Thursday, August 31, 2006
Okay, so I watched my first episode of Singapore Idol. Given that I’ve been away, I think it’s pretty excusable that I’ve only started this late.
Any here’s a run down of the contestants and my first impressions of them.
Hady, Hmm most likely to win I suppose even his vocal talent it’s almost expected that he’d make it, at least to the top three. Then again vocal talent isn’t everything. Plus I think (know) there are better singers out there. Out of all the contestants I’ve seen (five so far) he seems the dullest, lacking in X factor charm.
Jasmine, Ah the COS person, you know I’m torn between loyal out of association and supporting the strongest vocalist. I think she typically a sweetie, and with her sort of voice it would seem that she should stick to singing soft soppy ballads. I heard her rendition of Aretha Franklin’s "Think"and I thought it abit of a travesty to have her perform it. Aretha’s songs have always featured a decent load of power in them. Jasmine just doesn’t seem to have that. Or at the very least the TV doesn’t portray her as having that power. On the other hand I sure am proud that a COS member can get that far in the competition. Then again I do wonder how, Charles or Chris would have faired if they had joined.
Jonathan Leong, I suppose he has the looks to sell the albums, but by George his vibrato is all over the place. Vibrato can either be invisibly there enhancing the song or in your face. In this instance Vibrato stuck an umbrella up my noses, opened it and starting twirling that umbrella around. Rather disturbing. None the less I suppose he’ll be in the top three.
Joakim, pretty boy. Looks abit like my old camp mate Eugene… hmm… Eugene was a nice person he always gave my extra soup. I like soup.
Paul Twohill. The first thought that ran through my head when I first saw him on the screen was; why on earth does he have his face covering his eyes? Then of course I saw his eyes and it was like ohhhhhh. I’m sorry if this sounds nasty but the collective features of that boy is just… unnatural.
You could almost feature him in a 50’s black and white horror movie. Think about it, a secretary heads home late from work after been grilled by the boss, she’s cornered in an alley by a suspicious looking figure dressed in a white shirt and pants. That figure approaches her with his head bent low brandishing some odd shaped object, mumbling to himself. She fumbles through her handbag looking for something to defend herself with. The figure lunges towards her. Just then in the flickering street light we see, another person enter this alley he lifts his countenance it’s Twohill. Twohill flicks his hair to reveal his eyes to given both of them a friendly grin followed shortly by a concerned look. Both secretary and Jehoveh’s witness scream for unholy terror and dash out of the alley, running pass Twohill knocking into him and twirling him one-eighty. The camera pans out with Twohill smiling and then start walking in the direction which the mis- matched couples fled. Scary isn’t it?
Regarding my work life, after being tossed about for the last two weeks, I’ve finally come to settle in my old camp. Of course as with any ORD personnel, I really really don’t want to have to show up at work. I consider my previous work done accomplishment and effort enough. Indeed more that a good number of individuals that I’ve met in the organization. Now in the winter of my service duration, I just want to settle into my old life and pursue a number of interests that I have. Not to mention I really don’t want to do ground work. It’s not so much that I don’t want to do it, as much as it is doing my work in THAT place is ridiculously frustrating.
So to achieve the aforementioned lifestyle, I have for the first two initial weeks succumbed to the temptation of manipulation. Which is not surprising of me, considering that I am by nature and habit a manipulative person. Something I understand the Lord doesn’t approve of. Of course this manipulative nature can also be used for good, namely in planning. But I digress. So for the last two weeks I’ve been putting in a fair amount of effort into wiggling out of company functions, getting half day offs and finding every conceivable medical appointments to get out of working. As with my manipulation of situations it has been met with some success, for instance I have yet to do a full day’s work since my return. But the Lord doesn’t like me to manipulate situations in my life like that, mostly because it shows fear and lack of trust in him. After all it is so much easier for me to trust in my planning which I CAN see, rather than in his planning which I can’t see. Though my actions fails by Christian logic, because the Lord can see EVERYTHING that goes on, where as I don’t, that in addition to him having my best interests at heart proves to be a more convincing case. That and his given track record in having planned the inner workings of ALL creation does seem to point him out as a better candidate in planning my life.
