update

camp was great! it was really encouraging to see how the FOC itself has grown, from the year i attended it to now. :) God has really blessed this ministry. this camp, I realised how little I loved God. How shallow my love for Him is. God loves us so, but what about us? When we sing about laying down our lives for Him, do we really really mean it? sometimes i hesitate at those lines, unsure of my own resolution/intentions.

anyway, the camp was a great time for myself. I had the opportunity to serve w my girls, as well as to minister to them, in times of their stress and sorrow. makes the camp sound so mournful huh. but it really was a meaningful time for me. and it was so heartwarming to see my dg girls rise up to serve, stepping out of their comfort zone. and this encourages me to put in even more time and effort into discipling them in the coming sem.

and, the games were great! might be able to import them to our yr end camp :D

now, busy preparing to go China for the kids summer camp. gg to extend my passport in awhile. it expires next yr 3feb. i'm leaving on 2aug this yr. but then when i return, my passport won't have 6 months validity alrd. the ICA pple (after putting me on hold for 15 mins) said to ask China immigration, whose phone i haven't been able to get through since an hour ago. so i figured better to go extend it than to not be able to come back singapore.

hmm. bros and sis in christ, pls pray for safety and health for my team and i. and pray for opportunities to share with the children/adult volunteers. we aren't allowed to talk to the children about the gospel openly, so pray that we'll be able to bring God's love to them through our interactions, and whatever other opporunities we have. there're still a lot of uncertainties. we don't know our itinerary, don't know the condition of the place we're staying at. so please pray that i'll be able to tahan if the conditions there are super dirty.

i'd love to share more, but there's no time to. so, that's it! i'll be leaving on 2aug on an 8am flight, coming back on a 1pm flight on 9aug. i might even be in time to watch the ndp parade! haha.

ps to renny. I want to go for your gig on 10aug! will sms/call again when i'm back. shehui/clique, lets go tgt ok!

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my document

my new cool laptop bag! it was bought online from Shinnpark.com (note the link on my blog :D. the link entitles me to a 10% discount). it cost me $38, a lil ex for a laptop bag i'll say. but i liked it alot. mulled over it and in the end still decided to get it :D

i was actually v tired when i got home, after a whole day out. started with ocip meeting at 9.30, then piano lessons till 5, then ice cream chef (they were all high lar!) w p&p, kai, james, then fellowship at church. i was half dead when i reached home. THEN, i saw the package lying on my desk. :D i love the excitement of receiving a parcel. yay! recharged me to do work. preparing for tmr's bible study.

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official

the resting/slacking period is officially over! sigh. no more days of slacking and doing nothing. there's the crusade camp from mon-wed (plus sun night too since there's day zero for the gls). and then on thurs morn i'm expected at the office. and there's work due on thurs. which means that somehow i've to squeeze time out to finish work before thurs. either tmr night or wed night after camp. hmm. and then kunming next sunday! which means that we're putting in a lot more effort now in terms of preparation cos the trip is so near now.

not to mention saturdays, which are always busy cos of piano lessons + church fellowship.
really hope i don't fall sick amidst all this.

anyway, life's been good so far. even though there've been more stuff to do. finally met up with beloved zhen!!!! the meet-once-a-year friend cos she studies in US. knew her in NJ, and she was the one who asked me to start a cell group with her in our class, trying to bring our classmates to christ. (we didn't achieve any significant result tho. but we tried). the short 2 hour lunch just wasn't enough. but between both of us, there wasn't any other better slot to meet alr. it's better than nth! it was good to hear abt each other's lives, and to share with each other both our joy and struggles, in the different ways that we're serving. :D (forgive the blackened face haha.)


went to this jap restaurant in Central. Forgot the name, but it's in some ulu corner at level 2. apparently it serves really authentic ramen - a lot of japanese pple were eating there. and the other restaurants around it were more or less empty. hahs. the restaurant has a fantastic view of clarke quay too. but the ramen was a lil overpriced though. spent 14.10 on this, including the ++

in the week i've also had dinner with my DG girls. good to see them all well and enjoying their summer hols. :D but i must say that i haven't been a very good shepherd this summer hols. nehmind make up for it when sem starts!

and then there was teppenyaki at home with family plus my aunts and cousins. there were abt 12 of us in all. but the amt of noise we made was ehhhhh. more like for 20 pple. my da sao, who is seldom around when my maternal relatives get tgt, had this constipated/confused look. i think she was almost gg deaf alrd. haha. it's a family joke that we're loud. yes me and my cousins included. but we're the much milder version. oh not to mention harry potter w pear, ting en and kai. :D i thought the movie was good, though a lot of other pple don't think so. but well, we had good dinner and wasted time gramophone-ing. haha.

