• learning to read reports on horse-racing
• learning how to play bridge
• learning how to play badminton better
• learning other languages like spanish and malay

i want to learn how to play bridge because my primary school friends are playing bridge now, so i would like to learn to play. i realised it is quite fun just seeing them play, so i want to learn it.

learning how to play badminton better is so i can win my maid, whom is quite good. she always thrashes me during practice sessions and i am not too happy to get thrashed everytime.

oh wait! someone just pressed the doorbell. ah, i am back. i get very irritated whenever someone presses the doorbell, especially so when my grandparents are nearer to he gate and can see who is at the gate. they would just stand there and continue watching television programmes as though they didn't hear the doorbell. how irritating is that! anyway, i have changed this thinking as most likely, they would not know who the person is, so they would not open the gate. however, i am rather fed up with their morning routine.

1. wake up
2. on the TV
3. read newspaper
4. have breakfast
5. go to room
6. go out

this is for grandpa. next is for grandma.

1. wake up
2. on the radio
3. read newspaper
4. have breakfast
5. ask me "have you eaten"

...and so on. what irritates me is that my grandpa does not watch the TV program but occasionally glances at it but the volume of the TV is 40, disturbing those who are still sleeping. likewise for my grandma-turn on the radio but never listen. turn on radio but ever listen is okay, just don't let the volume be too loud!!! once, our whole family just got into the car, the car engine was just turned on and we heard a sound- a familiar fart sound coming from my grandpa. we immediately said "oooiii!" and he had the nerve to say "buay chao lah". what the heck right. anyway, i don't really care about all this anymore, i guess i am used to all these noise. what still irritates me though is my grandma's without-fail question: "have you eaten" in teochew. want to eat you eat lah, i hungry i will eat what. coming home from school, reading newspapers in the morning, lunchtime, dinnertime, "have you eaten??" it makes me very irritated. aaaaaaarrrggghhh!!!!!!!!!!! however, its nice to have more people in the house and i am grateful for that.

i still remember this particular verse though i read it quite long ago.

"Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship."--Romans 12:1