CHRISTOPHER CHEW GUO QUAN

Parents

2008-10-15T21:56:00.002+08:00

I hate me.

2008-10-02T20:16:00.002+08:00

“May you always have work for your hands to do.

May your pockets hold always a coin or two.

May the sun shine bright on your windowpane.

May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain.

May the hand of a friend always be near you.

And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.”

Found this online. Really made my day.

I would say Bond is awesome. The modern string quartet. Their pieces can really captivate, and isolate you from the world. It's like the brilliant works of Armin and Tiesto, only it empowers.

She's off with another,

And i'm still stuck with thunder.

On to daily life.

School was quite draining today. Long-winded math calculations and stuff. Chi-square, frequencies, cumulative frequencies... My gosh. I've been sticking my nose to my laptop screen so long, it might be stubby now. My eyes are all blurry... =\ Ah well, that's what you get for scrutinizing tables upon tables of data entries, and working ur ass off excel. But it wasn't too bad... School ebing school, we get the best of both worlds. Fun and pain. (head aches)

As usual, select members of the class sneaked joke shots at the totally non-existent "scandal" between peter and sibelle. It was hilarious! And sibelle carried on day.. 3? 4? of her "you sinner" craze! haha!

After school, it was quite entertaining to watch sibelle play CS with jin. Of course, we all know the winner.

After that, it was off to botak jones for dinner with andrew. I swear, he has 4 stomachs, all made of iron.

It was home bound after that, with andrew complaining about yishun being confusing.. Haha!

New Post

2008-09-30T16:54:00.001+08:00

Haiyo! Another slow day! Life needs to get moving faster!
Thank Nathalie for this post. =P

Overhaul

2008-09-13T23:01:00.003+08:00

BLOG OVERHAUL UNDERWAY!

Faith

2008-04-12T15:54:00.002+08:00

I saw you leaving church, today...
You seem to think you know the way.
But explain some of these things you say
and do on all of these other days?

Do you see this problem that you raise?

I've seen these promises you bring...
But do you hear the words you sing?
Your faith is dangling by a string!
What's left is but a fragile thing:

I'll ask again: Who is your King?

In gain you find your victory:
You've made yourself too blind to see!
What you say and do and know are three
distinguished things; Hypocrisy!
Stop living like a Pharisee,
and prove that you are truly free.

Does it phase you not to see them weep?
You could give, but you'd rather keep
what you don't need! How do you sleep?

...Know that pride is not for sheep, and what you sow is what you reap.

But you are not lost: not yet!
Selfishness isn't worth the bet --

Though the ears this falls on may be deaf,
I'll say this with my dying breath:
. . .The consequence of sin . . .

Is Death.

Die to yourself. You know the rest,
and you know the Book that says it best.

2008-02-26T20:43:00.000+08:00

It's a war of head vs. heart.
Nice phrase no?

2008-02-25T23:06:00.005+08:00

Why hello there!

I know i haven't been posting for some time.( A very long time actually. =P )

But.... UPDATES!

YESTERDAY.....

I totally went to church early, and after service, Levin and J Leong came over with the intention of producing a recording of Levin's song, but we ended up watching 'Wedding Daze' Which i must say is a really hilarious movie!!!

Then, we met daniel at..... my place.... then the 4 of us ventured to supposedly sommerset due to miscommunication, before bus-sing to suntec, where retardedness took over.

Yep. Seeing Toys 'R Us, we coulddn't resist, And entered!

Lots of random nonsense. haha

Alright. Time to sleep! Toodles!

2008-02-17T00:54:00.001+08:00

Where is that God who supposedly 'loves' me?

Tonight, i fell again.

2008-02-16T23:55:00.000+08:00

POP QUIZ!
Should Chris continue putting up his boring life stories in here?
Discuss.

Void.

2008-02-16T23:26:00.000+08:00

Alright. I have the sudden urgency to update. Don't know why. just an urgency to update.
What about, i don't know. WAIT! it just occoured to me...

