1/2 stars.

Heres an extended trailer of the movie. Mostly on the car chase scene.



Enjoy.

Frisbee!!

I so can't do that. ;)
Frisbee this sunday after church @ sentosa.
I hope its gonna be a blast.