I Hear Wedding Bells *Ding Dong*

Sorry to disappoint you... not me getting married lah...

I’m very excited!!! Tomorrow, one of my friends is getting married and I’m going to be… no lah... not the bride’s maid lah you… I am going to be the camera woman!!! Wah, so exciting!!! The reason for my excitement is that I have some camera angles in my mind that I wanna try. Also, I have a kind of interesting way of editing the video. Heee heee…

The camera angles I need to think first and plan how and when I gonna get them. I think this is one good and positive thing that I got out of my time of being the time code recorder on shoots. You see the way Ah Pek frames his shot… and you learn lor. I mean his shots hor, very nice you know!!! It’s like, there’s a certain place, and I go in my mind, wah, so boring, how to shoot? Then I see the way Ah Pek frames it up hor… wah, I salivating can!!!! Very nice!!! I guess it really depends on whether one has the eye to see or not. But this kind of thing can also learn lah.

Ok, later when I edit finish already hor, I see whether I’m able to put the clip on my blog lor. But I need to some help, cos donch know how to put stuff on blog. A little help please? Somebody? Anybody? Help lah… Help help help!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Truth is Out About K-Dramas

I had the good fortune of watching the following:

1. My Tutor Friend

2. The Cool Guy

I quite like both shows, except for one point. The Korean girls’ mannerisms are all the same. Wah piang eh… macham some mannerism clone like that can. Laiteez one character. One. Wah… why huh? Is it society or what? Rather creepy you know.

One of my friends has a Korean boyfriend. The farnie thing is that he’s staying in New Zealand. Anyhoos, he came to Singapore to visit his girlfriend (who is also my friend. Is it that confusing??? No right????) then we met up lah, cos my friend wanted us to meet her Korean boyfriend mah.

Whilst blabbering like all girls do, we talked, of course, naturally, about Korean dramas, amongst other things. And I asked the Korean boyfriend the reason for the tragic endings in many Korean dramas. And, at long last, I received… ENLIGHTMENT!!

The reason: Korean dramas’ primary audience is the Korean housewives. And the housewives there LOVE twists and turnings and what not in their drama serials. Thus, the modern Korean drama as we know it is born.

Wah.. like that also can eh...

Of Life and Other Demons

This morning, I received tragic news: one of my best friends’ aunty passed away this morning. I got the message at about 7 plus in the morning, and boy, did I get a shock of my life! I’ve spoken to that aunt of hers before and I was really shocked.

I went for the wake as well. And when I saw my friend’s mum, I knew what a loss it must be for her, since it was her sister. I sat with my friend and we talked. My friend told me about how she felt and whenever she mentioned her aunt, she just broke down in tears. I cried as well, because I could feel the pain that my friend felt. I cried with her.

When my friend was telling me about how she felt and not, the thing that kept popping up in the conversation was that she didn’t know whether her aunt was saved or not. I could really hear the regret in her voice. And I reassured her that our God is good and faithful. He might have appeared to her before she passed away.

It’s from this experience that I understood what’s important in life. It’s not:

things you did right. things you did wrong. things you said right. things you said wrong. things you thought right. things you thought wrong. money. status. fame. career. bungalow. HDB flat. husband. wife. boyfriend. girlfriend. mother. father. siblings. daughter. son. world peace. disasters. experience. friends. church. camera. tripod. cheap clothes. branded clothes. endorsements. advertisements. mercedes. bmw. audi. fiat. toyota. samsung. nokia. sony erickson. motorola. wallet. clock. deals. phd. masters. honours. degree. diploma. rolex. swatch. mango. zara. first class treatment. treated like crap. famous people. ordinary people. smurfs. strawberry shortcake. 3 blind mice. baa baa black sheep. the little mermaid. snow white and the seven dwarfs. communism. liberty. authoritarian. george bush. ariel sharon. saddam husein. prince charles. princess diana. sony. equality. french revolution. mcdonalds. kfc. laksa. mee goreng. mee rubus. nasi lemak. char kuay teow. hokkien mee. carrot cake. chicken rice. curry. roti prata. high cholesterol. low cholesterol. high blood pressure. low blood pressure. headache. migraine. pain in the neck. pain in the backside. gastric flu. gastric pain. menstrual cramps. period. fat. thin. tall. short. balding. hairy. free. in chains. guilty. innocent. forgiveness. sorrow. happiness. joy. laughter. crying. tears.

What’s truly important is:

Do you have Jesus?