I must say, i am anguished.
I'm still running my life down the wall, even after all he's told me.
I keep telling myself to upgrade, but i'm still stagnant.
But this, i've decided im ready to invest all my willpower to curb this downhill cycle, and go up.
It'll be tough i know. But i declare to everyone reading this now. i will succeed in conquring myself.

Another thing on my mind. What is a good christian?
I look around at my chirchmates, and i see a whole bunch of pretenders. Not all of them are though. Names aren't needed. You know yourselves.
Ever wondered why YCCA is so stagnant, while Lighthouse, which is younger than YCCA is so strong and powerful?
Yes, It's the people.
I daresay, i feel more at home at lighthouse, than in ycca, even though i'm only a visitor.
Nowonder so many people have moved on from YCCA to lighthouse.
And wanna know how they are now? They are closer to the Lord, than they have and could ever been in YCCA.
Why do i know? because they are my parents.

Friends, Lonliness, Love

2008-02-09T04:23:00.000+08:00

Is a blog for RANTING?

Have you wondered that,
If you were severely injured, and had to be hospitalised for a long period of time,
Who would visit you, and how frequently?
Yep... haha sometimes i wish i were knocked by a bus or something, and had to be hospitalised, just to see which nice people would visit me...

And there's also the friends who would root for you, and stand up for you, and just spend time with you, to comfort you silently, or to give advice that we hardly ever heed.
I did a lil testing, and based on their responses, i think i have really few.... and oh man i'm scared. Proves i haven't been treating my friends nicely....

Therefore, I sincerely apologise to whoever is unhappy with me, or is annoyed with me, and i urge you. If there is something about me pissing you off, please share, and i'll correct it. Don't bottle it in. it only brings about backstabbing. Let it out!
It's the job of every good friend to notify their good friend's of their errors.

Right. Back to today.
I was woken up by someone calling me about.... the.... sun.... Haha ah well it was 11am, and time for me to wake up anyway, so THANKYOU!
Washed up, poured myself some triple chocolate crunch cereal, <---[ That stuff is the greatest] and did the most "got-life" and hip thing ever! played dota.... lol! at least i din hit the com first! i washed up and ate breakfast =P
I'll skip past the yada-yada of everyday life... Because too much words SUCK, and partly cos im lazy.... =)
Bla
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WENTTOGRANDMA'SHOUSE at pasir ris, and had a smashing time with tetsu and ryo, my cousins... nothing much happened there... till we poped champaigne... apparently, the bottle was shaken, so yea... it was literally popping champaigned, with a bonus of champaign sprays... (un)fortunately, nobody got hit... aww but it was rather comical to see this lil kid koping a glass... to gay kiang, then giving it to his grand-dad after tasting the bitter stuff...
Then at 7.10pm, i left early to meet up with long cow, levin, prakky, matt, lemeul. long cow wanted to go shopping i think....
The journey there was quite ok i guess, if you don't mind being sandwiched between 2 stinky china men... one smelled of cigarettes, and the other had really bad breath, and he was constantly talking to his friend. Poor china man 3....

In the meeting, other than walking a thousand miles, pretty much nothing happened there as well... town was damn quiet...
Levin, prak and matt left early, long cow says in serangoon, lemmuel stays in tampines.
SO, i had a long train ride to yishun alone.
Bla bla bla
On the train, i saw this extremely obese yal** wearing a t-shirt, that said, "TOO HOT TO TOUCH"
Oh man.... have the fats gone to her head? pukanadan man! Thankfully i was passing her on the way to the rear carriage, and did not have to endure an eye excruciation on the way home.
It was nice and empty at first, but then, yea it got filled...
A lovey-dovey couple had to sit opposite me... damn them... made me emo... haha...
Being single is good! good! good! but yea... it does have its suckiness... then my phone had to coincidentally play those lovey dovey sweet sad sad songs..... why sia? Amplified lonliness x100
and, my third line of defence was crossed... who knows how much longer i can hold my mental fort? hahaha stupid stupid stupid...

