Pray for me....
... because i'm scared... eeks!
big big boss is pushing for vietnam to go live with system... but vietnam is slow in delivering what i need..
i'm going to vietnam next wednesday, coming back on friday. pray that i'll get everything i need done. i'll be going alone. pray for wisdom to know how to settle issues that're raised and to finish up everything.
this is the big break for me. it's make or break. if break, that's it... there goes many other opportunities for me.
it's all in the hands of the Lord.
jeremiah 29:11
big big boss is pushing for vietnam to go live with system... but vietnam is slow in delivering what i need..
i'm going to vietnam next wednesday, coming back on friday. pray that i'll get everything i need done. i'll be going alone. pray for wisdom to know how to settle issues that're raised and to finish up everything.
this is the big break for me. it's make or break. if break, that's it... there goes many other opportunities for me.
it's all in the hands of the Lord.
jeremiah 29:11
{ Friday, August 31 }
Retail Therapy.
i can't believe it... many times friends tell me abt retail therapy but i've never believed it. coz i always thought to myself, how can anyone be happy spending so much money?? cash can always be put to much better use. but yesterday, i was proven wrong... by myself!
felt pretty down yesterday at work... and i've already set aside yesterday after work to spend some time walking around in tampines mall. haven't been there much since i moved out of the area a year ago... and it was a much anticipated break after weeks and weeks of madness activities after work. besides, i needed to get some stuff from the supermarket and go the to christian bookstore to get some gifts. and i thought to myself, since i had some time after buying the gifts, i can go and look for a white top. i needed one anyway..
so i strolled around and ended up in this shop... and my, did i go crazy. i go crazy when i find things that fit me... and the craziness adds up when it is within budget... and one more reason to remain crazy was that there was the sale... and yet another reason was that it wasn't crowded so you can go into the fitting rooms as many times you like! what a perfect shopping experience.
after i walked out of the shop happily with my purchases, i went on to buy some t-shirts for hub. buy-1-get-1-free... and it had his size and the colours that i wanted to get for him.
then finally i was at the supermarket to get the essentials and headed off for home.. satisfied and pleased..
pleased not really abt the things that i bought but the pleasant experience at the shop... no one to bug me.. got all the sizes i want.. sale.. fitting room.. i just gotta repeat that. how many times can shopping be so pleasurable?
felt pretty down yesterday at work... and i've already set aside yesterday after work to spend some time walking around in tampines mall. haven't been there much since i moved out of the area a year ago... and it was a much anticipated break after weeks and weeks of madness activities after work. besides, i needed to get some stuff from the supermarket and go the to christian bookstore to get some gifts. and i thought to myself, since i had some time after buying the gifts, i can go and look for a white top. i needed one anyway..
so i strolled around and ended up in this shop... and my, did i go crazy. i go crazy when i find things that fit me... and the craziness adds up when it is within budget... and one more reason to remain crazy was that there was the sale... and yet another reason was that it wasn't crowded so you can go into the fitting rooms as many times you like! what a perfect shopping experience.
after i walked out of the shop happily with my purchases, i went on to buy some t-shirts for hub. buy-1-get-1-free... and it had his size and the colours that i wanted to get for him.
then finally i was at the supermarket to get the essentials and headed off for home.. satisfied and pleased..
pleased not really abt the things that i bought but the pleasant experience at the shop... no one to bug me.. got all the sizes i want.. sale.. fitting room.. i just gotta repeat that. how many times can shopping be so pleasurable?
{ Thursday, August 30 }
Yadda Yadda.
hello! here's me rattling away again... since my last post, life has been rather packed and fulfilling.
jr tribe was down for choir and i signed up to serve on the last two weeks of august. my, it was fun. furthermore, the last two weeks of august were rather significant weekends. 19th was miracle weekend and 26th was GCYC closing weekend. it was such a priviledge to be serving during these two weekends, where i see myself seeking to perfect the actions and lyrics of songs. because this was a tribe effort, of course i also got to know people from other cell groups. all in all i enjoyed myself tremedously. two weeks of commitment was just nice as well.. if i took on all 4 weeks, i think it'd be too much for my aging body... hahaha! gotta admit that i'm getting old.
then there was GCYC which stands for gateway cities youth convention. yes yes, so many acronymns and that's so typical singapore language culture. everyone uses it and certain terms uses the same acronymns and everyone gets confused! haha. oh well.. i guess we use acronymns to ease up characters on sms. haha.