God is good, all the time :D

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the slacking days

are almost over!

sigh. i only have about a month more before school starts. sigh. and i think this might be my last long holiday before i start working. sounds so old! but next summer i'll have to intern alrd. or else i won't ever graduate. oh well. i shall be thankful that i at least have this holiday to rest and slack.

there's crusade camp, and then ocip, and then school will start! sigh. i can foresee the gpa dropping from now on. cos the mods are more shiong than those in yr 1 and 2. can't believe i'm a yr 3 now. so old! everytime i transit from a yr x to a yr x+1, i feel like i've gotten alot older.

I'm really enjoying my holidays now. :D i get to slack and do nth. how great is that! i love being a student.

i got a haircut, and was talking to my mother about it.
her: 我是不会跟你剪这样的lor. 我们以前是要剪整齐的。这样一边长一边短(the fringe)是buay pass 的lor. 如果你叫我跟你剪这样的发型我剪不下去。剪到这样难看，对不起自己。

haha it sounds bad right. but she didn't say it harshly. in fact we were laughing over it. maybe that's why i'm so blunt in my words. cos my mother's the same. :D

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早不坏吃不坏

偏偏昨天坏。

my phone's been ill for quite some time now. the first symptom was when the alarm wouldn't snooze. when i pressed snooze, it just doesn't ring again! (i tested it when i was awake, to make sure ok). and then, the phone doesn't show my missed calls. meaning, i've to go to the call log to check if there've been any missed calls. and when there're messages, it only shows an icon, but not the pop up that tells me i've got a message from so and so. then recently fang said her messages to me couldn't get through. all these i could tolerate. until yesterday.

my phone just auto off-ed! and it took a super long time to load when i switched it on again. so in essence, the phone just didn't work for abt a whole hour or so. the thing is, i was supposed to meet my cousin's tailor to take measurements (i'm her jie mei for her wedding in sept). all i knew was to meet the tailor in wisma, but not which part of wisma. so there i was, starting to panic cos i had no way of reaching the tailor/my cousin. in the end, i used the public phone to call home for my cousin's number, then called my cousin from the same phone for the tailor's number, and finally called the tailor.

and about an hour later, when i got home, my phone miraculously revived. but i figured i didn't want to risk it a second time, so today i brought my phone to the clinic. the nokia service centre. i'll be uncontactable for about a week. if any kind soul reading this has an extra phone to lend me and will see me during the weekend (meaning church pple alr la). please tag and let me know can? much appreciated!

back to the tailor. this is the first time i'm buying something tailor made. but that's cos i was left with no other choice. my cousin wanted all of us to wear the same fabric in the same colours, and requested for us to have the dresses made by the same tailor. which explains why i'm spending hundred over dollars on a dress that i will never wear again. sigh. perhaps, maybe, if i remain the same size, i might wear it again when i'm asked to be jie mei again? but then again, i doubt so. not every bride wants the jie mei to wear such 隆重dress..

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sigh

bidding is such a chore -.-

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change

is good. in this case, i think my parents + bro shifting church was good.

now, another abt 4 couples from my bro's 小组 are at my place. they just came back from dinner, and are eating durians at the dining table. they're a really happy lot, laughs super loudly. and there're like 5 children altogether running about in my living room now too. kids of my bro's friends, Shermaine's church mates.

it's a really heartening sight. and at the same time, I am greatful that my parents had thought of my bro's growth and shifted church so that my bro n his wife will have a proper fellowship. i think my parents are very self sacrificing and self giving parents.

after all, we're all still one body in christ. my father still constantly gives one of his subtly-persuading-me-to-join-them talk, abt how nice it'll be if we were all in the same church, hoping i'll change my mind and go join their church instead too. but, as happy as i am for their shift and for the fellowship that my bro's now in, i'm equally, if not more, happy for the valuable relationships i have in okyaya. as much as i'm sure that their decision to shift was a good one, i'm equally sure that my decision to stay was good too, hard though it was. it wasn't easy saying no to them, but i did, and I thank God for having brought our family through. now, to hold on to the hope that my 大哥will someday return to the body of christ too.

:)

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漂亮的午餐

我妈妈今天心血来潮, 用了二嫂的心形模型来煎鸡蛋 :)

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