That Wretched Woman!!!

wah… I wanna complain can… in my office, this senior of mine (let’s call her LSC) hor, wah piang eh, damn bua tahan can… she laiteez one irritating can. she hor damn 过 份 can. You know what she calls me? Her slave leh. Wah piang eh. Hello, we living in what era huh? Still got slave in this day and age meh? Call me her slave once not enough… call me that a number of times ok. Then hor, call me that in front of client some more ok. Not once, not twice but more!!! Wah… she really hor… asking for it man. Then my camera man, Ah Pek hor, hear already, not happy, then suan her back. (thanks hor, for helping me to get back at her). Hmmm, let’s see, what did he say to her? He said a lot of things lah. But the not so vulgar one is this:

Ah Pek: wah did you see LSC do yoga or not huh? Wah, that day when I was with her, after she turn turn turn hor, I couldn’t tell where her head was. Because her head is as big as her backside.

Wah... that Ah Pek hor, also very bad lah.

Super irritating leh. Then one day, I bua tahan already. She called me her slave again hor, then I told her off:

Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

Wah, from onwards hor, she didn’t call me that already lah. But I tell you ah, if she ever call me that again huh, I’ll give it to her jia lak jia lak ok…

Don’t ever make the mistake of thinking that my keeping quiet is a sign of weakness or whatever. I just giving her chance. Make me angry ah… you get it from me man. Idiot.

Supreme Court Shoot

I must say, it’s quite an experience filming the Supreme Court of Singapore. Other than that, I can’t say anything else, as I’ve signed my life away to the highest court of Singapore.

But I can definitely talk about my experiences with my lovely crew.

On Monday, I wore all black since we’ll be indoors the whole day, so I won’t combust spontaneously. However, near the end of the day, someone in the crew said that I looked like a witch. The following is a re-enactment of the scene:

Ah Pek: 有人因该给这个巫婆一个帚把然后她可以飞。

(Translation: somebody should give this witch a broom, so that she can fly.)

Someone else (I think it was Jingle): 没有帚把，给她一个 C-Stand就好了。

(Translation: there’s no broom, just give her a C-Stand will do.)

Wah piang eh, I was like… idiot!!!!

Then on Tuesday, I wore a green top with black pants in the hopes that I could avoid criticism. But no… I kenna also. The reason for this is that the cleaners, yes cleaners working at the Supreme Court also wear a green top.

Jingle: Auntie, 你在这里做什么。 你应该在那里才对嘛。

(Translation: Auntie, what are you doing here? You should be there.)

Then the rest of the crew took up the call as well. My face was like this -_-“’ by then.

On Wednesday, I wore a purple polo tee with black pants. No one in the cleaning department wears anything remotely like my colour combination. Like that, I also kenna.

Jingle: eh, 管工，管工.

(Translation: Supervisor, supervisor.)

Wah piang eh, damn bua tahan can.

Insulted by them left, right, centre. *shakes head* The pain I have to go through. Sigh. But on the other hand, being with the crew is also rather fun. This is only when I am NOT the butt of the jokes lah.

Another rather irritating thing that keeps happening is that the crew keeps pairing me up with another member of the crew, Sunny. The thing is that I don’t like him. Very sickening.

This is not the end. I'm going on a shoot with them this Saturday as well as a continuation of the Supreme Court shoot on Monday.

More stories to come I reckon.

Justly and Righteously

I’m on a shoot today for Singapore’s Supreme Court. And for the first time in my entire life, I know what the Bible meant when it said that God forgave and saved us justly and righteously. These are judicial terms and in the past, I’m like, orh, ok lor, just and righteously lor. Whatever. But today, when I stepped into the various courts and chambers whereby the various Registrars were hearing the cases, I kind of had a small inkling of what the words ‘just’ and ‘righteous’ mean. I won’t try to explain it here, cos I believe that the meaning of the verse sank into my heart, and not into my head.

Thank You Jesus and thank You my Father God.

Of Stairway to Heaven and other Demons

The fake love of Mira Jingshu’s stepmother as well as Yuri reminds me of the following verses in the Bible:

Pro 27:6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

Last time I didn’t really understand what this verse meant. But after watching STH, wah, power man, revelation just flooded into me man.

I do have a few personal comments about STH. Donch worry, no more practical criticism.

1. Wah piang eh, very the draggy leh. Why huh? I reckon that they could have completed the story in 10 episodes or so, why must drag here drag there until macham so chiam ah. Buah tahan can.

