Joy today is joy in christian fellowship, of knowing that love empowers and surrounds.
Let us all thank our Father in Heaven, for HE is love. I'm truly grateful for having such a wonderful experience at today's amazing race despite the heavy downpour, aching feet, a million dead braincells, for I have gained in more ways than one and felt the love HE has placed in my life. By the greatness of HIS love, I have been blessed with amazing fellowship. HE brought us all together today in this challenge to come together in celebration of our sister and brotherhood in Christ, that we may lean on his word and empower each other in fellowship. To HIM be the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.
I'm still smiling..are you?
Saturday, 31 May 2008
Thursday, 29 May 2008
Joy is a revelation yet again..
We always ask why life is so complicated with so mnay complexities. But what we don't see is that we are the ones complicating it. We analyse it. Don't analyse. JUST LIVE IT! Always count your blessings and not your sufferings.
We always seem constantly unhappy because we see only the negative things in life. Your today is the tomorrow that you worried about yesterday. You worry because you analyse. This worry then becomes a part of you. Uncertainty is inevitable but worry is optional. Uncertainty brings pain. Pain is inevitable but suffering is optional. You ask. Why do we suffer? Just as diamonds cannot be polished without friction and gold cannot be purified without fire, we go through trials as periods of strengthening. Experience is like a teacher who sets the test before teaching the lesson so we will always remember if we've had a failure and learn from it. Problems are Purposeful Roadblocks Offering Beneficial Lessons to Enhance Mental Strength. Inner strength comes from struggle and endurance, not when you are free from problems. Success is a measure as decided by others. Satisfaction is a measure as decided by you. Knowing the road ahead is more satisfying than knowing you rode ahead.
In the midst of so many problems, we don't know where we are heading. But if we look outside we will not know where you are heading. Instead, look inside. Looking outside, you dream. Looking inside, you awaken. Eyes provide sight. Heart provides insight.
Have faith in yourself and drop the fear. Don't believe your doubts and doubt your beliefs. Life is a mystery to solve not a problem to resolve. Trust me. Life is wonderful once you learn to live. Get the best out of life. Face your past without regret. Handle your present with confidence. Prepare for the future without fear.
We always ask why life is so complicated with so mnay complexities. But what we don't see is that we are the ones complicating it. We analyse it. Don't analyse. JUST LIVE IT! Always count your blessings and not your sufferings.
We always seem constantly unhappy because we see only the negative things in life. Your today is the tomorrow that you worried about yesterday. You worry because you analyse. This worry then becomes a part of you. Uncertainty is inevitable but worry is optional. Uncertainty brings pain. Pain is inevitable but suffering is optional. You ask. Why do we suffer? Just as diamonds cannot be polished without friction and gold cannot be purified without fire, we go through trials as periods of strengthening. Experience is like a teacher who sets the test before teaching the lesson so we will always remember if we've had a failure and learn from it. Problems are Purposeful Roadblocks Offering Beneficial Lessons to Enhance Mental Strength. Inner strength comes from struggle and endurance, not when you are free from problems. Success is a measure as decided by others. Satisfaction is a measure as decided by you. Knowing the road ahead is more satisfying than knowing you rode ahead.
In the midst of so many problems, we don't know where we are heading. But if we look outside we will not know where you are heading. Instead, look inside. Looking outside, you dream. Looking inside, you awaken. Eyes provide sight. Heart provides insight.
Have faith in yourself and drop the fear. Don't believe your doubts and doubt your beliefs. Life is a mystery to solve not a problem to resolve. Trust me. Life is wonderful once you learn to live. Get the best out of life. Face your past without regret. Handle your present with confidence. Prepare for the future without fear.
Sunday, 25 May 2008
This conversation snippet is an absolute classic that will make me laugh for years to come
but it probably makes sense only to me and HZ:
HZ: But my place not safe at night. How you go home?
Me: Take cab lo.
HZ: Arh? Then how you walk in from main road?
Me: *laughing uproariously* err..take cab leh. Isn't the point of takin cab to reach my doorstep and save the walking?
HZ trying to save herself but digging herself deeper..
HZ: Maybe Jln Haji Alias is too narrow then the cab too big to squeeze through?
Me: *thinking: isn't the cab a creation to access small roads?*
Man, I love HZ, every moment w her is a classic.