Case and point yesterday I went to the poly clinic to get a referral to get my wisdom teeth extracted. Which as it stood was sort of the ace up my sleeve to skip at least two weeks of work. But as it transpired the dentist informed me that I DIDN’T have wisdom teeth and that I never had any wisdom teeth. Which is abit surprising to me considering before my placement away from Singapore, I had one wisdom tooth extracted AND the dentist asked me if I wanted to remove the other three. Either it’s a miraculous sign that the Lord doesn’t want me to be manipulating my circumstance or I must have been seriously drugged for that portion of my service. Either way the dentist was puzzled too, so she wrote me a referral letter to A.H to help sort this out. Whilst I intended to go the hospital to settle my curiosity, I knew that it was very unlikely that I would get my wisdom teeth “discovered”, realizing that my ability to manipulate has reached it’s limit. I committed the whole situation back to the Lord.
Lo and behold the next day, I was informed that I could be a clerk in the office, in fact as one of the officers said “we badly need clerks in the office”. What sort of clerk? Why LAD of course! My area of expertise, I realized that when you stop struggling and let the Lord handle your situations life turns out a lot easier. Also I realized that much as I like ground work I was abit jittery with handling the bigger vehicles, which this camp tends to deal with around this time of year. That was also most likely the reason I went into manipulative mode the apprehension of spending more energy learning about new vehicles 10 working days before I clear leave. This demonstrates to me that the Lord deals with the ISSUES as well as the SITUATION.
I suppose this issue of manipulation seems to be a reoccurring theme through out my term of service. Hmm lemme think about first before I decide what my stand on this matter is.
Until then.
That is all
Jon™
Today’s Jonathan’s Gem. “ Hmm I want you to imagine that you AND your wife were married”…
Any here’s a run down of the contestants and my first impressions of them.
Hady, Hmm most likely to win I suppose even his vocal talent it’s almost expected that he’d make it, at least to the top three. Then again vocal talent isn’t everything. Plus I think (know) there are better singers out there. Out of all the contestants I’ve seen (five so far) he seems the dullest, lacking in X factor charm.
Jasmine, Ah the COS person, you know I’m torn between loyal out of association and supporting the strongest vocalist. I think she typically a sweetie, and with her sort of voice it would seem that she should stick to singing soft soppy ballads. I heard her rendition of Aretha Franklin’s "Think"and I thought it abit of a travesty to have her perform it. Aretha’s songs have always featured a decent load of power in them. Jasmine just doesn’t seem to have that. Or at the very least the TV doesn’t portray her as having that power. On the other hand I sure am proud that a COS member can get that far in the competition. Then again I do wonder how, Charles or Chris would have faired if they had joined.
Jonathan Leong, I suppose he has the looks to sell the albums, but by George his vibrato is all over the place. Vibrato can either be invisibly there enhancing the song or in your face. In this instance Vibrato stuck an umbrella up my noses, opened it and starting twirling that umbrella around. Rather disturbing. None the less I suppose he’ll be in the top three.
Joakim, pretty boy. Looks abit like my old camp mate Eugene… hmm… Eugene was a nice person he always gave my extra soup. I like soup.
Paul Twohill. The first thought that ran through my head when I first saw him on the screen was; why on earth does he have his face covering his eyes? Then of course I saw his eyes and it was like ohhhhhh. I’m sorry if this sounds nasty but the collective features of that boy is just… unnatural.