2. The appearance of the sound mic is seriously getting on my nerves. I’ve since lost count the number of times I’ve seen the sound mic appearing. Very irritating and very unnatural leh. I mean you’re trying to make the story believable and all, then scar-ly, I see a sound mic, all the illusion is GONE!!!! Any one knows the Korean TV station can let them know or not huh. Most of the time, I see the sound mic in wide shots.

3. The continuity (also known as conti) is pretty bad also. For example, there’s one very blatant one, cannot forgive hor. It’s the last scene whereby Chengjun was playing the piano by the beach.

- It was an extreme wide shot (EWS) with his back view of him playing the piano. The shot then slowly zooms in to a wide shot (WS)

- Then cut to a close up (CU) of his fingers playing the piano. Then the shot tilts up to show a CU of Chengjun’s face.

- Then cut to a long shot (LS) front view of him playing the piano.

- Then cut to a mid-close up (MCU) front view of Chengjun’s face.

- Then cut to CU of his fingers playing the piano.

- Then cut to CU of Chenhjun’s face.

- Then cut to a WS back view of Chengjun playing the piano. And in this shot, one sees that the tide has come up to pass the piano.

- Then cut to CU fingers again.

- Then cut to CU Chengjun’s face.

- Then cut to hands closing the piano cover.

- Then cut to Chengjun standing up, looser MCU.

- Then cut to a WS back view of Chengjun standing next to the piano, with the tide not even touching the piano.

Did you notice it??? It’s the tide!!!!!!!!! The WS of Chengjun and piano shows that the tide is not up. Then when it comes to another WS of Chengjun, the tide is up!!! Cannot like that one leh. I mean even if you wanna cheat, can, can try and cheat. But cheat during the CUs lah. I know that time and tide waits for no man. But seriously consistency lor. If you want low tide, the low tide all the way. If want high tide, then high tide all the way lor. When it comes to the CUs, can cheat lah, because not showing sand and all mah. Just showing CUs of hands and face lor. Wah piang, seriously, this is pretty bad ok…

Aiya, I know lah, all these small mistakes, I just being a perfectionist and a pain in the backside. But still very irritating to see these kind of things leh.

Practical Criticism of Stairway to Heaven

Several themes run throughout the Korean drama ‘Stairway to Heaven’ (STH). The following is a practical criticism of the drama.

The theme of love and hate runs very clearly throughout STH. There is the relationship between the protagonists, Jingshu and Chengjun. This is followed by the coupling of Tae Hwa and Jingshu as well as Yuri and Chengjun.

In the first pair of coupling, they present the true star-crossed lovers where nothing goes well with their relationship. When they’ve overcome one disaster, another one comes knocking on their door. However, the saying that love can overcome anything and everything does not seem to apply to their case. Their love for one another is not sufficient to overcome the last disaster which knocked on their door: Jingshu’s cancer.

The second pairing is between Tae Hwa and Jingshu. They came together when Jingshu had an accident and she lost her memory. Even though one could say that Tae Hwa was indeed selfish in keeping Jingshu to himself for five years, however, he aptly redeems himself through several events: by telling the truth about Jingshu’s accident, by giving up of Jingshu so that she can marry Chengjun as well as the sacrifice of his own life so that he may give his eyes to the blind Jingshu.

The last pairing is Chengjun with Yuri. The two came together as a result of the apparent death of Jingshu. Yuri seems to love Chengjun for who he is as she seems to get insanely jealous whenever Jingshu comes onto the scene.

Between Chengjun and Jingshu, the hurts that occur between them seem to exist only on the emotional level and mental. However, between Tae Hwa and Jingshu, the hurt, for Taw Hwa at least, exists for him not only on the emotional as well as mental level, but also for the physical level. This is clearly seen in his unselfish act of killing himself so that his eyes can be given to Jingshu. This is to fulfill her wish of seeing Chengjun once again when she has gone blind.

No doubt Chengjun did think of giving one of his eyes to the blind Jingshu, in this case, the saying ‘action speaks louder than words’ seem to apply. Of course, one should not belittle all of Chengjun’s efforts in trying to ascertain the truth of Jingshu’s identity when she had amnesia. However, all of Chengjun’s efforts do not really seem to cut it when the crux of the moment takes place. Indeed, one could say that Chengjun was rather helpless when Jingshu wanted to see him when she was blind.

