Yo guys,

have been really bz lately so i have not been goin to the chinese congri... Well thats life i guess... i do have some prayer request... i have invited 4 of my friends to the Tony Anthony session, pls pray for their responses, well thats is and back to my bz life again... btw does anyone noe how to post songs, i have both songs mention previously... pls post a set of instructions... thanks


ben

Harroe~~ x)

Ello~ =)

I'm sure very few of u will recognise my blogging name =D anyway wansin here... i haven't seen everyone in quite a while... been caught up at home of late... so i just wanted to pop by and say hi... =)

and... to congratulate Xi Hua too... (I see you celebrated with a new hairstyle)

and... hope cw's fine at her new job... didn't know u started your new job the same day i started mine =D what a coincidence. By the way I work at Tanjong Pagar... we could meet for lunch some time

and... to everyone else.... Happy CNY~!

Just popped in to say hi... haven't quite read the posts as yet, just glanced through... so that's it from me for now... see you all soon =)

=DD

hey guys!! thanks for all your prayers these past few weeks ya.. but most importantly, i want to thank god for giving me this result.. although it's not a six points with 8 dinstinctions kind of results, but given my standard, getting 11 points is really a miracle.. i have not been doing very well in my school's paper and i seriously do not think that the olvls this round is anything easier than my school's prelim paper.. thus, i actually prepared myself mentally to get 21 or even 31 kind of results.. as the time for the release of the olvls results neared, i prayed even harder to god, asking him to guide me along the way.. no matter what results i will get eventually, i trust that god will make a way for me and lead me as i continue with my education in either jc or poly..

as im waiting for my olvls results, i thought of a song, which really did provide me with strength and courage to face anything that comes in my way..

GOD will make a way
when there seems to be no way
he works in ways we cannot see
he will make a way for me
he will be my guide
hold me closely to his side
with love and strength
for each new day
he will make a way
By a road way in the wilderness, you lead me
rivers in the desert will i see
heaven and earth will fade, but his words will still remain
and he will do something new today

Congrats to Xihua!!

Hey Xihua got 11 pts for her L1R5, putting her in a prime position to decide where she wants to go for her Junior College education! She really should explain for herself here, but anyway, she is undecided whether to go to Meridian JC or St Andrews. Factors that affect include school culture (really tricky issue at that) and of course, proximity of the JC. Let's pray for Xihua that God will open up a path for Xihua for the next 2 years and that she can go into a JC where she can learn most from and be a testimony for God!

Once again, Congrats! [Remember to give thanks! =) ]

Hello!

Hi..

I was totally lost as i enter here.. Pardon me, as i'm already a dinasour (Obsolette auntie who doesn't know how to blog).

I took me more than 15 min to figure out who is this CW. I checked thru the Sunday Sch name list.. The first name is Xi Hua, so i thought it's her. But then, this CW is working, so I thought of Yin Pei. Finally i was rescued by Wen Liang, because he called CW his wife... Phew!!! Sweating already...

FYI, it really takes COURAGE for dinasour to even step inside.

In case you wonder who is this... I am Xiu Jiao. :)

untitled..? (x

HELLO!!
woah so many people have posted already.

anyway i was reading CW's post, and i was reminded of a song.
some of you may have heard it before i guess..
i think it's like suuperr nice.


Who Am I
who am i? that the Lord of all the earth,
would care to know my name, would care to feel my hurt?
who am i? that the bright and morning star,
would choose to light the way, for my ever wandering heart.

not because of who i am, but because of what You've done.
not because of what i've done, but because of who You are.

i am a flower quickly fading, here today and gone tomorrow.
a wave tossed in the ocean, a vapour in the wind.
still You hear me when i'm calling,
Lord You catch me when i'm falling,
and You told me who i am, i am Yours.

who am i? that the eyes that see my sin,
would look on me with love, and watch me rise again.
who am i? that the voice that calms the sea,
would call out through the rain and calm the storm in me?

whom shall i fear?

Choices

Ever wondered the amount of choices you go through each day? What time to wake up, which side of my teeth do I brush first, to gurgle 1 times, 2 times, how many times? The amount of choices we have to make each day to sustain our lives will fill up a few blogs! But these aren't the choices that we will remember when we are 30 days later or 30 years older. There are some choices in life we make that goes right down the memory lane. Which secondary school to choose, which life partners to choose and which jobs to take up. And how many of these choices are 'correct', how do we even know if they are correct?

I was going through the same phase of life as my wife (refer to earlier blog). Yes, today is my first day of my new appointment in the ministry and it is equivalent to a new job. 3 months ago, I was put through the process of deciding my future for the next 2 years. The first option presented to me was the one I wanted. The job scope was exciting, the recognition was good and it sure will do good for my CV in the future. In short, the dream job. I met the boss, new colleagues, was briefed on the job and all the introductory stuff. I was told that what was left was administrative tie-up. Hence, I waited for the day for me leave my current appointment for 'greener pasture.'

