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Thanks
I give thanks
Not only for
What I have
But also for
What I will
Soon come
To find.

I give thanks
For trials
And tribulations
That have to
Be overcome.

I give thanks
For the test
That must
Be passed.

I give thanks
For happiness
And pain.
No matter the
Emotion - I
Give thanks
Just the same.

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Sunday, July 01, 2007

i had a fantastic saturday yesterday. it started out quite like any normal saturday morning. i woke up to drilling due to the construction and watched the rerun of smallville on channel 5, then ate the breakfast that Mother bought back from 85. then, the handphone rang, and lo and behold, it was jinzhi on the line, asking if i wanted to go out wif sok, chinmeng and soohwee for a spontaneous lunch. and, how i could i decline having lunch with those friends, could i? and so we met at bugis for lunch at pastamania. the last meal before the gst increase. too bad chinmeng and soo hwee couldnt make it for the lunch.

afterwards, we sent sok off to malaysia at this bus terminal that looked strangely like those kinds in the hk tv dramas when the actors would go before the boarded the bus to shenzhen. it looked exactly like those kinds. after sok left, soo hwee came, and we just randomly walked around before going on bus 197 coz i had to go to church and they wanted to go to bedok.

it was good to meet up with them, even though it was just a short while, nevertheless, we were all very happy to meet up and talk. i guess we all just missed each other lots. haiz...surprisingly, we were all emo-ing at the same time about the same thing on friday. it was quite spectacular.

after church, i went with some of the guys to the closing ceremony of the National Stadium. the match against australia where we lost 3-0 was boring, though singapore did play quite well. (random nugget of information: the first ever match at the national stadium was a hockey match against australia, where we lost 3-0 as well!) coincidences abound...

it was quite an emotional closing ceremony, the hosts, brian and mark richmond were recounting significant events that happened at the stadium, and the entire team singapore marched in in a lap of honour with singapore's only olympic medallist, Tan Howe Liang bearing the singapore flag. we were closest to the fireworks, and it was indeed, quite a spectacle.

it was a night to remember, and it was special to me, having been in this national stadium four times this year, watching in the flesh, one of the most memorable matches ever, singapore vs malaysia, where we won by a penalty shootout, and watching RJ beat MJ 1-0 in the soccer final. i guess the stadium will always bear some special memories. and i do hope that the next stadium, will be even more beautiful than before and will truly embody singapore's sporting glory and history, whatever little of it there might be.

so, it was a saturday to remember. a lunch with old friends, an evening in church and a night of commemeration of one of the icons of Singapore.

9:30 pm