Other than the love for a person, there is another aspect of love: the love of the material. This theme is clearly personified in the figure of Mira. Her love for wealth led her to marry Professor Han, which in turn, led to her instigating and taking the side of her own daughter, Yuri, to marry Chengjun.

Another theme that runs very strongly in STH is the idea of blindness versus sight. When Jingshu was blind, it was a physical infirmity for her. However, this infirmity takes on an intangible aspect in the persons of Chengjun, his mother as well as Professor Han, Jingshu’s father. It was rather blatant that Mira as well as her daughter, Yuri had something bad up their sleeves. However, none of them the truly blind people saw through them. It is a classic case of having eyes, and yet, they do not see. Sometimes, even the blind see more than them.

End of the pract crit. Aiya, I anyhow write one lah. I don’t think it’s very well done, but whatever. It’s been about seven years since I last wrote a pract crit. Yup, and that was for my ‘A’ level exams.

Aiya, stil got a lot of themes to explore lah:

- in death, there’s life

- heaven, earth and hell

- angel vs. the devil

- now vs. eternity

- love vs. hate

- true love vs. fake love

- sacrifice

- light vs. darkness

- memory loss vs. remembering

- lies vs. truth

- redemption and forgiveness

- envy and jealousy

- the haves vs. the have-nots

- better to love and lost than not to love at all

Generally speaking, I don’t like Literature for the simple reason that we tend to dig and dig and dig and dig and try to look for some meaning. And seriously, in the case of STH, I SERIOUSLY doubt the script writer(s) meant to elucidate all the abovementioned themes. I reckon they are more concerned with the ratings and the amount of tears flowing and what not. This is one of the reasons for me not studying Literature in the University level.

Theory number 114 is about the true origins of the people of Korea.

Long long time ago, in the country of China, there were people (obviously). In the Chinese culture, pride and ‘face’ is very important in life as well as in death. In life, if one is rich and in a position of power, one is respected. In death, the number of people who cry and wail at one’s funeral determines the level of respect one had in life. Of course, in order not to lose ‘face’ at such a august as well important ceremony as one’s funeral, a special clan called the ‘Mourners’ were formed. Now, the ‘Mourners’ is a much respected clan in the land of China. The reason for this is that the crucial role that they play in society. To be part of this elite clan is not an easy task. There are five criteria that the clan elders look for:

1. The rare ability to cry at a moment’s notice.

2. Whilst crying, one must take absolute care in not messing up the make-up on one’s face.

3. When the crying is over, one’s eyes must not look swollen.

4. One must still look good whilst the tears are rolling down one’s cheeks

5. One should be able to control the route that the tears roll down.

Once these five criteria are met, the new mourners are allowed into this elite society.

However, one day, tragedy struck. One of the members of the mourners angered the great emperor of China. And he decreed that all the mourners be rounded up. Once done, they are to be executed at the break of dawn the following day.

In order to avoid the death penalty, these fervent lovers of life decided to flee the country. In the dead of night, almost all of the mourners escaped onto sampans and rowed their way out of China. Once they were out, a breath of relief escaped their mouths.

However, where are they to go, they thought? They’ve left everything behind, their prestige, their status, everything. On and on they rowed as these nagging thoughts continued to assault their minds just as the waves assaulted their sampans. Day after day, they rowed.

Till one day, they rowed till they can’t find an ounce of strength in their muscles. On the verge of breaking down and wailing at the heavens and the earth, one of them sighted land! Once the news broke through the ranks of people, the mourners were beside themselves with ecstasy.

They landed and they scrambled out of the water-filled sampans and quickly got down on their knees and kissed the sand. So grateful were they that the elite clan of mourners decided to make this land their home.

Hence, this land where the elite groups of mourners live, is known in today’s tongue, as Korea.

Please take this with a bowl of salt. Just a tongue in chic commentary on the amount of tears that the Koreans cry.

Happy Mooncake Festival!!!!

Tonight my church has a Hokkien evangelistic meeting and I’m blessed to be serving for the second service which started at 7pm.

The service consisted of some song items, followed by a skit, more song items, then Pastor Mark came up to preach. I’m really happy to know that the two services caused 55 people to receive Jesus. Praise Jesus, all glory to Him.

