sigh. a month till exams trying to go hard out but lol have a lot of stuff to cover, anyways spring is here and its a bit warmer tho weather still erratic. spending any other available time in lib trying to cram work in.. so far quite ok closer to time not so sure.. time also drawing near to go home to SG. about time too.. getting sick of food here real bad.. cant wait for mum and grand parents cookng.. gotta hang in there for a bit longer.. *break over* back to study.. sad life eh

ah .. its been so long since i last blogged. last time was just to put up pics.. cant recall when i last wrote anything,. life has been crazy, 1 month to exams.. last wk was on break but had 2 essays to do 2 tests to study for and tons of math homework. just handed in 1 essay today and just finished other one( i think). got to start on math hmework and revision soon.. anyways so far i have been ok celebrated my bday last wed and dang it was nice.. not one of my usual birthdays tats for sure Comm A kicks ASS... anyways sigh sad most time i blog is when things are rough but haha this is no exception. have a nice classmate who i help her with work and stuff and i was like eh her characteristics quite pleasant.. and just when i intend to ask her out just found out sat she got a BF few days earlier.. and that just sux so bad.. talk bout lousy with ladies, cant realli get any worse than tat .. other than tat trying not to think bout it too much cos exams coming and hopefully when go back will pretty much forget bout it.. hmm trying to do so now .. not as ez as i tot.. anyways back to books later all
(shout out to anyone left reading this)

hi all these pics were taken last fri.. background had a 2 hr brk and so couple of frens(in picture) decided to go to st clairs. drove there enjoyed scenery i took following pics then went back for class. weather was great.. scenery was too but just went wanted to get pic of seagulls camera batt died so no pic of those birds oh well.. at least managed to take there pics

hi after a long hiatus here are the much awaited pics

ah well its been quite some time since i've been here in dunedin and i decided to sit down and recap how my life has
changed since coming here.. and well sad to say it hasnt been as fruitful as i had hoped. when i say this its not the results or studying cause that aspect has been great.. the problem is how i have developed as a person. things that i have looked down upon and distanced myself from have somehow changed me. and i dun mean for the better
I guess its time andrew lincoln wakes up and realises what has happened..for one my walk with the Lord has sort of stagnated and well im not as involved in church as i used to be back home. On the one hand as close i try to get to God, somehow things will come and blow it off course.. this is not something to be proud of and am battling to try to restore the balance. On the whole as i'm getting to meet more people and develop frenships.. i have seen many kinds of pple here in uni.. the whole student drinking culture is too real for comfort. pple u dun normally speak to will become good frens and well it is somewhat unsettling.. it seems drinking is the few ways of meeting people as absurd as it sounds.. here to pple drinking and smoking complement each other for some weird reason.. relationships wise.. well still same ol.. sux at it so not much change there.. only thing that i wanna bring up is that its true the more u spend time with someone the more attached u feel to the person.. and well in my case it sux big time. somehow things have ways of not working out the way u wan so haha have to deal with the reprecussions. and u'll be surprised how when u spend time with someone many things about them u'll be willing to overlook. from little things to big things somehow pple get drawn in and by the time they realise it , it will be too late and have to deal with the heartache that will follow.. moral of the story watch urself well and for crying out loud open ur eyes when dealing with others. cos i for one didnt and well long story short.. ended up trying to go after someone who back in singapore i wouldnt give a second glance.. but hey its all part of learning.. only exception to this is if pple change but who are u to know if and when they'll change.. recovery process is slow but getting there.. oh yeah back to topic.. altho i think as time passed i feel my values haven changed much certain things have been 'accepted' as the norm here but i guess its time i make a stand and lay my foot down on these. I'll try to walk back into the path set for me by the big man upstairs and hopefully if all goes well when i get back ill become a better person. apl's serious blog over...:)

