A Sunday Evening

Today is Sunday.
I went to church at noon time and came back home after fellowship.
I reached home at about 6pm.
Mum was asleep and so our family did not dine together at the Zi Char stall downstairs.
After keying in the Attn, I started to facebook!
Ever since my Blackberry broke down (on Saturday), I cannot access to fb or emails instantly anymore!
At first I was truly not used to it. However, this gave me time to do self-reflection and pray at home. So it is still good that our electronic gadgets break down at times so that we can have ample time to pray, read the bible, which so often we neglect due to things like handphone, SMS-es, emails, facebook, etc which steal all our attention away.
Talked to a good friend via facebook today. Realised that a simple conversation can really make my day!! Even though it was just an exchange of sentences, I felt really happy that someone talked to me and entered my world. LOL. Thanks Yan Ming! :D
Felt refreshed by the presence of God in service today. The Word was fantastic too!
Tomorrow is gonna be a start of a brand new week.
I pray I will have wisdom, favour and confidence in my workplace!!
I pray I will throw all the baggages of my life to God so that I can RUN THE RACE with ease!
THANK YOU JESUS for making life so beautiful and worth living!! I love you =D

Dear Blog

Dear Blog,

I kinda miss you! haha.

Had a great dinner with a friend yesterday, and I commended that I really enjoyed some of her blog entries.

She is a person really down-to-earth, and is true to herself while blogging. No wonder I can relate to some of the entries she writes, as she is good at describing some scenes & moments and make them "come alive".

This friend of mine is very intelligent, and has an inquisitive mind.

I enjoyed the conversation, and hope to have more of such quality time spent like these in future.

I am really thankful a classmate of mine brought me to CHC when I was 17 years old. Because of church, my whole life has changed for the better. I have friends whom I can call family. I have leaders in church who can give me wise counsel from the Bible whenever I am at a loss of what to do. I have role models to look up to. I become more positive. There is much laughter at my home now, and my relationships with my dad, mum, sis & bro improved a lot.

Thank God for church, for City Harvest, for Pastor Kong, Sun and other church leaders as well.
I am thankful. Thank you Jesus always for your grace & mercy upon my life. I love YOU! :D

Work/Life Balance

I am on leave today & tomorrow. Feels soo gd to have personal time to spend after having worked continuously for so long. Working life is standard - 9am to 6pm everyday and sometimes you just have so little time to do the things that you enjoy, as I will end work past 7pm sometimes.. I love weekends, where I can simply stay at home and do nothing :)

I hope to be more active on facebook as my facebook homepage is soo boring!! haha. Need to fill it up with updates so that everytime it is not just "I commented on so & so's status or likes so & so's status" but really have something to talk about.. hahaha. How I wish I can update my status everyday!! :D Be it the good things or not, just update my statuses.. how fun will it be..

Anyways, I recently became a CGL - praise God and thank God for that!! My CG consist of people around the same age as me, some are older than me. They are very fun people, I hope to fellowship with them more often.. Truly the kingdom of God is a kingdom of relationships.. I pray that I can get to know them better, and pray that God will guide me & lead me to be a good leader. I also pray that I can have a shepherd's heart, and rely on my "shepherd's instinct" to do ministry.. HAHA..

Thank you Jesus for everything.. Tuesday Leaders' Meeting was really uplifting! Church is always a place of refuge where I can run to whenever I am stressed, in both good times & bad times. I felt so blessed after the meeting, and kept singing songs in Derrick's car.. THANK YOU DERRICK & RUXIN for always driving me home on Tuesday nights if mtgs end late at Jurong West :D Derrick & Ruxin are really very generous & awesome senior leaders... Thank you so much for sowing into my life... May God bless you super-abundantly back!! :D