Well it wasnt long till i reached yishun... took 806... saw 2 of my pri sch mates there...
bla bla....

[im tired! so im rushing!]
HOMESWEETHOME!
Got home, counted hong pao cash.... lets see... a total of $494! omg!
and it wasnt long till i was summoned to dota! alamak! we lost 2 games in a row! so pathetic!
then afer garry and kes went to orgh orgh, ben vic and i played lame games on bnet...
bla bla....
typed what you just read... SLEEP! GOOD NIGHT!

God's Promise

2008-02-02T03:10:00.000+08:00

One of the most comforting verses in the Bible for a Christian is Hebrews 13:5:

"Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee."

This verse tells you God is with you when everything is going great, which is the hardest time to remember Who made your success possible. You can cry out to Him in despair, which is the easiest time to remember Who can lift you out of your circumstances.

While reading this verse a few years ago, the Holy Spirit opened my eyes to the fact that our Lord is with us even when sin is conceived and then carried out. I cannot think of one area of my life that this experience did not have an effect on me. The result was not fear of condemnation, but a source of strength in times of weakness. In 2 Corinthians 12:9 we see: "And He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for My strength is made perfect in weakness." This should tell us that when we are at our worst, that's the time to call on Him, because that's when He's at His best. Philippians 4:13 says "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me."

Jesus Christ is our intercessor. "God is the one who justifies; who is He that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is ever at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us." (Romans 8:33-34) Who better to intercede than He who was tempted in all ways, but rose above it and walked in the Spirit and not in the flesh. We will all stumble, but l John 1:9 says "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive our sins,and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." God the Father will do this because Jesus Christ shed His blood and paid our sin debt on the cross.

I can't help wondering how much sin would be stopped before it ever got started, if only we had these and other Scriptures ingrained in our mind. They tell us who Jesus Christ is, His character, what He wants for us, and what He can do for us, if we'll let Him.

Jesus said "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee."

Boring-ness

2008-01-29T22:40:00.000+08:00

Sitting here, nothing to do... haha.
I MIGHT be going camping with my sis and her friends.....

Heres to you peeps! I lead a boring life! hence my blog is hardly updated... one again, i'm sorry for the lack of updates...
Heres an update, (or wad matt calls a window to my life.) about the happenings of my boring life today.

I did not sleep for the whole night, was doing some stuff... and well kept awake by taking short gaming breaks.. And i completed my work around 6 in the morning, where i played some random game till 8, then slept.
I woke up at 3.40, and was like.. woah! its soo late! so i got out of bed, air-ed the room.. it was so stuffy! and ate my "breakfast"... then.. hang on.... i cant remember wad i did after that... haha
but i know i went on bnet for a game or 2 with ben n... took a break, then hosted for levin, matt, jerome and lester.
I swear its impossible to play on bnet in the evening. All the singaporean cowards. They leave the moment they die. what kinda ideology is that? and furthermore... majority of them maphack.
they have to cheat just to win. how noobish. such pple shld burn! hahaha. not to mention spineless cos they darent admit they use a maphack.

Take for example, our Xxon in-house game. I do know one person who used a maphack. very obviously. Come on! its a friendly INTERNAL game! at least excercise some integrity! geez... great attitude there. I won't display his name, but you can ask me, and i'll gladly tell you. =D

And truthfully speaking, that crappy post was just to kill time. hahaha
This is what i was waiting for.

The Dota Clan-ners of Xxon.
Thats us! Although the clan pic is slightly incomplete. We still have a few extentions here and there.

Inactivity

2008-01-25T19:14:00.000+08:00

Hello people!
I apologise for not updating my blog despite there being so many happenings lately.
And, i will TRY to upload pics as well.

With regards to the O level results, i'd say im disappointed in myself. Yes indeed.

