My SPECIAL 300 POST!!!!!!!(Some highlights of my life from 2000-2007)

My SPECIAL 300 POST!!!!!!!!!!(Some highlights of my life from 2000-2007)

Before i start this 300 post wanna dedicate it too my two "NIC" friends! NICOLE and NICOLAS!!! Since ur bdays are like on 30 and 31 may!!!!

HAPPY SWEET SIXTEEN BIRTHDAY NICOLE TAN!!!!sorry wont put any pics of you in my blog,like wad u initially wanted!EXCEPT IN THE SALMON PHOTO way below! 

And in few mins time! HAPPY EIGHTEEN BIRTHDAY NICHOLAS LIM TOO aka my twin brother!!!! Well nicholas is one of my longest friend i ever known! since primary 5! got to know him when we were in the same sch soccer team...den...got to know him even better in primary 6 when we were in the same class 6D... den from then on same class with him till sec 4!!! 

INTERESTING!

My 300 post wld be mainly just photos from some highlights of my life from the year 2000 to currently 2007!!! Decided to keep this more of a photo post as I'M HAVING A SPLITING HEADACHE RIGHT NOW!!!arghhhhhhh!Just ate 2 panadols! And i got this Bibles for soccer tournament at 8.15AM TMR!!!! pls headache go away!!!!!!!!!

(2000)
(Can you spot meeee! Thats the St.gabriels primary school soccer team, when i was in primary 5, its in the year 2000!Thats some of us after a mini 5 aside tournament!I tink we won that mini tournament,it was at shan shan primary sch!I THINK!it was a practice tournament before the actual competitive 5-aside Snoopy Mini soccer tournament which our sch took part!)

(2001)

(It was raining thats why my hair seems weird! thats a clue to find me!.....St.Gabriels Primary 7-aside South Zone Champions 2001!!!!!...our st.gabriels primary first tournament that we won!, infact we rarely win tournaments during my time,but now st.gabs primary is like the BEST SOCCER TEAM in SINGAPORE AFTER my BATCH!...we normally don't fair well at the 11 aside zonal tournament.. I was made the vice captain in primay six here!!! This was the best combined st.gabs soccer team with the best players of the pri 5 and Pri 6! AND WE WERE SO SHOCKED TO ACTUALLY WIN IT!!! WE WON EVERY SINGLE MATCH TO get to the finals in this one day tournament! It was at newtown primary! WE BEAT the favourites st.micheals primary 2-1 in the finals! Infact we BEAT THEM TWICE in the grp stage too! Rmb i scored in both game each!HOW SWEET TO SCORE IN THE FINALS man!!!!This was actually the MOST MEMORABLE TOURNAMENT THAT I WON TILL NOW!!!! Bcoz it was the one that i really was involved the most!

2002----ST.GABRIELS SECONDARY!!! Sec 1! wasnt in sch team yet!)

2003----Got into the ST.GABS SCH team during the NATIONALS round,was sec 2 then. ..but cldnt find a team pic of us....still rmb we ALMOST GOT INTO THE NATIONAL FINALS,BUT we were somehow out bcoz of unforseem circumstances when certain 2 schs like somehow FIXED their match to get us out!!!!AND THE WINNER FOR that NATIONAL ROUND WLD GO TO THE MANCHESTER UNITED CUP FINALS AT OLD TRAFFORD!!!! WE WERE SOOOOOOOOO CLOSE LOR!

(2004)

(South-Zone Champions 2004!!!!Was sec 3 then! WE BEAT QUEENSWAY SEC 2-1 or 3-1..cant rmb.... AND THAT SCH BEAT US 6-1 in the grp stage actually! Our biggest LOST in st.gabs sec history i tink! And we did badly in nationals...)

(2005)

(South-Zone Runner up 2005!!! We lost to our arch rivals Bartley sec 3-1!..they really outclass us!... This was the batch that was told by our coach and soccer master to be the BEST SOCCER TEAM in ST.GABS SEC history!WE WERE FAVOURITES TO WIN THE NATIONALS!!!!With the first team almost all nationals! WITH CURRENT U-16 SINGAPORE CAPTAIN and Current Young Lions and Singapore key player Hariss Harun as our captain. the No.17 and abt five other Under-15 nationals then,and my friend jia hao who once captain a match for the U-16 Nationals too...Our team was made up OF SINGAPORE BRIGHTEST TALENT!Even i felt inferior to them! but it was a huge honour training and playing along side them!...WE WERE SOOO GOOD! we almost reach the NATIONAL FINALS AGAIN! Arghhh! although the 2003 batch was more closer!..we dominated in the first grp stage of nationals!!!was a sad way to end my soccer career in Secondary sch!sighhh)

(Elite 62! thats our unofficial own soccer team name bcoz we were all from 4E2 and 4E6!!this picture was taken at our ST.GABS GRADUATION DAY!we ONLY HAD a MASS service and a buffet Lunch in SCHOOL! how boring lor!!!!My Hair LOOKED WEIRD then!!eeeks!..actually this wasnt like a major highlight..but put this photo bcoz NICOLAS LIM is here!so at least the 2 bdays friends of mine appeared in this post!)