Recent Updates

Had an awesome family day last Sunday (4 Apr 10)!!
My whole family went to pay our respects to my granddad & grandma who passed away a number of years ago. We sat in dad's cab all day long.
My dad is a taxi driver who drives the night shift. I love the smell of his car.
Thereafter we went to tour one round around the new casino at Sentosa.. Just to take a look.. Haha. I love the long car journeys throughout the day as I felt like I am a daddy's girl once again! haha. Cools. Thank God for great family time together.
A colleague who is around the same age as me got married last year. She misses her dad & mum a lot and tells me that you'll really miss your parents after you get married, so better treasure them now.. Mummy & daddy, I LOVE YOU!!! :D I hope to communicate more with daddy this year.. :D
I am very proud of my CG cuz they are people full of love & care. They are extremely generous too. The act of being there to encourage one another simply touches me!! I hope to be more communicative & speak kinder words to people everywhere I go. I also wanna SMILE MORE because Sun once says that the love that one gives away will never disappear, it will simply be deposited in another person's heart. So it doesn't hurt to smile/laugh more often!!
O Jesus, help me to be a more like You this year! :D

Lessons Learnt

Last Friday, I shared a testimony of how the Lord rescued me and opened an alternative door for me when I did not do well in a particular module in NUS the last semester.

This testimony was long overdue. Supposed to share it before I graduated last May in 2009. However, I only decided to share it today because I thought we were having a University CG meeting, so sharing something related to studies and uni would be great. At first I was hesitant, because it did not sound glamorous at all.

However, after sharing the testimony, I felt that the people really thanked God and praised Him. Because the testimony really showed how GREAT and GOOD God is, and I really have NOTHING to boast about myself.

Thereafter, I heard Him telling me in a still small voice, that, truly it is not the big things that would wow people. It is the things that are deemed insignificant in people's eyes, that would bring glory to His name. This reminds me of a bible verse that God would often use the simple to shame the wise, in 1 Corinthians 1: 27-29:

But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. [28] He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things — and the things that are not — to nullify the things that are, [29] so that no one may boast before him.

Hence, next time whenever I share a testimony, I pray that it will be always about how AWESOME Jesus is, and it is because of his GREATNESS, GOODNESS, MERCY and GRACE that I can share a testimony. It is NOT about how great I am, or what I have done to deserve something. Thank you JESUS. I do not want to have anything that I can boast of myself. Bring me to a place where I can acknowledge ALL your GOODNESS and GREATNESS, MERCY & GRACE in my life, that without YOU, I will be nothing. THANK U LORD.

CK Family

I am very thankful to be part of the CK Family.

I really am. I am really blessed. So blessed that I can't contain it that I gotta give it away!!

Thank you Kee Liang, thank you Pastor, thank you every one in the CK zone who has made the whole family so CK.. hehe..

Like what Hui Juan said on Facebook, that she will never trade anything for the CHC experience.. I totally agree, and I pray I will not trade anything for the church and CK experience as well.....

Being part of a family is truly life's greatest blessing. Besides my natural family, I am glad someone took me in to be part of the CK family.. To have great leaders who are always so passionate about Christ and for His house. To constantly fight at the forefront for the better of the lives of many people in our church, and our zone.

Thank you Pastor CK, Kee Liang, and CK Zone. I am very proud to be part of this family :)

My Very Good Friend Is Attached! :D

Congratulations Darice!! :D

Am so happy for her when I saw her photos with Ben on facebook!! They look so compatible!! Really! haha.

Darice & Ben, may 2010 be the best year yet for the both of you!! :D

Darice was the helper who took care of me as a young Christian when I first came to City Harvest Church. I remembered that time I was in JC2, and was really bad at Math. I did not like Math at all because I was inconsistent in doing my tutorials, and did not really figured out what the lecturer was saying during class.

However, I remembered one phone call I had with Miss Darice on a Saturday morning that changed my perspective about Math, and realised that it is actually an interesting subject that made sense!!

Darice taught me about Functions in a one-hour long phone call during which I was still lying on my bed. And there and then she described to me the different graphs of f(x), etc etc and why they were drawn in those manner.

In a simple phone call, I realised that she was a great teacher and had tremendous patience. I was touched indeed.

There were days when I could call Darice and just chat about things. And we would talk about Jesus and about our futures till late at night. Looking back, I really miss those days. Darice is a person who is so full of love, and every time when I talk to her, I would feel very at ease.

Thank you Darice for making a great impact in my life. As I looked through your blog just now, memories of yesteryear began to fill my mind!! :)

Jesus has already fulfilled your wish about having a boyfriend who loves God and loves CHC wholeheartedly, so you can remove that item on your wishlist now!! :D

Looking forward to the day when you two will be blissfully married :D

GOD BLESS BEN & DARICE :D