In the Bedroom after the War
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February 24, 2009
Kids in my army camp Ivan 'Vern' Poh from URL @ 8:50 AM oh i heard mum went for prayer meeting last weekend. i heard also that dad and mum hung out with Mr Sim and Yen Ping until about 9plus. ain't it cool? swift and clinical, we got them all attending church. they haven't stop talking to me about church eversince. dad is reading the book i passed him. that is simply amazing. haha, family matters. i'm glad my family is saved. it can't be that God uses me by His Grace and get many people saved and when i'm there in Heaven with them, i'm a gulf away from the dearest people that have played a key role in my life. family matters. now there is such liberty i cannot explain. sunday was a good day. it was awesome listening to the testimony and of course also Pastor How's sermon. it was a special word. a special series and something we just have to listen again and again. yesterday was awesome too. it was a day to talk about. you know sometimes you can't help it but to talk about some things, that's such a day. it was a day to be reckon with. you want to find someone and talk about it but you try to delay it because you will lose yourself. haha today... i'm back in camp. well, it feels different too. camp is not as boring as it seems anymore. in fact i enjoy being in camp. there are a lot of things to put into place regarding camp lately and it's really irritating. firstly, i thought of what someone told me some time back. i can't help it being myself in camp, i can't resist the urge to move so now i hardly slack. it's complicated, it feels like liberty being able to be moving fast in camp and moving fast in church. well, you just got to manage the people. at least i think that's it. i can't be that i try reaching out to them and i'm some big slacker. so i've come to a consensus that i should just enjoy camp. secondly, it pays to be a little bit honest. some how i figured that out. in a whole that is so .... eeckk. i guess not many people appreciate the attribute of being idealistic and real. people want their way and it's weird and crappy seeing them do funny things to get their way. i want my way too. but how different? let me just think about that for a second... okay before i go, we'll all have a treat. there's this song that repeatedly play in my mind recently, over this 2 weeks, today i heard it again in camp and here it is. 'Kids' by MGMT. it's quite a hit we can all dance to it. February 20, 2009 our lives in technicolor Ivan 'Vern' Poh from URL @ 12:27 AM dear friends, it is time for some music... i kinda can't wait for coldplay to come on the 23rd march. it's lucky i got tickets. anyway, i'm looking forward to this one particular performance. i really like the instrumental but now they've turned it into a song with lyrics. brilliant... chris martin just know what kind of lyrics and 'oooh's and 'aahh's to put into a song. come, here are 3 versions of it. 1) Official MTV 2) MTV Awards 2009 Performance 3) LIVE Performance By far, my favorite song in viva la vida. i tried playing the lick on my guitar. it's so cool it gets under your skin. anyway this song is titled - life in technicolor 2 coldplay really knows how to make money, another EP man... hahaha 2 years back i saw them live, can't wait for 23rd march! February 18, 2009 glouchester now and then? Ivan 'Vern' Poh from URL @ 8:44 PM just recently, we got ourselves into a pretty weird situation. some of us are speaking really badly. we should abstain from the word' chui'. it's so sinister. it's largely tempting. the more you say it, the more you want to say it. this concept sounds and feels familiar. we've got to get a language atonement. we've got to repent and speak right. it's been 1.5 weeks and my time at glouchester will come to an end soon. it has been largely entertaining and fun. there was definitely more things to do compared to my previous camp. well, the highlight was getting to know people. they're crazy man... y'all won't even believe there's such people around. no, oh no... they are actually really normal. it's been such a pleasure knowing them that's why i kinda exaggerate things a little here. i feel closer to these people i spent 2 weeks with compared to those i spent my entire unit life with. it's pretty funny. well, things happen, i may end up at glouchester again. time flies and i'm glad we on 18th Feb Wednesday 2009. previous 1.5 weeks taught me a huge lesson about life in general. we've got to love life. seize every opportunity. we've got to obey God and know that He is God. Crap, the worst thing is to go against God February 15, 2009 it means alot Ivan 'Vern' Poh from URL @ 1:04 AM i wait for a few things to happen. then i thought i should do this. some hours ago, a lot of us were having the time of our lives at heart fest 09. you see, i'm already excited about 2010 and a couple of us just threw in some ideas of what we're going to have next year. it sounds all good to me. in fact, i browse my contacts on my msn messenger and people talk about heart fest 2010. it's pretty amazing how today stuck on the hearts of some people. it is going to be special. so we're all really beaten up. we're tired, i guess but one sure fact was that we had fun. i'm looking forward to tomorrow and i know it's going to be a blast at the modern day martyrs seminar. today, what really stuck unto our hearts and minds were the smiles of these secondary school students. many hilarious and not so hilarious activity happened but that's precisely what makes it hilarious... hahaha tomorrow is going to be a great day. you don't know how each day means so much.