anyways, GCYC was ok... last year's GCYC was so much better and not to mention touching as well. though this year's also has its touching moments. i was really excited abt vietnam this yr because i go there almost every month to visit my office there. last yr, only 2 representatives from vietnam came. this yr, there were 24! wow! what a great work God is doing in that nation.
vietnam is a beautiful nation.. with very beautiful people. beautiful not simply externally but internally. and one of my prayer for them is that this inner beauty and morals will be preserved as the nation is opening up and being exposed to so many other cultures and people from different backgrounds.
i got an email address of one of the delegates. hopefully i will get to keep in touch with them. was too tired during the convention to actually hang out with them all. sigh...
i've been blessed richly by sermons lately. i enjoy it when we do character study. coz we can see that Godly character being shone in real life, in motion. and i enjoy teaching it to my kids at GKidz. it is fun to teach because you can draw parallels from your own life and their lives and the lives of people all around. when learning is relevant, learning is real.
this week's gonna be quite a breeze. busy at work but thankfully relaxin' after. gonna be meeting one of my sec sch friends this wk... looking back, we've been friends for more than 10yrs! so nostalgic.
that's all i have on my mind to rattle on. more news soon... watch this space.
jr tribe was down for choir and i signed up to serve on the last two weeks of august. my, it was fun. furthermore, the last two weeks of august were rather significant weekends. 19th was miracle weekend and 26th was GCYC closing weekend. it was such a priviledge to be serving during these two weekends, where i see myself seeking to perfect the actions and lyrics of songs. because this was a tribe effort, of course i also got to know people from other cell groups. all in all i enjoyed myself tremedously. two weeks of commitment was just nice as well.. if i took on all 4 weeks, i think it'd be too much for my aging body... hahaha! gotta admit that i'm getting old.
then there was GCYC which stands for gateway cities youth convention. yes yes, so many acronymns and that's so typical singapore language culture. everyone uses it and certain terms uses the same acronymns and everyone gets confused! haha. oh well.. i guess we use acronymns to ease up characters on sms. haha.
anyways, GCYC was ok... last year's GCYC was so much better and not to mention touching as well. though this year's also has its touching moments. i was really excited abt vietnam this yr because i go there almost every month to visit my office there. last yr, only 2 representatives from vietnam came. this yr, there were 24! wow! what a great work God is doing in that nation.
vietnam is a beautiful nation.. with very beautiful people. beautiful not simply externally but internally. and one of my prayer for them is that this inner beauty and morals will be preserved as the nation is opening up and being exposed to so many other cultures and people from different backgrounds.
i got an email address of one of the delegates. hopefully i will get to keep in touch with them. was too tired during the convention to actually hang out with them all. sigh...
i've been blessed richly by sermons lately. i enjoy it when we do character study. coz we can see that Godly character being shone in real life, in motion. and i enjoy teaching it to my kids at GKidz. it is fun to teach because you can draw parallels from your own life and their lives and the lives of people all around. when learning is relevant, learning is real.
this week's gonna be quite a breeze. busy at work but thankfully relaxin' after. gonna be meeting one of my sec sch friends this wk... looking back, we've been friends for more than 10yrs! so nostalgic.
that's all i have on my mind to rattle on. more news soon... watch this space.
{ Monday, August 27 }
100k Blessings.
hey check it out. we've blessed 108835 people in one month! amazing ain't it? and on one of the days in that one month, a few friends and i went out to bless people on the streets. i was amazed how receptive people were and once again am faced with hungry looks from people's faces. hungry not in terms of greedy.. but you could see their faces light up with hope.. to know that after they filled in the leaflet of the blessings that they want that there're people who'll be committed to pray for them. think this really speaks of God's love and God's desire for His people. God really desires to bless and all the more people who do not know Him.
all in all i think that i am also blessed as i bless others.. indeed it is more blessed to give than to receive. God was using this season to let me understand that the world needs love and opening my eyes to see the needs of people around me. listening to the testimonies also reminded me again how good our God is and that He is able.
that's all for now.. wish i can write more but i really need to get going.. might MIA for a while because of the load from work... sigh... was in my tuas office yesterday and got a ride back to the east from the big boss.. and was just loaded with a lot of things to do.. and as he shared abt expansion plans and future offices, i feel stressed out already. haha. oh well... i'm glad there's work to do and the company is doing well. that means better increments and bonuses. wahaha! anyway, see y'all.
