What say you?
August 25, 2009 
Today, I talked and ate non-stop.
I feel like a talking pig. (teeheehee)
Thanks be to God for opportunities to catch up, encourage & share.
Those I met today: you are precious to me.
let us not stop encouraging & edifying.
realizations & realizations.
August 24, 2009 
yay my first birthday cake for this year! baked by ailing (:
1) most amazing team prepared some amazing early birthday cum farewell dinner which rocked my socks. (thankz– it made me smile 
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Miffy says hello
2) say hello to miffy- my first birthday present of the year! (thankew ailing ) I like miffy very much. Now my bear that sara gave me has a companion. I like this crochet hobby thing, so long as I am not the person who’s crocheting!
3) I like when we sit, share and pray together. the deep sense of fostering a relationship grounded in Christ is truly amazing. Can never imagine how God allowed our lives to even cross paths. and even for some, it meant going one whole big round and back again- because our God is amazing. So, I seek more. more of such fellowship of just sharing and praying and then realizing that God has led us in many ways that are similar. let us remember philippians: I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. quite amazing how God has led each one of us to this verse through different methods, ultimately leading us to ponder hard about the suffering aspect. let us continue to encourage one another :]
4) I think I’ve been busy. I missed out on quite a bit of some people’s life which I treasure. I apologize. You mean much much to me too! it’s just been occasion after occasion and thing after thing and people to meet after people to meet. I’m sorry if I’ve shown much neglect. ah, sigh. The woes of being confined in time and space! I will work doubly hard to keep in touch :] I trust God will sustain our friendship, despite the little time spent with each other. you are in my prayers. I think about you too. :]
5) this whole business about leaving: has eaten in to the trenches of my heart. I know I will not get to see everyone before I leave. that is sadz (times alot). there’s so many things I want to tell you, but there’s just no time. and everyone is busybusy. but this leaving thing, I have ultimately left to God to handle. this nagging fear of what if I die on the plane or what if you die before i come back… always a real fear. but ailing reminded me: if then any of us die, then it’ll be to our gain! (just like paul said: to live is Christ and to die is gain). let me live each day like I’m ready to see Christ.
6) I’ll miss you. <3 I think a part of me has been lost– this affectionate, I miss you, I love you, I’d like to give you a hug thingy. A part of the affectionate me has gone with the wind and has gone with the rise of independence and I’ll like to do things on my own, thank you very much. I want to reclaim that part of me, because, I want to still be there lending a crying shoulder, holding a hand, giving a hug, when necessary. I must adjust! and I am still figuring out how to. I am just one awkward social creature that has lost affectionate prowess, I know not why! I pray God will soften my heart to show love in more ways than the ways I know how to. I yearn to love with my mind, and with my heart too.
ok, enough enough thoughts for a night of murtabak. I like. :]
August 22, 2009 
Alot in just 2 days-
It has been a pleasantly eventful 2 days of being around people and just enjoying myself laughing my head of at funny things and funny people who make me smile. and the midst of it all, I want to thank God, before leaving the place I call home- because this holiday has been especially memorable, with all God has graciously provided.
yesterday was the project serve graduation. I survived 3 weeks with interestingly different people who were same, but yet starkly different in so many ways. This bunch of project serve girls have been especially charming. & I know life would not be the same after these 3 weeks of feeding them with my baking, going through the turmoils of receiving the O level results, standing in the hot sun to do street-e and dealing with the most bratty kids from the school programs. It has been a truly meaningful time, and these girls were awesome, in so many ways.
3 weeks to build a friendship that will last forever.
& after the graduation was especially good noodles at Adam road food centre with Wai Ling and a car adventure to find Mount Faber where we went to the top and where there was a awesome lovely view! (very pretty.) and it was my first time up, the weather was so nice and the skies were clear so we could see the stars! & a really long talk that found me driving home past midnight. thank God I didnt fall asleep behind the wheel, cos it could have potentially happened because I was so tired.