More classics:
HZ: I'm searching for Evens road, how come mt everest pops up?
HZ: I found a map. I found a map. I found a map! Eh? Dunearn road got so long meh? K I've no idea how to use the map. I seriously think I should learn Geog.
Me: Dear, Geog doesn teach you maps and roads of singapore.
HZ: It does! It doesn't meh? Right???
HZ: Ok I entered the search. Here is the result: Blank box..
30secs later..wow I searched again and its still a blank box!
HZ:I typed in clementi west st 1. Pops up clementi west st 2 and jurong west st 41
but it probably makes sense only to me and HZ:
HZ: But my place not safe at night. How you go home?
Me: Take cab lo.
HZ: Arh? Then how you walk in from main road?
Me: *laughing uproariously* err..take cab leh. Isn't the point of takin cab to reach my doorstep and save the walking?
HZ trying to save herself but digging herself deeper..
HZ: Maybe Jln Haji Alias is too narrow then the cab too big to squeeze through?
Me: *thinking: isn't the cab a creation to access small roads?*
Man, I love HZ, every moment w her is a classic.
More classics:
HZ: I'm searching for Evens road, how come mt everest pops up?
HZ: I found a map. I found a map. I found a map! Eh? Dunearn road got so long meh? K I've no idea how to use the map. I seriously think I should learn Geog.
Me: Dear, Geog doesn teach you maps and roads of singapore.
HZ: It does! It doesn't meh? Right???
HZ: Ok I entered the search. Here is the result: Blank box..
30secs later..wow I searched again and its still a blank box!
HZ:I typed in clementi west st 1. Pops up clementi west st 2 and jurong west st 41
Sunday, 11 May 2008
Joy yesterday is joy of rebirth again in HIS amazing grace, spiritual empowerment and a joy that dwells inside from knowing of HIS promise. Joy of declaring my love for HIM, a joy of learning of HIS great love and to hear my FATHER's word.
Joy yesterday is also of great girl company, both comfortingly familiar and refreshingly new. Thanks to my sweeties for planning a girls day for me, it was a good breather that's for sure. It was a fabulous and fun night of incessant laughter and joyful smiles, decadent food and dessert indulgence and non stop camera flashes. I know I can always count on you girls to make me radiate a smile from within. Somehow when we're together, I'm carefree like a child again. and distance doesn't seem to matter when we're together because even the long walk seemed short(but I still want that boat trip sometime!) It's heartwarming to share the joy of sisterhood in HIS kingdom, to relish the quality time we share and to know he placed us side by side for a reason. I love you girls with all my heart, a heart surrendered into HIS hands.
Joy yesterday is also of great girl company, both comfortingly familiar and refreshingly new. Thanks to my sweeties for planning a girls day for me, it was a good breather that's for sure. It was a fabulous and fun night of incessant laughter and joyful smiles, decadent food and dessert indulgence and non stop camera flashes. I know I can always count on you girls to make me radiate a smile from within. Somehow when we're together, I'm carefree like a child again. and distance doesn't seem to matter when we're together because even the long walk seemed short(but I still want that boat trip sometime!) It's heartwarming to share the joy of sisterhood in HIS kingdom, to relish the quality time we share and to know he placed us side by side for a reason. I love you girls with all my heart, a heart surrendered into HIS hands.
Friday, 9 May 2008
This one's dedicated to a friend...
No one can say you don't deserve happiness so why should you doubt the happiness you deserve? Happiness is not a complexity but is in fact attainably simple. The situations that get us down in life often make us feel like it's far out of our reach but if we look beyond, there it is right there in our life. Happiness is simple, its presence is unwavering, but if you never open the door when it knocks, you'll never feel its power.
It's not as hard as it seems. Sometimes it doesn't take that much to make another's happiness. For all you know, you've already made them happy. A silly goofball once told me that one is never undeserving of love because when a person chooses to love you, they've chosen to believe that you can make them happy and if you love them back, you've already made them happy.
Happiness is already at your door, you just have to open it!
No one can say you don't deserve happiness so why should you doubt the happiness you deserve? Happiness is not a complexity but is in fact attainably simple. The situations that get us down in life often make us feel like it's far out of our reach but if we look beyond, there it is right there in our life. Happiness is simple, its presence is unwavering, but if you never open the door when it knocks, you'll never feel its power.