{ Wednesday, August 15 }
I'm feeling patriotic.
i'm so tired out again... sigh... this is one of the worst states i can ever be. to read words on a screen or in the papers and start to feel giddy. to type my username and password, into blogger wrongly.
why am i so tired? that's a question i want an answer for myself too... late nights are the culprit i guess. preparing things and talking to hubby... you see, he's in for reservist today and will be away for 3 weeks.
well, it's better than the last time where he had to go to australia for training. at least this time i can still text him, call him and see him during the weekends. strange feelings i'm having... i feel proud that guys in this country serve in the army. call me brainwashed but i really feel that being able to serve is good and is a priviledge. yeah, you can call me a simple-minded girl who has not seen what it's like in there at all. sometimes i feel sad when people don't feel proud of singapore or serving singapore at all. yeah, you can call this national day patriotism.
in any case, though this country is not perfect and the government is not perfect either, things are going well for us. and it had been going well for us for the last 40yrs. whether this will continue is not material. what is is that if it doesn't would you stay or would you go? if you go or if your mindset is one set of leaving, then you won't really care whether we make it or not. it's like the temporal and permanence minset i wrote abt a few posts ago.
i feel proud to be a singaporean. a country so small but yet so well-known around the world. i recall a dinner with some friends and this friend shared that he was once stopped in russia while running for a train and the police demanded to see his passport. when the russian police saw that it was a singaporean passport, they immediately let them go catch their train. we wouldn't have gotten here today without our leaders.
yesterday, some of us went out to eastpoint to bless the people there, part of the 100k challenge. and this thing coincides so nicely with national day and us wanting to bless the nation. the beauty of this is that it's absolutely free. yes, free blessings. and what pains my heart is that most people thought we were out for money or out for their souls. since starting this campaign, my heart has been blessed. when i spoke with some old folks reading their papers and you could see their eyes light up when you tell them that you wanna bless them, and you wanna keep them in prayer. seeing hope glimmer in their eyes and their faces responding with thankfulness and letting them know that there're people out there who bothers really touches my heart.
i could feel myself partnering the church and partnering our nation, just like what my hubby is doing now, to bring blessing to Singapore. and through this i give thanks that God is truly using us to be His hands and His feet to the people here.
"Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God." Romans 13:1 (NIV)
since God has chosen our leaders and appointed them, God will also watch over those who obey them. because i believe God is good, i know that this country is also in good hands.
God bless Singapore. happy national day y'all.
why am i so tired? that's a question i want an answer for myself too... late nights are the culprit i guess. preparing things and talking to hubby... you see, he's in for reservist today and will be away for 3 weeks.
well, it's better than the last time where he had to go to australia for training. at least this time i can still text him, call him and see him during the weekends. strange feelings i'm having... i feel proud that guys in this country serve in the army. call me brainwashed but i really feel that being able to serve is good and is a priviledge. yeah, you can call me a simple-minded girl who has not seen what it's like in there at all. sometimes i feel sad when people don't feel proud of singapore or serving singapore at all. yeah, you can call this national day patriotism.
in any case, though this country is not perfect and the government is not perfect either, things are going well for us. and it had been going well for us for the last 40yrs. whether this will continue is not material. what is is that if it doesn't would you stay or would you go? if you go or if your mindset is one set of leaving, then you won't really care whether we make it or not. it's like the temporal and permanence minset i wrote abt a few posts ago.
i feel proud to be a singaporean. a country so small but yet so well-known around the world. i recall a dinner with some friends and this friend shared that he was once stopped in russia while running for a train and the police demanded to see his passport. when the russian police saw that it was a singaporean passport, they immediately let them go catch their train. we wouldn't have gotten here today without our leaders.
yesterday, some of us went out to eastpoint to bless the people there, part of the 100k challenge. and this thing coincides so nicely with national day and us wanting to bless the nation. the beauty of this is that it's absolutely free. yes, free blessings. and what pains my heart is that most people thought we were out for money or out for their souls. since starting this campaign, my heart has been blessed. when i spoke with some old folks reading their papers and you could see their eyes light up when you tell them that you wanna bless them, and you wanna keep them in prayer. seeing hope glimmer in their eyes and their faces responding with thankfulness and letting them know that there're people out there who bothers really touches my heart.
i could feel myself partnering the church and partnering our nation, just like what my hubby is doing now, to bring blessing to Singapore. and through this i give thanks that God is truly using us to be His hands and His feet to the people here.
"Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God." Romans 13:1 (NIV)
since God has chosen our leaders and appointed them, God will also watch over those who obey them. because i believe God is good, i know that this country is also in good hands.
God bless Singapore. happy national day y'all.
{ Monday, August 6 }