its finally thursday.. can feel weekend upon me.. gd time to.. been given so many assignments its not funny.. have gotten some pics from ski trip to queenstown from some frens(mine not saved onto usb just yet so have to wait while longer while i figure out how to do so frm my cam. sch wise has been like i said tough and busy but its still better than staying home wonder wat to do. been spending some time studying with frens at hostel so its been good.. room wise still messy but liveable.. haven cooked proper meal since moving in and well looking at the kitchen doubt i ever will at least here anyway.
frens wise still quite good but lol if only life was tat simple where everything is so peaceful.. haha oh well.. no one ever said life is smooth..
one of my close frens recently got hooked up and well i am supposed to feel happy for person but well opposite is tru.. feel glad for them bt at same time feel like crap for watever reason.. now dilemma is whether to just be there and stay silent or just mind my own biz and left it drift away( i dun exactly mean drinking myself silly altho tat is tempting haha..
cos wat i am sure is that looking at things are now.. frenship will never go anywhere cos generally one pple get attached they seem to drift away from frens.. so contemplating speeding the process since i wont lose much cept mayb herfrenship which one looking back has been well ok.. more time to contemplate this aspect of life and well tis is part tat sux.. next post will be of pics from trip from frens
enjoy

ah.. sigh back to sch tmr.. just got back from ski trip to queenstown and it was a blast had a great time took some nice shots and just hung out with my classmates and frens much more so it was all good will try to upload pics onto site soon. now the tough part comes, which is to crank up the engine to get back into study groove once again.. other than tat 2nd sem has been more intensive work wise and starting to get back on right track.. relationships wise.. still sux in tat dept.. but guess in order to set myself back on track and carry on with life, drastic times call for drastic measures.. wat do i mean? still working on tis aspect cos as much i as dun wan to resort to wat i had to do in spore.. the situatiion may call for it to be done one last time,, stil in the dark? oh well just my way of dealing with relationship probs no big deal.. ah yeah where was i.. have quite a few assignments and presentations due so have started to work on them now so that closer to time i wont be so stressed.. for now cant think of anymore to write about so ill leave more time for inspiration to come.. Cheers for now
APl

An so the day has once again passed in the 2nd last week of the mid semester break.. brings bittersweet thoughts as even though classes will resume soon after finding out my results which were less than satisfactory but were sufficient to keep me here whew.. the reality sets in that i have a lot of ground to cover .. as such will have to get back into the gear of studying even in the final week of the break. to top it off.. this is my second day in my 'new' flat and well even tho i get my space.. to be honest i still have a funny feeling bout this place.. a bit late but its not horrible enuff to regret just yet but other than its price and location, thats all the benefits it has actually the rest are just quirks which hopefully can be resolved asap. altho i save the money from taking a cab home. somehow still find it weird i just pray and hope this feeling will go away.. im ok with staying by myself its just that the accommodation now gives a veri diff vibe which i am and will be wary of. doesnt help this place doesnt have net so actually wrote this blog on wordpad before using uni internet to send it to blog.. sad 5 mths+ without internet at finger tips will be rough tats for sure.. less i stay at com lab but now too soon to say.. ill be honest im worried because given the circumstances i really hope to be able to survive here cos as optimistic i am presently well i have doubts just cant put finger on it
there are points i will miss staying with my aunt and well cons there are .. helped shape decision making process a bit
well in a surprising new feature bout me.. my walk with GOd has had it tough points here.. somehow church integration to elim isnt goin as smooth as i hoped and well up to now still bit shaky in it.. friend wise here have made many good friends and close frens .. altho journey has been interesting with diff characters.. whilst i had more frens in church in SG here most of frens are not from my church,, so i have a vast variety of pple who are quite diff to me in many aspects but have been able to adapt well here . In another bold move on my part to open up.. area of BGR in my life has been well less than ideal as well.. when i first came had a crush but didnt last cos of well overwhelming differences haha.. good thing it blew over reasonably fast.. now well there is someone interesting i know but well basically she's everything that i didnt expect i would fall for in a person.. however given present situation friendship is all we are and well would prob keep it this way for the time being as well , as much as i find her intruiging and mysterious, i have realised that things maynot be all they seem and so now am just taking it slow and observing to see what the future brings.. if things go well, which i hope they do then things may get interesting .However if nothing improves well if being friends is all we can be then its good enough for me. I have made the mistake of revealing feelings i have had for pple in the past and so far haha all have blown back in my face so now am goin to try and be wiser to sit tight. If the chance comes along great if not well that is life. I would rather she not hear it from me and make things awkward as friends cos i will not jeapordise this friendship because of my revelation. So even if she gets attached to someone else.. it wont realli phase me. my only concern and prayer is that she'll be happy and be with a guy of reasonable character and not end up with some jerk and end up getting hurt as eventhough these are beyond my control.. i wouldnt want it to happen to her let alone anyone else i noe.. as u can c this is a weird thing to say but for now its all i am feeling .who is this mystery gal? haha wouldnt u like to noe.. if it is meant to be u'll know if not then well some times are just left unexplained .
haha realise this is realli un-Andrew like but guess in my journey to become a better person this time of reflecting is sort of necessary and well sharing with family/frens is something which i want to do.. even if someone else comes along at least they can read this tragic/ or not interesting blog .. ah well getting late and shld be getting some slp night so tats all for blog on sun 9 jul 3am nz time..
AnDreW