It's not as hard as it seems. Sometimes it doesn't take that much to make another's happiness. For all you know, you've already made them happy. A silly goofball once told me that one is never undeserving of love because when a person chooses to love you, they've chosen to believe that you can make them happy and if you love them back, you've already made them happy.
Happiness is already at your door, you just have to open it!
Wednesday, 7 May 2008
Joy is one paper down! And the paper going reasonably fine.
Even greater joy is Sam staying up his side to accompany me till I left for the exam. Though his jokes over skype were ridiculously lame, they turned the butterflies in my tummy to stitches in my side. Then after I told him about a friend's destress suggestion which is to visualise happy thoughts, that silly goofball proceeded to recite a list of happy thoughts I should visualise that included some very embarassing but terribly funny past memories we shared. Some were so hilarious I couldn stop laughing and though I completely failed to concentrate on visualising, all that laughing worked wonderfully to toss whatever else negative emotion I was feeling out the window. I couldn quite get those funny thoughts out of my head and I couldn stop smiling even up till i entered the exam hall.
Sam! For the past 6 years, you've created many smiles on my face but none as special as today's. Thanks to you I was one happy exam candidate. I'm sure that helped a lot. Misses from SG girl.
Even greater joy is Sam staying up his side to accompany me till I left for the exam. Though his jokes over skype were ridiculously lame, they turned the butterflies in my tummy to stitches in my side. Then after I told him about a friend's destress suggestion which is to visualise happy thoughts, that silly goofball proceeded to recite a list of happy thoughts I should visualise that included some very embarassing but terribly funny past memories we shared. Some were so hilarious I couldn stop laughing and though I completely failed to concentrate on visualising, all that laughing worked wonderfully to toss whatever else negative emotion I was feeling out the window. I couldn quite get those funny thoughts out of my head and I couldn stop smiling even up till i entered the exam hall.
Sam! For the past 6 years, you've created many smiles on my face but none as special as today's. Thanks to you I was one happy exam candidate. I'm sure that helped a lot. Misses from SG girl.
Saturday, 3 May 2008
I could say last night was excruciatingly painful. Woke up in a cold sweat and a quick glance at my phone told me it was 2am. My abdomen hurt like hell, I felt my insides churning like a laundromat. Went to mum's room to get medicated oil to apply, and then the throwing up started. I must have spent my whole night with my head over the toilet since the sky went from dark to light without me even noticing. I'm feeling so much better now and my abdomen no longer feels like its about to split.
Despite the terrible night though, I feel loved. All through the torment, and in all my unglamness, I had goofball's company over the speaker phone. I could barely talk but i listened to him crack jokes attempting to cheer me up. When that didn't quite work, he decided to sing me lullabies and I wasn't sure how to react. On one hand I wanted to laugh at his silliness yet on the other hand I couldn't laugh out loud. All through my throwing up, he kept asking me if I felt better. Though I was white like a sheet and squirming in pain, his presence made it tolerable. It's moments like these where I feel loved and these I'll always remember. Sam may not be my dream lover, yet he's there when it counts and for that, I'm truly grateful.
I love how things are with us now, cause every little thing we do means much more and at least we know it's not out of obligation. I love you cause I want to. And right here and right now, I'm missing you from 209379266258940986130038645567043866424659796585 miles away, you silly goofball.
Despite the terrible night though, I feel loved. All through the torment, and in all my unglamness, I had goofball's company over the speaker phone. I could barely talk but i listened to him crack jokes attempting to cheer me up. When that didn't quite work, he decided to sing me lullabies and I wasn't sure how to react. On one hand I wanted to laugh at his silliness yet on the other hand I couldn't laugh out loud. All through my throwing up, he kept asking me if I felt better. Though I was white like a sheet and squirming in pain, his presence made it tolerable. It's moments like these where I feel loved and these I'll always remember. Sam may not be my dream lover, yet he's there when it counts and for that, I'm truly grateful.
I love how things are with us now, cause every little thing we do means much more and at least we know it's not out of obligation. I love you cause I want to. And right here and right now, I'm missing you from 209379266258940986130038645567043866424659796585 miles away, you silly goofball.
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