I somehow feel that im capable of achieving more. 18 is... nothing. really. But then again, I guess it's not my place to whine about it. Afterall, God did grant me a pass, especially since i screwed up for english, history, ss, phy and math. haha. That, i'm thankful for.

This here, is the breakdown of my scores.

This year/Last Year
English - A2 -B3
Humanities - B4 -B4
Math - C5 -D7
Sci(Phy/Chem) - B3 -C6
D&T - B4 -D7
P.o.A - D7 -F9
Chinese -F9 ---
Chinese(Oral) - U ---

Mock all you want. But its what God has given me, and i'll gladly accept your mockery.

2008-01-22T10:01:00.001+08:00

But when a long train of abuses, usurpations, presume variably the same object, events are designed to reduce them under absolute despotism.
It is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.

It means if there's something wrong, those who have the ability to take action, have the responsibility to take action.

An evening with the guys

2008-01-19T00:17:00.001+08:00

Sitting here eating my bao, while waiting for ben ngeow to finish his dota round, i thought i'd blog. Since there is nothing to do while waiting.

Jamming with J Leong, Lemuel, Levin, Matt was great! But shucks... i wanted to jam Plain Sunset's River Song.
We only did it once or twice...
But not bad la... haha did a G D Em C chord progression, and made funky lyrics, did several christian songs... swapped instruments alot.

For dinner, we ate at S11. I swear we're running out of places to eat! So boring! Yishun is boring. Heck that. Singapore is boring! It's too small, and yea. We run out of things to do.
There was not much available tables at S11 so we were pushed to the smoking corner.
The dark one act not happy only....
After dinner, we made our way to Safra and continued with some classified level9 clearance discussions, then doing some stupid stuff.

Yea that was pretty much all that happened....

Ohh! wait! i went to aunty janets place where my mum was having her home cell, and yea waited for her so i could take a lift home. (adult fare is very exp u know.)
And she offered to give sophia a lift home from northpoint! so nice la... but haha, some stupid idiot caused a humongous traffic jam in the carpark and yea, LATE!
so sophia went home first.

An evening with the guys

2008-01-19T00:17:00.000+08:00

2008-01-18T15:49:00.001+08:00

GREAT SONG!

E B
If you listen, you can hear the city call
B/F# B
In the night lights, you will find me/love
E B
Tall still towers, standing watching over you
B/F# B
In the darkness, they can stare right

A B C# E
The city night time, you can hear the city call
A B C# E
Hearing voices, running through these paper walls
A B C# E
Hear the river, passing outside through your homes
A B A B
You can feel it, you can feel it

E B
In this moment, with the streetlights in your eyes
B/F# B
Dreaming secrets, that we carry
E B
In the grounds, court silence makes it whole/home
F# B
As the people, they will stay asleep

A B C# E
The city night time, you can hear the city call
A B C# E
Hearing voices, coming through these paper walls
A B C# E
Hear the river, passing outside through your homes
A B A B
You can feel it, you can feel it

A B C# E
Hear the night time, you can hear the city call
A B C# E
hearing voices, coming through these paper walls
A B C# E
hear the river, as it runs right through your homes
A B A B
you can feel it, you can feel it

(TRANSITION) CHRIS[E,B,E,A,E]

E B
If you listen, you can hear the city call
B/F# B
In the night lights, you will find me/love
E B
Tall still towers, standing watching over you
B/F# B
In the darkness, they can stare right

A B C# E
Hear the night time, you can hear the city call
A B C# E
hearing voices, coming through these paper walls
A B C# E
hear the river, as it runs right through your homes
A B A B
you can feel it, you can feel it

A B C# E
Hear the night time, you can hear the city call
A B C# E
hearing voices, coming through these paper walls
A B C# E
hear the river, as it runs past city hall
A B A B
you can feel it, you can feel it.

Revival.

2008-01-18T15:45:00.000+08:00

Hello all! Yes, I've decided to revive my blog.
Thanks to serena. =P

Alright. No time for a long debut post! I'm off to jamming!