February 12, 2009 a little something to laugh about Ivan 'Vern' Poh from URL @ 2:05 AM let's have a little something to laugh about tonight. today i had a long day in camp. i totally enjoyed myself. there are things in the military that we can love and enjoy. they are useful takeaways we should learn. there are mindsets and opinions that we should expose ourselves to. without being exposed, we never develop as people. when exposed, we develop! and the most amazing thing is that we grow internally. we mature. i had pepper lunch for lunch. quite cool, we drove to suntec for it. unbelievable but quite fun. just plain acted like a big shot with the real stuff today. haiyo... anyway after camp, a couple of us went to seoul garden. we did quite crazy stuff. we just played. i did stuff an nsf shouldn't do but it's alright. they are zone f people i was hanging out with. too special to care about anything. i can roll on the ground with them if you want. check these out. quite close to that hahahahahahahhahaahah this next one... i sound like an idiot. It's quite weird we did what we did, but we were really crying for some entertainment after a hearty meal. anyway you should see leona eat. he's the most uncle sec 3 you can ever meet. it's a buffet and he really took advantage of it. he's super funny... Jordan and Serene were supposed to be around. What a waste... gdnight now... February 9, 2009 a way out Ivan 'Vern' Poh from URL @ 3:53 PM and... i have a new friend for heart festival! he is secondary 1 this year. he is justin's friend. he came over to my house today at 3pm to hang out with justin, his name is aaron phillips and i just spoke to him, introduced myself and invited him. he is so excited about heart festival after i told him what there was. He yelled, "it is going to be the most amazing day of my life!". hahaha he is so cute. YOU have to invite a new friend. it was kinda fun today. we are on schedule. apparently if we were to lag behind, i'll stay there for 3 weeks instead, which i really don't mind. it's a lot busier than my unit but it's quite slack in terms of schedule. i do nothing in the unit and wait daily until 530pm, here i do something and once i finish doing something i can leave. which i like... haha God is a God of miracles. today i returned to my unit and yes it's true, the guys are staying in. i'm staying out but on top of that, my schedule is so flexible. i was out of camp by 230pm today after completing my work. in fact my officer even took us to holland village for lunch. miracles will follow us all the days of our lives. i so believe in that. now, miracles keep unfolding before me and it is getting so natural. i see God's hand at work and i'm so grateful that He moving. All in all, God is being glorified. who knows what will happen after my attachment, but God knows and He is in charge. 'I am the Lord'. He is the Man in charge. Jehovah Nissi. He's the one that fights and wins for us. wow, He is the Lord my God. He is in charge. alright now, heart festival is in a few days time. i am excited. yesterday was crazy meeting dawn, bong and soo yee. powerful women! now i hope everything is all good. i'm so grateful to God about everything in my life. suddenly today, i feel so thankful of all that He has done for me. leaving camp and seeing people wave goodbye staying in feels really weird. a lot more things... God has spoken so much, directed me so much, showed me many things and revealed to me tons and tons of things. He has paved out my destiny this early 2009. Our God is a good God. Come and taste and see that He is good (: let's wait intently and see what happens to your life and my life. have a great day ahead. He is the Lord my God. Yahweh my God. don't you feel so grateful sometimes? i am so happy... haha you should see me now
February 6, 2009 just your soccer not what you think! Ivan 'Vern' Poh from URL @ 1:54 AM i watched some footage of hilter on youtube and it was really hilarious. i don't know what he was doing, but he was talking about football. haha, the makers really did ruin his dictator image and made him look crappy. well anyway, i think youths today are catching up with more things we usually only get exposed to at a later age. i think exposure is good, but i think pacing is ideal. it's like, nowadays, youths get exposed to things that they ain't ready to dig and they only can deal with the culture shock by tainting that potential that they have. it's not as if it's evil viewership or exposure, but just the timing. it's like exposing toddlers to horror movies. all these things around youths start to define them before they even can define themselves. they come into some sort of responsibility before they are ready for responsibility. it's like, a broken family, dad's gone, you're the oldest, the situation defines you to be head of the house hold, as a result of that, you have a default responsibility. and youths, me and you, we start to live out that responsibility because we feel burdened about it. that's how youths are leaders but that also diminishes the potential in you and me. with all these exposure and no not responsibility but obligations, we start growing into ourselves, the very person the things around us wants us to be. and i'm guessing perhaps that's why youths today know at an earlier age what they want to do in life, what