And, bright and early!, Dadi breakfast with Mel and Sam and finally deciding that we will go to hongkong this year, Aug. I really hope we do because I am practicing my canto with much fervour! nothing beats having nice egg prata with special people though we were all probably half asleep inside because it was so early.
Then, Sentosa.
:)
Sandcastle building with East area!
& Winnie’s 21st birthday celebration! at ben and jerry’s! and we watched Ink Heart!
birthday food
& dinner with team at Shokudo :] :]
Dinner with team!
& me and AL's never-fail-to-take-photo-in-toilet picture.
Thank you, God for these wonderful friendships. :] that made this holiday, so worthwhile.
Melissa Chan quote:
I’m like too humble pls, actually I’m princess Melissa Chan who’s gonna live in Evelyn gardens
Is she Princess or what?
But okay larh, I still love you <3. Cos you cook good food and bake good stuff (Ok, that is not why I became friends with you!) – though I know you became friends with me so I can bring back your havis that you shipped to me! (Just Joking! : D)
HAVE FUN IN EVELYN GARDENS : D
Sara Parn:
I thought about Sara today when I saw the crew boat, and I laughed to myself.
Sara: ” You are going to make us capsize larrrhh!”
Abby: “I wont okay, I AM A SAILOR!”
Sara: “okay, let’s paddle”
-we capsize-
Sara:” SEE LARRRHHH!”
Abby: “Eh, upright lah.”
Abby:” okay, dont anyhow move.”
Sara:” ohhhhh…”
-we capsize again-
I will never forget that episode, Sara Parn. And how you invade my dreams last night with you dying and I crying buckets. Okay, I miss all those Street E days where we stand outside parkway and sweat it out trying to talk to dao kids, and I will never forget how you brought me back to syfc. But what encourages me most is your walk of faith- and your steady trust in who God really is in your life. You’re a gem! 
I will really cry buckets if you weren’t part of my life.
thanks!
Parny
At a moment like this, remembering Sara really gives me a push to persevere.
Today, I thank God for Family.
The gratefulness I feel in my heart for this entity will be eternal. Friends & Seasons come and go, but family sticks with you forever, whether you like it or not.
I want to remember my sacrificial mother, my grandparents and my aunty today as I move into Hall. I will be forever indebted to this family. I wouldn’t have survived it if I were here alone, knowing Abigail Han. So even if they have their own idiosyncracies and even when they look like their the only ones who can get me irritated, I’m thankful for a loving family. Yes, even those back home.
I thank God for His larger family too.
For people who care enough to keep up with me and keep me in prayers. How can I ever thank you enough for remembering me. Thanks for the love, it means alot.
You cant change family, You’d just have to figure ways to love them better.
Thank God for all the Giants in my life
Wai Ling
Avid encourager of all the events I tried my best to organise and participate in
violent at times, yet always sharing goodwill.
Number one supporter of Mount holyoke goods and hopes I bring home a whole set of Mt Holyoke goodies for her.
Gives real hard, but warm hugs.
Nevertheless, I’d miss her, very much indeed.
Faith Giants, indeed.
Influence.
I wouldn’t count my lucky stars, but I would with my whole-heart thank God for putting people who exert greatest positive influence, and motivate me to be more christ-like, in my life. People who would encourage me when I’m down, laugh at me when I’m lame, uplift me in prayer when the time comes.
I thank God for putting me in the JC-East Team. A smal team of just 4 people. But people with big loving hearts, who’s willing to take all chances, and go through all means just to keep in contact with me when I leave. Who’d offer to go shopping for all those nitty gritty stuff I need, who’d offer to skype me and keep me in check with my spiritual walk with God and who’d offer to check if I did QT and if I’ve studied the bible correctly. For such friends and sisters, Thank God, really.
So, to Ailing, Angela and Lydia. Thank you for being such good sisters and friends as well as a great influence on my life. For being so loving and caring to me, especially for the last 2 years as I was serving in the JC team alongside you guys.
But thanks be to God for allowing us to cross paths
Cheers to our friendship and to the 30 and MORE years of friendship down the road.
I especially look forward to the time when we’d return to our Heavenly Home and worship Him, the author of our lives and friendship.