(SALMON!!!!!!!!!! salmon swim,salmon splash,salmon go against the rest!! Salmon all the way!!!

I just loveeeeee this grp lor!!!!This was my first and MOST MEMORABLE YM CAMP EVER! THE YEAR 2005! after my o's!!!! THE CAMP THAT CHANGE MY LIFE!!!!! read my 200 special post here http://benlau89.blogspot.com/2007/01/my-special-200-posts-and-exciting-2006.html to find out my life change!)

(2006)

(My life in CJC for the First 3 mths 2006!!!! WAH THE MOST MEMORABLE SCH IN MY LIFE although onli just 3 mths there! CLASS OF 1T02 2006(First 3 mths) ROCK LOR!...love this classsssssss!details in my 200 special post!http://benlau89.blogspot.com/2007/01/my-special-200-posts-and-exciting-2006.html)

(My CJC class 1T02 Reunion at East Coast park! MISS THEM!!! SOBBBB =( )

(Some of the Crusaders from Tp and RP!at the SM retreat!..campus crusade for christ another major thing in my life in TP from 2006)

(My Small grp God's Clay POOL DAY! the day where the "CIRCLE OF TRUST" started! Our YSG actually bonded pretty much on this day)
(YM CAMP 2006!! 1 Chronicles 16:25 GRP!! My first time being a camp grp leader here! We ALMOST WON THE BEST GRP AT THE CAMP! but came in second place in the end! THAT KEITH grp LOR! just beat us by 1 or 2 pts!!!grhhhhhh! )

(MY BELOVED SMALL GRP! GOD'S CLAY!!! at our second yr end retreat 2006)

(TRP crusaders at Metamorphosis camp 2006!!!!)

(2007)

(THE TRP MISSION TEAM IN SELANGOR!!!!!Details in links here...http://benlau89.blogspot.com/2007/04/selangor-mission-trip-part-1.html , http://benlau89.blogspot.com/2007/04/selangor-mission-trip-part-2-26-mar-to.html)

If u noticee!... from 2000-2005!my life was JUST ABT SOCCER! and after that Ym camp 05 in December ..2006-2007! Life was EXCITING! to being more involve in christian ministry. like,crusade,church,my small grp!!! and that wonderful time in CJC!..details of my life in 2006 here...http://benlau89.blogspot.com/2007/01/my-special-200-posts-and-exciting-2006.html

GDOP 2007!!!! and MY FINAL MODEL and STORYBOARDS!!!!!!!!(Post 299!!!!..1 more to.SPECIAL 300!!!)

GDOP 2007!!!! and MY FINAL MODEL and STORYBOARDS!!!!!!!!(Post 299!!!!..1 more to entry to SPECIAL 300!!!)

(got this pic from sen... The number 14! THATS me in ACTION!!!)

(Soe,Vyan and me at bus stop after church!!!!!)

(I guess the only highlight for me at GDOP 2007! Andrew,josh,jolyn,jedrick and me literally RAN from the gallery seats and ran round the stadium to the ground level to enter to the front of the stage! where they had the YOUTH WORSHIP!!! The worship leader really look like pastor Jeremy seaward lor!!!)

(MY FINAL MODEL!!!! for the first phrase of block 1 is DONEEEE!....submisssion in 14 hrs time!)

(BCOZ of this 2 storyboards which i did the ENTIRE DAY! more than 15 hrs doing! THATS why i cldn't sleep at all from yesterday! BEEN AWAKE FOR MORE THAN 44 hrs oready!!!!!!onli took a short nap at 8plus am this morning..sleepyyy!)

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN!!!! (This is the 298 post!!!...SPECIAL 300 COMING SOON!)