You could almost feature him in a 50’s black and white horror movie. Think about it, a secretary heads home late from work after been grilled by the boss, she’s cornered in an alley by a suspicious looking figure dressed in a white shirt and pants. That figure approaches her with his head bent low brandishing some odd shaped object, mumbling to himself. She fumbles through her handbag looking for something to defend herself with. The figure lunges towards her. Just then in the flickering street light we see, another person enter this alley he lifts his countenance it’s Twohill. Twohill flicks his hair to reveal his eyes to given both of them a friendly grin followed shortly by a concerned look. Both secretary and Jehoveh’s witness scream for unholy terror and dash out of the alley, running pass Twohill knocking into him and twirling him one-eighty. The camera pans out with Twohill smiling and then start walking in the direction which the mis- matched couples fled. Scary isn’t it?
Regarding my work life, after being tossed about for the last two weeks, I’ve finally come to settle in my old camp. Of course as with any ORD personnel, I really really don’t want to have to show up at work. I consider my previous work done accomplishment and effort enough. Indeed more that a good number of individuals that I’ve met in the organization. Now in the winter of my service duration, I just want to settle into my old life and pursue a number of interests that I have. Not to mention I really don’t want to do ground work. It’s not so much that I don’t want to do it, as much as it is doing my work in THAT place is ridiculously frustrating.
So to achieve the aforementioned lifestyle, I have for the first two initial weeks succumbed to the temptation of manipulation. Which is not surprising of me, considering that I am by nature and habit a manipulative person. Something I understand the Lord doesn’t approve of. Of course this manipulative nature can also be used for good, namely in planning. But I digress. So for the last two weeks I’ve been putting in a fair amount of effort into wiggling out of company functions, getting half day offs and finding every conceivable medical appointments to get out of working. As with my manipulation of situations it has been met with some success, for instance I have yet to do a full day’s work since my return. But the Lord doesn’t like me to manipulate situations in my life like that, mostly because it shows fear and lack of trust in him. After all it is so much easier for me to trust in my planning which I CAN see, rather than in his planning which I can’t see. Though my actions fails by Christian logic, because the Lord can see EVERYTHING that goes on, where as I don’t, that in addition to him having my best interests at heart proves to be a more convincing case. That and his given track record in having planned the inner workings of ALL creation does seem to point him out as a better candidate in planning my life.
Case and point yesterday I went to the poly clinic to get a referral to get my wisdom teeth extracted. Which as it stood was sort of the ace up my sleeve to skip at least two weeks of work. But as it transpired the dentist informed me that I DIDN’T have wisdom teeth and that I never had any wisdom teeth. Which is abit surprising to me considering before my placement away from Singapore, I had one wisdom tooth extracted AND the dentist asked me if I wanted to remove the other three. Either it’s a miraculous sign that the Lord doesn’t want me to be manipulating my circumstance or I must have been seriously drugged for that portion of my service. Either way the dentist was puzzled too, so she wrote me a referral letter to A.H to help sort this out. Whilst I intended to go the hospital to settle my curiosity, I knew that it was very unlikely that I would get my wisdom teeth “discovered”, realizing that my ability to manipulate has reached it’s limit. I committed the whole situation back to the Lord.
Lo and behold the next day, I was informed that I could be a clerk in the office, in fact as one of the officers said “we badly need clerks in the office”. What sort of clerk? Why LAD of course! My area of expertise, I realized that when you stop struggling and let the Lord handle your situations life turns out a lot easier. Also I realized that much as I like ground work I was abit jittery with handling the bigger vehicles, which this camp tends to deal with around this time of year. That was also most likely the reason I went into manipulative mode the apprehension of spending more energy learning about new vehicles 10 working days before I clear leave. This demonstrates to me that the Lord deals with the ISSUES as well as the SITUATION.
I suppose this issue of manipulation seems to be a reoccurring theme through out my term of service. Hmm lemme think about first before I decide what my stand on this matter is.
Until then.
That is all
Jon™
Today’s Jonathan’s Gem. “ Hmm I want you to imagine that you AND your wife were married”…