satisfies them and what kind of commitments they want to get into. they want to settle down, rather they want solidity more than excitement. they look to the long run so easily it scares us when we realize how we were so double minded and want to have fun all the time in the past. those things and people around them defined them man, and they don't know how long lasting those effects are going to be. we're more than a blank sheet of paper and there's definitely no eraser for that ink. i'm just so glad that i was in church so early and i had people who exposed me to things slowly and paced me. potential is fickle, it dies over time and these exposures are catalysts! well so, we have to race against time. i am excited about heart fest 2009. we have to beat every other thing around, every other 'force' that will alter the nature of the youths. people are less idealistic nowadays because of all these things, but we can keep an idealistic bunch. it'll be cool that this bunch, ain't desire to experiment life like the rest, they can all get it right the first time like us. let's really go out there and win these people. heart festival is going to be amazing. at this very moment i type this, many youths sec 1s sec 2s are being defined in ways you me will never know. it's like a race. against those 'forces' of society, people, education, culture, everything else. we've got to get there before they do. even if they don't become christians, we have defined an area about them. it may be a value or thinking or principle they will still live by. it may be one less messed up person, family, generation because of that one good exposure to a one good value, thought or principle. let's bring the sec 1s and 2s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 14th feb 2009, i'll see you there gdnight & bye bye! on a random note, arshavin has this russian communist thing about him. he says if he could he would ban female drivers. crappy... haiyar, just show me your soccer, not what you think. hahaha February 4, 2009 ello arshavin!!! Ivan 'Vern' Poh from URL @ 1:10 AM hey, gdnight... last sunday a group of us from zone f went to Mind's Cafe. we had so much fun. you would have heard about it. the place was totally torn apart by the girl's screaming. we left our mark behind. the people there will remember us for as long as they would remember us. hahaha. the funny thing about that trip was that, jordan and ivan were running the games for us. the 2 guys serving us were JORDAN and IVAN! and about 1 meter away, there you have me and jordan sitting side by side on the couch. it was very funny, we check poking fun at JORDAN and IVAN. it was really fun... JORDAN was laughing away. IVAN just shut down. he messed up the name man. it's supposed to be a good name. that same night, joanne called me and asked me to play bowling. i mean, i wasn't keen but i wanted to walk around. so i walked from clarke quay to marina square. there i did a couple of stuff and then met joanne, pamela, xing, zachary and leona. i convinced them to EAT instead of playing bowling. we went to look at restaurants. we saw thai express, no go, we saw imperial kitchen, not good, and a couple of other restaurants. then "POP" and suddenly i had a craving for sashimi, pam got the same craving too. so we went to sakae sushi. supper buffet starts like in 30mins time so we went to the arcade and pam and joanne went and got themselves 1 round of bowling. we went to sakae sushi and we gave the lady there something to think about. we were so funny. we ordered so much. and leona came alive. he's so so so funny, i never knew he was so funny until that day. honestly, sakae sushi is the worst jap sushi buffet restaurant you can ever go to! monday i had rehearsal and it was quite funny. today, we had a good time in camp. big shot came for a visit and we were all activate to run the programme. it was fun, you know i like this kind of things. but the highlight was the way all these warrant officers communicate and talk. I WANT TO LAUGH!!! i was just walking home with Jian Ming and we were exchanging jokes that we heard in army. actually, not really jokes, just weird warrant officer mannerisms. hahaha it is super funny. the only thing i look forward to army tomorrow is having able to talk nonsense and laugh with the WOSPECs. hahaha they are so funny... Jian Ming told me one that is really funny. His CSM, which i met today is super funny. He looks UNCLE, side parting, specs and typical hokkien soldier. He was supervising book ins and 1 guy was late. So he went and played a prank on the guy. He stopped the guy and confronted him asking, "why are you late?" and just stared at him. the guy's face turned pale... you must understand, if you're late, you die... sign extra duties or something... so this guy was freaked out. then seeing that he's freaked out, CSM Edward smiled and asked the guy, "eh! why you look so pale? don't scared la, i only asking you why you late? relax la..." then he continued saying, "i talk to you only then you so scared... like that next time don't be late la then i won't talk to you again" haha what a creative way to teach someone. anyway, arshavin is an arsenal player! can't watch him play against tottenham in the london derby this sunday.  NOW I WANT HIS JERSEY!
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