As much as I wanted it to happen, it didn't. The big boss didn't want me, details of which I do not need to discuss here. But I felt saddened, disappointed, especially when the next job that was offered up to me, didn't come with the hype that I saw in the previous one. It felt dull and 'administrative'. At first, I was reluctant to accept the job, but after much soul-searching, I realised this: It is what you make out of a job and not what the job makes out of you. I felt better. And today, I go on the job eager to learn and to prove myself all over again, looking forward to the changes I am entitled to make in this new portfolio. How did I come up to this decision? Borrowing something which I first heard from Yufei, WWJD (What would Jesus do). At this point of my life, I have already learnt a fact: God plans for all of us, and all we have to do is to believe in him.

Just 6 months ago, another disappointment intersected my life. I was nominated for a French course, besides the exposure and allowances, it would have been a great experience. But again it did not turn up as it should have. However, a short while later, I realised how lucky I was not to have gone to France for the course. The amount of preparation work me and CW had to do prior to our wedding was just neverending, and I dare say that if I had gone to France on that course, our wedding might not have happened at all!

So what I am trying to say here is this. We, humans; Christians can only make our choices on what we can SEE. But can our eyes tell us everything? And when we do not get what we had wanted for ourselves, is nothing ever going to make up for it? Is what we want for ourselves really what God has planned for us? Always remember this: God HAS a plan for us, we have to believe and let him do his work on you! I will go on with my work from now on with excitement and to honour God in anyway possible.

DISCLAIMER

By the way, I'm not encouraging you all to blog in English hor. I'm writing in English because my laptop doesn't have the capability to type in Chinese - yet. Wait till i figure out how to get the chinese characters going. haha.

A New Job

Can you ever be sure that the decision you is making at this point, or at any one point for that matter, is the right one? I guess you can never be. After a night of tossing and turning, and waking up all sleepy and grouchy at 7 plus AM this morning (the earliest in over a year, mind you) to 1) a concerned hubby shaking my shoulders 2) a concerned father's phone call 3) a concerned mummy's sms 4) and my nokia hp's super annoying alarm, snoozing for the 3rd time..... I embarked on a new journey that will take me to another phase of my working life - a new job.

Many friends and colleagues have asked me whether I am excited about the move. Hmm.. after the withdrawal symptoms I felt the last time I left my newspaper job, I would say I feel more apprehensive than excited. After all, journalists typically don't adapt well at all in "normal" working environments. I've gotten so used to waking up at 11am, going to work when it's lunchtime for most working adults, speaking my mind without thinking twice and wearing exactly what I feel like wearing to work (cept on days where there's parliament and ministerial or ceo level lunches). So much such that my brief stint in a statutory board backfired badly and brought me back where I came from - back to square one.

But the same problems that I faced the first time round have come back to haunt me all over again - unearthly hours (1) I have dinner at 11pm four out of five days a week 2) I earn about 20% less than my peers. All journos do, you see.. 3) I no longer have the fire in my belly that gives me springs beneath my heels and the neverending energy - what it takes to get solid news scoops - while getting peanuts and working 12 hour days.

Therefore, I tendered my resignation about a month ago after securing what I believe is a better job. This time, there are no tears.. just a bit of sadness and some apprehension.. fear of not being able to fit into a normal corporate environment. After all, can one ever be sure that something else is "better"? What are the defining characteristics of "better"? Is it pay? Is it fun colleagues? Is it shorter working hours? Or greater personal achievement?

So as I was thinking these thoughts on the MRT this morning, squashed like a sardine between others just like me during the rush hour, I whipped out a copy of The Daily Bread, which I had spotted lying on the shelf in church and taken yesterday during worship service. Funnily, it's a copy dated March to May, which is not even here yet. But I decided I could do with some good old spiritual reminders to start my important day.

The words jumped out at me. The message for the day - March 1 - was about Identity. The author wrote, "Who am I? As we strive to manage our interpersonal relations with one another, participate actively in social activities, keep on changing jobs.. isn't all this ultimately about finding out who we truly are? But even if we finally manage to find our place in the workplace and affirm our identities through our career achievements, who, then, will we be after retirement?

The good news is, says The Daily Bread, that our identity is found in Christ. That, no matter what we study in school, what we do for a living, what is the designation that appears on your name card, we share a single identity - born again Christians.

I alighted at Raffles Place MRT station in a frenzy (I was running late you see.. nobody is late for work on their first day).. but I kind of felt at peace, knowing that it doesn't really matter what I do and whether it is a better job or not. Followers of God, that's who we are, and who I am. Heehee.

I'm here!

我来也！

今天在主日学时，秀娇忘了跟大家说要做的功课。。。秀娇要每一位回家把第一课(chapter 1) 第1-11题作好，下星期在班上讨论。

不要忘记咯！

哈哈我厉害吧！竟然能用中文打出这则entry. 哈哈哈！