a very very very long day....

today was a long day...

8.45am: soccer at NUS...

people coming in at 9am...

presenting to mr kwa his birthday present

goal celebration...

the new people that came to join us the first time...

it was a fun time. in total, we had 21 people coming to play soccer today! woah, amazing... some of the new people that joined us today was alvin, shawn, luke, kevin, daniel, jeremy, anton, justin and jurgen. we played 11 a side for a while but switch to 7 a side after we realised that it's just too crowded to fit so many players on our small makeshift field with our self-improvised goal posts made from leftover pipes from the last church camp games. haha! Overall, it was a good time and we will be playing every week. (hopefully!) played till around 11.30am as some of us had to go for the narnia event @ east coast park...

1.00pm: Narnia Sandcastle Event @ East Coast Park

lunch @ lagoon food centre before the event

the land of narnia...


presenting to you... mr jerry ong...

the group that i did some castle building with...

special mentions to ms smiley crocodile and her "prince"?

the volunteers of red zone which i'm part of...

finally, a picture of a sandcastle...

a picture collage thanks to picassa...

well, here we are again... another narnia event but with less familiar faces from the last event held at orchard. no ms chloe around or crews from the previous narnia show. new faces and new people. with willing hearts to serve but saw theresa and alisa again and also my favourite mr jerry ong! (you rock jerry! good hosting!) learned so much about sandcastle building today. isn't all about putting sands into containers and hitting them out... it's more than that... it about carefully planning the route of your building and more importantly, what you want in your castle. saw so many families today and once again, come back to the basics of this blog. living in a family is not just about problems and more problems, but it's also about having fun together. it's about doing things together and not feeling childish about it. Papas building castles, mamas cheering and helping to touch up on some of the areas, kids as usual are the destroyers (just kidding!) but that's where kids have fun! knocking down castle as though they are giants, walking giants that walk through the land and stamping down everything in their sight! hahaha... that is just kids! that's how they should be. no worries in them, no unhappiness bothering them, just pure fun and joy...

and now... the picture of the day...


another reminder that it's national day! yay! time to celebrate the humble beginnings of our nation and also count the blessings of God on Singapore as we see the growth we had since our humble beginnings... saw this helicopter just flew pass us and above us while we are building our sandcastles! it's just such an awesome sight as the whole beach just looked up and admire the majesty of our nation's flag... one day, it will be us looking up and seeing the glorious splendor of our great God! the event ended around 6 plus and by the time everything is packed up, it was around 8 plus... went for dinner with ben soh and his princess @ lagoon (where else? since it's just right in front of us...) hokkien mee, fried oyster omelette and satay was the dinner menu and not mentioning the usual sugar cane juice that we always have...

shag out...
struggling to keep my eyes open while writing this blog... it was long... long... long... day...

Why? Why senses of a child?

Many people have asked me that question about my blog. Why did i use that as my blog name? Well, the only answer that i come up with is that because that the basic senses that we should have. The senses of a child are joy, happiness, abundance-ness, no worries and have fun! Along the way of growing up, many of us pick up the rest of the senses that we have, like pain, distrust, unwantedness, unwillingness, violence, foul language, insecurity and rejection. These are things which God would not want in our lives. He put us in this world and all He gave us was the 5 senses we were born with but we often unwillingly or unknowingly pick up the rest of our senses which mould our being. All the insecurity that we grow up with, the pain that we experience from relationships, the rejections that we get from our friends, the violence that some of us experience in our family, foul languages that we used to cover our iniquities, are just things that slowly shape our being to be the person that we turn out to be when we grow up. So that's why, sensesofachild is to once again come back to the initial senses that we are born with and being reconcile with those senses.