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN!!!! (This is the 298 post!!!...SPECIAL 300 COMING SOON!)
Yesterday went to watch PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN!!!! with some of the gappers, nicole,jolyn,denise,matthias and andrew! It was a good break yesteday not touching my model at all and just moving away from my project 2 for once! Anyway was waiting for this movieeee for a loooooooooooong time! it was quite a loooooooong movie!I find it a little draggy at the start,was almost falling asleep,maybe was quite tired from the day before but...The main cast jack sparrow only appeared like 30mins into the movie... but in the end it kinda got more exciting...the ending was actually quite good!oh well...will give a rating of 3/5 stars.
Anyway after movie were all were late for GAP!so rush down.....david lead worship, and he did a pretty good job!Felt quite ministered during worship..just reflecting over the week and its just so refreshing coming for gap every friday nites! This week was much better actually,like enjoyed the last 2 sessions of biblestudy with crusade on wednesday and my small grp on thursday! I really seee so much potential in my grp if we really continue to meet up regulary to just have biblestudy and learn from one another thru the very fruitful discussions!

(Piratesssssssssssssssss!.....The Cheddar Cheese Pretzel pieces is just so ADDICTIVE eveyone that tried it after Gap just cldnt stop munching on it!Especially Wanping who stole the entire box from me and just ate and ateee after gap!Yummmyyyyy!)

(The things we do in our Studio!..Gifford and Azmi playing Checkers with this tinycircularbox thingys from azmi model....I played with azmi first and i drew with him! Quite a good stress reliever!hee!)

(The Wesley Ym soccer team 2007! Dun be fooled by the happy faces! bcoz we were thrashed for the first time even with this pretty strong batch of wesley ym team!This is supposedly my first game in charge after shashi step down, our star players like ben yap(injured) and shashi (retired) werent there.) (Sen took this picture!...still waiting for the pics he took of me during the game! catch it sooon!=)

(FINALLY FINISH MY FINAL MODEL of the Transistional space infront of Far East Plaza for 2030!!!...check out my next post with the light simulations!!!!)

Awesome crusade SOLEAD Graduation at Faith Methodist Church!..FINALLY MY MODEL DESIGN IS ACCEPTED!!!! yipeee!...(this is my 297 post! catch y SPECIAL

Awesome Crusade SOLEAD Graduation at Faith Methodist Church!..FINALLY MY MODEL DESIGN IS ACCEPTED!!!! yipeee!...(this is my 297 post! catch my SPECIAL 300 post soon!)
Monday!Campus Crusade SOLEAD Graduation at Faith Methodist Church!!!
I was rushing my model and process work the entire nite and day...but decided to stop work and rush down to Faith methodist church at nite for this event...
it was where all the crusaders in singapore gathered for the graduation of crusade stinters as well as to commission of the wave 2 mission trippers! Worship lead by the FORERUNNERS WAS AWESOMEEEE! I gotta admit its way better than wesley ym worship on sunday! And one of the worship leaders in this crusade forerunners is from wesley methodist church lor! Shessss super GOOOD! But the extra thing that made worship so great compared to wesley ym service on sunday was just seeing the sight and being in the presence of sooo many passionate christians really worshipping their hearts out and really lifting their voices to God....if only wesley ym is like this!sighh..

(the Duck noodles from the hawker centre next to faith methodist church is AWESOME!Love the sauceeee!)

(TRP crusaders before event started with the star of the day AMBER!(the one with the flowers) who is graduating from her stint in crusade)

(More TRP crusaders again after the event)

(thats my disciple JEM, aka "my younger brother" ...eveyone say we look alike lor!)

(FAITH METHODIST CHURCH really brings back memories of FUSION 2006!!! when i went there with charles! really enjoyed that time here!)

Tuesday!(submission of models!)

(Gifford HUGE MODEL! seee my small model behind his in the background...but poor gifford, lost all his process work and handphone after it was stolen last nite!)

(I like the cool shadows, gives it an extra effect to my model)

(My model has been finally accepted by my lecturer! And he kinda like it! He said it was A VERY VERY HUGE IMPROVEMENT FROM MY previous models!..he like rejected all my other model design 3-4 times lor! AND FINALLYY ALL THE LATE NITES trying to build this model is finally more or less done! this is like the toughest module of my entire life in TP so far!!!!!!but den Yipeeeeeeeeeee! VERY HAPPY TODAY!)

WESLEY YM WORSHIP WAS AWESOMEEEEEEE!!!!!