greetings to whoever still reads this.. have been dead quiet here first of exams and now becos its too boring with nothing to do i have decided to revive this pretty much dead blog.. well not tat i have anything better to do anyway.. miss spore so much cos here there's absolutely nothing to do unlike spore where is a city tat never sleeps.. counting months till i return and go wild(in a manner of speaking at least) ..
The prev posts was taken on sun , it was a fishing trip with me and my uncle from singapore. he was teachig me how to fish and the little thing in the bag is a small fish i caught but released cos was too small to be worth cooking.. oh well u win some u lose some.. and at a point in my stay where im a bit anxious cos firstly i may be moving to flat out by myself and secondly cos im not sure if i can make it to the 2nd sem .. the reasons are as follow's the papers were much harder than i expected so as prepared as i was.. somehow seemed a bit below standard.. so praying like mad tat will get thru and now have been looking arnd for place cos taking a 10 buck cab right when i want to go home at night is not veri fun.. not to mention cold standing waiting for it to arrive.. ah well other than tat same old same old trying to lose weight but dumb cold not making it any easier. option is when flat out since cant cook well prob end up eating less and will still lose weight only not by choice haha .. anyways will blog again soon when boredom strikes(which is prob tmr) later all
ApL(frozen in DnD)

haiz.. 4 down 2 to go.. exams i mean.. been so busy with papers haven blogged in a while.. anyways since 2 more to go gonna to have to go all out cos past few papers have been hard and lol a bit worried may not make it.. which will be sad considering realli wanna do well and get to uni.. holidays are coming up as well but for now have no idea wat to do am hoping to be able to travel and take some pics cos site a bit sparse now. wil input some pics from my class dinnner.. erm quite some time ago but haven had chance to post them.. here are a few
of them

sigh... today official marks the time left before exams to a week.. 7 days of all out mugging.. not fun but for desperation sake i gotta.. well for all those who think i didnt study.. i did just didnt memorise them well now its time to memorise them. cos for a few of my subj's i know generally wat its about hard part is to get into details which can be a bit hazy..Winter has set it and well only few days and im already missing spore heat and sun.. woke up tis morning freezing while wearing 3 layers of clothing..(ok fine fine they were quite thin layers)
gd thing is tat ive started studying in lib.. bad thing is i have transport probs cos stay a bit too far away.. anyways taking time to update blog before exam and hopefully will have time to update it again soon later
APL

Morning World.. anyways a new day to face new things.. from a fresh perspective(and a few hrs to slp on it) well honestly from a purely christian perspective.. i shld just take it and learn from it.. so as crappy as i feel and stuff i guess i will always be the dumb sucker who cares for others whether they appreciate it or not.. guess its in built in my dna.. just figured no matter how some treat u.. in the long run it;ll pay off.. anyways so off to farmers market then to choir then to badminton then to study grp then to dinner at aunts frens house.. wow quite a day if u ask me but at least can reflect on events that have occured lately.. Guys in singapore in CM.. miss u guys heaps