Amongst the programs for the Hokkien service, there was a segment whereby there was this lady by the name of Esther gave a testimony. She spoke in Hokkien and since my Hokkien is even worse than my Mandarin, I agar agar understand what she was testified and I was really touched by the faithfulness of the Jesus. Even when we think of ending our lives by committing suicide, He’s there for us. He doesn’t leave us even though we think of killing ourselves. Sigh, really, such faithfulness of the God Who found me. Truly, amazing grace, how sweet the sound. Only by grace are we saved, and only by grace can we continue living our lives to the eternal glory of our Jesus.

My Camera Crew

I’m a producer in the media line. And I have a mad camera crew. Most of them are in their late thirties or in their forties. Now, my camera crew has a serious tendency to do crazy things.

For example, during our most recent shoot for the National Parks Board, we were at a particular playground at Punggol that area. After shooting some shots, we were about to leave the place. Then, my cameraman, whose nickname is Ah Pek, saw a slide. Ah Pek wanted to go down the slide with the camera so that he could get a particular view. Now, the thing is this. The slide is a covered slide and frankly, I didn’t think at that time that the Ah Pek could slide down without help. After all the slide is meant for KIDS!!!!!. I wasn’t the only one who thought so. And then, one of the crew, I don’t know who it was, actually suggested that I, me, the traveling turtle, go down the slide with the camera and they’ll pull my legs from the bottom so that I could slide down… I was like, no way José!!!!!!!!

My boss used to work at a major cable company located locally. She was telling me about her experience with the camera crew.

There was one time whereby my boss had to go to Thailand’s Chiva-Som for a shoot for her company. Apparently. Chiva-Som is this world famous luxury health resort. This place is sooooo not cheap, as 1 night at Chiva Som will set you back by about US$1000. Yuppers, it’s a playground for the rich and the famous.

Anyhoos, the camera crew and my boss were at the world’s most expensive detox place. The food that they had there was pretty bad. There was no meat at all, only vegetables. And I heard that the portion was small. So, when the crew saw what they had to eat, they were pretty miserable at every meal.

One of the shots that Ah Pek had to capture was this huge statue of Buddha. When the day had come to shoot Buddha (pun not intended), Ah Pek told my boss to go and do some spa thing; go, relax and have a good time. My boss had worked with them for a rather long time, hence she knew that she could trust them.

A few hours passed. My boss had come out from her relaxing spa experience. Some of the Chiva-Som’s distressed staff came and told my boss to quickly come with them. All they could say to her was: “Madam, quick, come… Buddha’s head.” They went to where the crew where and my boss nearly got a heart attack.

Ah Pek and some of his assistants were on top of Buddha’s head.

Seeing that, my boss just started screaming that them, telling them to quickly get their backsides down.

The crew then started to scurry down, but halfway through, they stopped. Then my boss asked them: “why did they stop?” Then Ah Pek said that having eaten only vegetables during mealtimes, they suddenly feel very weak and without strength.

By the time the crew got down, my boss was pretty miffed with them, as Buddha is a religious figure in Thailand. When questioned, the crew said that they did pray before they climbed onto Buddha…

All my boss could do was shake her head and roll her eyes.

The K-Drama Saga Continues

Last night I managed to watch till episode 8 of Stairway to Heaven. The reason for this is because I watched part of episode 4-6 on TV already. Anyhoos, so far whilst I’m watching the drama, I’m like… wah piang eh… very the drama can… and I learnt a couple of things from the drama:

Things that the traveling turtle learnt from watching part of Stairway to Heaven:

1. The course of true love never did run smooth.

· Me not so smart to come up with this phrase. It’s from Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. Hated that book. Bleah.

· Anyhoo, the drama is getting a tat on my nerves even though there’s a cute guy. I mean, hallo!!! You trying for a Romeo and Juliet here? When Jingshu recovered her memory, she went to look for Chengjun. When she found him, she just looked at him without opening her golden mouth. I mean, hallo!!!!! You’ll think that the Jingshu who recovered her memory lost her brains at the same time. I mean, be real lor!!! When Jingshu saw Chengjun, she should have told him that it’s her right??? You cannot expect Chengjun to know that Jingshu recovered her memory what… how do you expect him to know??? Through Jingshu’s eye power??? Or through osmosis and diffusion???? Siao ah…

2. One may smile and smile and be a villain.

· This is also another one from Shakespeare. It’s from Hamlet. Love that book!