WESLEY YM WORSHIP WAS AWESOMEEEEEEE!!!!! (My 296 post!...SPECIAL 300 COMING SOON!)today just had one of the best worship sessions in a loooooooooooooong time!first at 930..I was like the only gooon in my area jumping to those jumpy songs!Although did notice sandy jumping too! But now i dun care in being ashamed of God, if i want to jump for our LORD i wld just do it!Why wld i care if i loook like a goondoo! After that was YSG time..and i was so SHOCKED at the SAME TIME EXTREMELY HAPPY to see vyan back again! THANKS BRO for coming back to church! You really made my day!...I was so hype and good mood! I immediately went to meet,keith,ken,shawn smallgrp...and decided to join their YSG for 1130 service too! AND 1130 was SOOO MUCH HYPE LOR!Got some of them to Jump along with me too! we really need to create that Joyful atmosphere in YM again! And when songs like TILL THE TIME HAS COME,GOD IS GREAT! was played i just jumped till i was so tired!Yangshen really led worship well! WORSHIP WAS SOOO GOOD!I notice the girl beside me actually started to sniff as though she was tearing after the last song,dunno if it was bcoz she was clearing her nose,or she was actually tearing from the really ministering worship session!
After church had our wesley Ym soccer match against Living waters church at ACS I ASTRO TURF!!!!very nice field! Its suppose to be my first match incharge after shashi step down, although chieh ming was the main person doing the managerial role.WELL IT WAS EXTREMELY HOT in the first half! I wont go into the details of the match...but my calf suddenly cram up while challenging for the ball in the late first half!So was sub out for awhile..btw we led first 1-0.... den losing 2-1 at half time...AND YOU DUN WANT TO KNOW THE FINAL SCORE!our second half team,we had a couple of weaker players...and SUDDENLY WE WERE HAMMERED!I cld just see from the touch line goals pouring in!And it was all messy goals,quite tyco!I was quite desperate to get back in play! So I played on again with my cram calf!...sighh.....wesley ym biggest lost i think!!!Anyway on the way home had an extremely loooooooooong bus ride back with chiehming and josiah, we actually took the wrong bus direction at first..but overall it was a nice loooong journey discussing abt wesley ym soccer future and plans!I also got to know josiah better after that like 1 hr plus bus ride!! I tink its like one of the longest bus rides i ever took in a very long time!NOW RUSHING MY MODEL! YOU GOT TO SEEE MY LATEST MODEL SOOON in the next entry........)

CCN DAY!!!...MAKING MORE MODEL AGAINS!

CCN DAY!!!...MAKING MORE MODEL AGAINS!
Friday!
It was CCN DAY in TP! which was something like a carnival where funds will be given to the needy students in TP. Well it wasnt as FUN or HYPE as last yr one.
(This station was supposedly my care grp stall! Its quite a stupid idea lor..who wld pay money to throw waterbombs on just painted faces!It will be so much fun if its real human faces!)

(I somehow unintentionally manage to charm the girl to give me 3 scoops of ice cream from a supposedly single scoop order which cost $2.50 ONLY!and I think 3 scoops suppose to cost like $4 lor!)

(The turtle race was quite cool!)

(the IPOD NANO WAS STOLEN LOR! somebody went to unscrew the ipod holder!)
After CCN DAY!..went for GAP! and den had a really fun time of FELLOWSHIP over supper! I still remember chieh ming story of this guy joke from his barker student! IT WAS SUPER HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!
Saturday
Today had to go school in the morning..to consult my lecturer, and AGAIN my model was rejected for the 3rd time!=( Well..actually i somehow agree that it can be improved much much better,bcoz the past 1-2 weeks were so busy!and preparing for 2 biblestudies!until my sch work became 2nd in priority!And didnt had much brain juice left to improve on it.
After that rush to church for MLM..it was a pretty good session on mentoring, and it was like a crash course on the mentoring workshop i went at the FUSION conference not long ago under Benny Ho! So it was quite a good recap.....and we felt it was quite relevant to our grp now...Like we had to go thru peer leadership and its something like me mentoring my other peer small grp members as well as in crusade where I have to disiciple my new freshies. After this meeting... Englee told ellen and me that he wld like to mentor us and 2 other potential leaders in our small grp... and at the same time.I heard from my sis that the head of YM leaders Joyce wants to mentor me too!wow..actually feel quite honoured to be mentored by her..but i kinda feel i have to turn down that offer,bcoz like abit weird having so many mentors at once too. And i guess Glenn if your reading this..i guess u are like a mentor to me too! =)
ARGHHH MAN UTD LOSE TO THAT YUCKTY CHELSEA IN THE FA CUP FINAL in EXTRA TIME!=(

oh gosh! i have become someone starfish!arghhh!poorbennnn!