Ol' Reliable A-P-L

Haah.. after few days, finally decided time to update blog(yeah yeah andrew's getting slack.. must be the cold) its getting real cold here in dunedin.. but haha still no where near full on in winter... things getting busy as exams in less than a month.. started revision but lol its realli a lot to cover will be attempting to go full on for alll my subjects.. other than tat so far nothing realli fascinationg happening here other than mugging and trying to keep warm.. and lose weight but seems impossible as colder it gets more seem to eat to keep warm.. anyways pretty much settled here tried to get used to weather but easier said than done.. am hoping wont get to freeze cos as muc i wan to c snow i wan to survive to go home and enjoy xmas.. haven been able to add pics cos well have pretty much been stuck here.. and im not the sort of person who takes pics of myself and well i my opinion hah will never b.. rather be photographer than subject.. wil try to update more but hah since exams here have to actually put more work in so yeah bookworm andy coming soon
till next post peace out

whew thnx heaven its fri haha the weekend is upon us.bout time too almost dying in economics cos replacement teacher realli bites.. for some reason she seems to enjoy picking me to ask me stuff which i have no idea bout thnx to her "interesting " way of teaching.. hang in there... 1 more week b4 king of econs simon gets back then haha bye bye evil lady.. gives me more incentive not to attempt any more econs after tis.. well tat remains to be seen tho

other than tat week was quite ok with few interesting moments but overall it was tiring. am starting to get stressed cos exams are in bout a month.. so haha now panicking but frantically goin thru my work.. no more slacking arond time to work till wee hours of morning(as if i can survive anyway)
anyways since pretty much stuck in here maynot have many more pics to show but will post some of asean nite which was quite a big sucess and which i had part(albeit small) to play in .. good thing is im not in tat many photos and trust me its better for us all. u'll c why when i post pics

(bad hair day)...

Wil post again asap ..Ciao

hi these are some of the pics taken from my trip to fiordland enjoy ;)

sigh.. in case ur wondering wat im doin at home blogging on a sun morning cos i've come down with a cough and well i've been advised to stay home and keep germs to myself.. which would be a good cept for the fact that i have never missed church as far back as i can remember.. Even in Trinity if i was slightly sick i would still attend but well in this case not really up to me. Was encouraged to stay home.. so well no use trying to change anything. Prob listen to sermons online and listen to worship cd's as a substitute (even if it is a bad replacement). well easter brk is pretty much over and well time to start goin all out for studies . no more taking things easy i have a lot at stake and have no intention of messing it up. Hard to believe a week of rest has passed so fast. Gotta start getting ready for school and switch back to studyin mode. This term is much shorter than the first so there'll be a lot more at stake so for my sake better not screw it up. however something has come to my attention which i feel like posting.. well basically i have no idea who actually reads this but heck those that noe me know im a pretty average person who believes God and takes things pretty seriously. However since coming here i feel something has changed bout me. To be honest i have no idea what it is but i know something has changed and well still unsure if its for better or worse. Its not my core values that have changed cos i still take them veri seriously. But deep down.. i know something is diff and well have to find out what it is ASAP. all i know is that i dun feel as connected to TCC as i feel at Elim.. somehow in TCC everione seemed friendlier.. dun get me wrong pple in elim r friendly its just tat.. for me after service at TCC is time where can fellowship with frens but here in elim after service pple break into their smaller cliques and disappear so in the end im left standing like a blooming fool.. it could be just me but in the terms of hanging out with fellow believers this is one of the biggest things i miss about TCC.. but elim has its strong points for one the worship is good .. cell wise or lifegroup wise. well its all right tho still getting used to all guy all girl cell settings.(haha its gonna mess with my system when i return)
i still read the word and pray but still the whole setting here in dunedin i find highly strange and well even after being here for nearly 5 months still not as settled as i would like to be. ah well prob think and reflect bout it and will post thoughts here..