· This is for Jingshu’s stepmother, Mira. Power you know… makes one think twice whether one should marry an actor/actress. *shudder*

3. Sound mic…

· I think it was episode 7 (can’t remember), there was a scene whereby both Tae Hwa and Jingshu were on top of the scaffold talking and all. I think it was Mid Shot or Long Shot. Then lo and behold!!!!!!!!!!! I saw the sound mic!!!!!!!!!!! Omigosh!!!!!!!!!! So unprofessional!!!!!!!!!! I guess the director didn’t see it, or they were on a tight schedule and just cannot afford to re-shoot. This kind of shot I think very hard to damage control. I doubt one can rotoscope it out as well. Then again, maybe can rotoscope the mic out, but it’s gonna take a VERY long time and it’ll cost a lot. If I’m not wrong, it takes 1 hour in smoke to rotoscope something out of 1 frame. Since 1 second has 24 frames, that’ll means that one need 24 hours in smoke lor. And that mic was there for more than 1 sec ok… you do the math.

That’s about it actually. I’ll probably learn more stuff as the drama proceeds.

Prey to K-Dramas

Recently, I became fell into the trap of Korean dramas… there was one night whereby I was just channel surfing and then lo and behold!!! I stumbled onto Channel U’s ‘Stairway to Heaven’. I was the unknowing prey and the actors in the drama were the predators (then where’s the alien???? hahahaa, corny…) anyhoo, I fell to the charms of one Che Cheng Jun (actor’s real name is Kwon Sang Woo). I exclaimed a la some blondes that we know on TV… “oh my gosh!!! He’s like… oh my gosh…. totally gorgeous!!!!, totally dudette!!!” And hence, I got sucked into the drama-mama world K-drama… whilst other viewers are grabbing a dozen boxes of tissue, I was like… ‘Totally handsome dudette’… I was smiling to myself like a half-wit idiot, grinning from ear to ear…

Anyhoo, my obsession was made known to my dearly beloved friends around me… then lo and behold one of them actually has the entire drama on VCD!!!!!!!! I was like, totally awesome dude!!!!! I would have started singing: ‘the hills are alive, with the sound of music…la la la la…’ if I wasn’t working…

And so, after my kind-hearted friend loaned the drama to me on Sunday, I’ve been trying to squeeze some time after work to watch… today’s Tuesday and sad to say, I’ve only watched till episode 3… I wanted to ‘chong’ all the way… but alas, this body of mine cannot tahan the intense drama-mama of K-drama… and have to give up for the night… aiya, ok lah, the truth of the matter is that I need at least 8 hours of beauty rest everyday lah… otherwise hor, u see me talking nonsense and laughing at stupid things lah…

Anyhoo, I have some comments to make about the 1^st three episodes leh.. wah, u really hate that Youli and her mother (whatever her name is). wah piang, if I were in Jingshu’s shoes, I’ll play along with them mother-daughter team. Act like an angel in front of the father… then behind his back, wah, become the devil himself. You know, do inconspicuous tricks like cutting their shoe laces, breaking the heal of every shoe, cutting all the buttons on their clothes, substituting their soap/shampoo with bleach or something disgusting but odourless… you know, that kind of thing lah. Cannot take it lying down, cannot be a target for the disgusting mother-daughter to bully!!! Having said that, I have a disclaimer to make. I’m making all these statements without God in the picture lah. If put God in the picture, lagi power… I donch have to do anything, God Himself will defend me. Amen.

I think the mother damn greedy lor. She’s a famous actress already, so I would think that she has tons of money. Then marry Jingshu’s dad, lagi power, she’ll have more money. Then why would she want to instigate her daughter Youli to fight with Jingshu for Cheng Jun? Really you know, the poor may steal one watermelon, but sometimes the greedy rich will steal one truckload of watermelons.

Prayer for Singapore

Recently, I’ve noticed that in the sunny island of Singapore, some things have occurred that I’ve never really seen before. For example, the increase in instances of dengue fevers as well as some pretty gruesome murders.

I’ll like to pray for my country:

I plead the blood of Jesus on the country of Singapore. I ask that God will rescue Singapore from every trap and He’ll protect her from every plague. God will shield Singapore with His wings. Singapore will not be afraid of the terrors of the night nor fear the dangers of the day, nor the plague that stalks in darkness, nor disaster that strikes at midday. Though a thousand fall at Singapore’s side, though ten thousand at her right hand, these evils will not touch Singapore. in the name of Jesus I ask this, amen.

If this sounds familiar, it’s because it’s part of the Psalm 91.

Leviticus 27:12 – and the priest shall set a value for it, whether it is good or bad; as you, the priest, value it, so shall it be.

And I’ve set the value of Singapore, and so it shall it be. Amen.