(my recent idea that go rejected!..the maze like cuttings were too random!and not much space and spatial circulation can be seen here)

(this is the model which ive been redoing now... its only 1/3 done! still looooooong way to go!but expect this one to ebe sooo much more bettter! check out the final product soooon!)

THE BEST SMALL GRP BIBLE STUDY TIME EVER!!!!!!!!!!!

THE BEST SMALL GRP BIBLE STUDY TIME EVER!!!!!!!!!!!
Entire day was mainly preparing for my biblestudy with my small grp today...its the first time my grp was actually doing a real proper bible study out of sunday! In the morning i was so stress up lor! Bcoz onli moonie replied my sms..and the rest was unsure or cldnt come! so i thought to myself... wad happen if onli the 2 of us! BUT i thought no matter wad..i wld still continue at least if one other person come! And i actually put in so much more preparation for this meeting instead of crusade bcoz doing a book study like 1Thessalonians isnt easy!And i really saw the desire in me in wanting to help my small grp grow more!I really wanted the meeting to be fulfilling! ...Anyway rush from TP to church after doing an evaluation from our session yesterday! and moonie,samuel,justin and my small grp leader EngLee all came in the end! I was so encourage by the attendence...despite the small number still,this actually made discussion better! AND... it was the first time that my grp members actually realise what REAL BIBLESTUDY really is like!I never experience this type of session until i was in crusade lor!So i wasnt surprise that my members experience this for the first time. I mean with just a simple 1 chapter of 1Thessalonians,and we can branch up and talk abt so many things and different views of seeing it!Even i myself learn so much from leading today!

Crusade LifeMeetings really just make my day!!!!

Crusade LifeMeetings really just make my day!!!!
Actually started of the day a little stress and down..bcoz immediately when i arrived sch..had my consultation abt the concept model which i did the over last nite...and I WAS KINDA CRITIQUE quite badly!bcoz my orignal model was not related to the site at all, the elements i added in the first level were blocking the walkway! And i was just bombarded by my lecturer!I felt quite down...after that...bcoz i had to redo my model AGAIN! actually thats not the main issue,the way my lecturer critique me was quite harsh...at least tell me in a nice way la.
Oh well... Campus Crusade LifeMeeting! really refresh me! I started feeling quite tired and not very enthu yet during the icebreaker and sharing. AND I HAD TO LEAD MY Discipleship grp for the FIRST TIME during the bible study part later in the LM! After awhile into the LM...more and more freshies came!It was just before worship when hannah and ernie the contacts i got earlier, brought quite a number of their other friends along! And the turn out was like 32-36 ppl this time!Although today quite alot of freshies cldnt make it. Just seeing so many new faces really make my day!And not just that..while we were in the amphitheatre,there was this 2 guys at the back practising some song with a guitar.After awhile we realise they were playing a Christian WORSHIP song!"ONE VOICE"!Although they won't crusaders! BUT somehow around the amphitheatre today WAS JUST CHRISTIANS gathering together! After that lead my DG guys...i was a little nervous and quite uptight at the start..but after awhile the discussions became more active! AND EVEYONE WAS TALKING! I started to enjoy it even more and became more relax!!!.... and it didnt stop there.... DINNER TIME WAS THE BEST! I think this is the FIRST DINNER OUTING AFTER LM that I LAUGH SOOO HARD NON STOP!!!!Nicholas and glenn just kept crapping with all their JOKES and STORIES and it was SUPER SERIOUSLY HILARIOUS, you got to be there to know what i mean!!!!Kept laughing so much until cannot finish my food lor!

(My model which i redo! AGAIN! this time fitted with my site plan! It looks similar to the last model but its a totally new and improved one!)

(Glenn did a min or so advertising of his CHOP STICK PROTECTOR! he claim this can save washing of chopsticks! Irene actually video tape him in the act! And I notice passerbys around were ALL STARING LAUGHING AT HIS ADVERTISING! )

Overnite work on concept model again!

Overnite work on MY concept model again!
Finally my blogger is working! YAY! Just realise that all i needed do was to clear the internet cookies and history! And now i can blog from home!Yipeeeee!
Wah the next two days i'm gonna lead in 2 different bible studies! first in crusade LM tmr and my own small grp thursday! Really hope i can make the first Dg session and ysg time a impactful! AND not only just that..been working on my concept model again thru out the nite! This time a more successful one which is half way done!


(this time model shows a stronger concept of the maze theme from the layout well as the exterior)(But this are all half done only...still got alot of additional refining to do.)

(My half done concept model for the transistional space in Far East Plaza)