Bandaged Soul...so I can open my heart to you again.

So we've been experiencing quite a bit of bright sunshine lately, haven't we? And at this moment, I'm feeling the sunshine inside of me. Thinking about it makes it closer to exploding. It's the knowledge of my Father's love, and of His grace that brings my heart to know it. Worship was great this morning. It was a heart-to-heart time with God and I felt engaged. I believe we hit something. I can't put my finger on it, but I'm really grateful for His faithfulness cos I know that there's so much more that He wants us to get into - more than what we seek after. I pray that we can fathom His holiness more deeply and give Him the praise and worship He truly deserves. I'm so looking forward to next Sunday! Worthy is the Lamb!

Check out my new green canvas crocs! First time wearin it today, yo! Super comfortable. My favourite colour, too! :)

Please let me share this song with you. I feel the joy of the Lord when I listen to it - it's quite catchy, too. You know what Pst Bailey said about the joy of the Lord. It's the antidote in times of famine - for the joy of the Lord is our strength. Joyfully - Kari Jobe JOYFULLY By Kari Jobe You lead me by the waters still You lay me down to rest upon your faithfulness My Sheperd, simply take my hand Your song restores my soul For Your name, You make me whole Joyfully I lift my voice in praise to Thee With heaven watching over me I raise my hands up high Your Majesty gently washes over me Makes my heart begin to sing joyfully No shadow ever shall I fear Your peace, my heart will know My cup it overflows Your goodness chases after me Your mercy and Your grace will be my dwelling place Joyfully I lift my voice in praise to Thee With heaven watching over me I raise my hands up high Your Majesty gently washes over me Makes my heart begin to sing joyfully I will sing from the mounta

After I finish writing my lunchtime post, I went out of the office and it was pouring outside...with wind, ok!!! Wah, it was an immediate energy perk! :) Anyway, I went Cyber Centre to reconfigure my wifi connection on my Touch... woohoo, it's fixed! Weather update: the rain has subsided. Cool stuff...

Lunching in means that I get a little bit of time to rest before resuming an afternoon of work. For the past weeks, the weather has been rather unbearable. I woke up yesterday morning with perspiration even with the fan at full blast. When the weather is hot, it makes me tire more easily. I'm glad I'm not picky about what I eat so I usually just go for the shortest queue at lunch. It's unlikely that you'll find me in a long line anywhere. Not for food, at least. Not if I can help it. Last Friday, however, I was in a super long queue that went as far as 2 Expo exhibition hall, with one part already went in a long stretch inside an empty hall. It was the crocs sale. This is the first, and hopefully the last, that I'd ever go for something like that. The reason why I bothered even join the queue, I think, was because I actually took half day leave to specially come and take a look and I had my colleague, Phaedra, with me. Minus the 2 factors, I might have just walked o

We all hid inside the music room, waiting for the folks at my mom's Church to come down from their Hokkien Service for their refreshment. When she was spotted, we brought out the birthday cake, and sang her a birthday song, all 13 of us, children, children-in-law and grandchildren. She just stood there and cried. Awww... After that, when we managed to find a box of matches to light the candle on the cake (lol), all her Church mates joined in to sing the birthday song again. After she blew out the candle, her Pastor prayed for her. After all is said and done, and everybody ate the cake, the kueys and the shou taos, we headed to David's pasta stall at Old Airport Road so that he and Pam will not be left out of the gathering. So Mission Surprise was a success! Haha... It was our way of honouring the superhero of our lives, especially for me and my siblings. I love my mom. I thank God constantly for her and the things she has done for me and the family. I'm really thankful that

It has been an errand-ful day today: Coordinated clarinet ensemble and choir performance for a colleague's event; Collected Malacca-Singapore coach tickets at Golden Mile Complex for early return from Church Camp; Drop by Church area, wanted to order cake for mom's birthday surprise celebration tomorrow but it was a failed attempt. Went Hua Li Xuan and bought some snacks for lunch with mom at home; Ordered kuey from 3rd aunt at Dunman food centre as part of the food for the birthday celebration and bought the most happening wanton noodle at Eng's (not my family's, just happened to be the stall name) right opposite my aunt's stall; Ordered birthday cake near my place. Ok, I'm going to bed. Good night! Note to self: Must eat Eng's wanton mee again...SOON :P~ I had forgotten how much I love it. But parking will be a problem, though. Btw, their chilli is pedas gila, I tell you! ;D

The Cure for Disappointment by Max Lucado Don’t ask God to do what you want. Ask God to do what is right. When God doesn’t do what we want, it’s not easy. Never has been. Never will be. But faith is the conviction that God knows more than we do about this life and he will get us through it. Disappointment is cured by revamped expectations. I like that story about the fellow who went to the pet store in search of a singing parakeet. Seems he was a bachelor and his house was too quiet. The store owner had just the bird for him, so the man bought it. The next day the bachelor came home from work to a house full of music. He went to the cage to feed the bird and noticed for the first time that the parakeet had only one leg. He felt cheated that he’d been sold a one-legged bird, so he called and complained. “What do you want,” the store owner responded, “a bird who can sing or a bird who can dance?” Good question for times of disappointment.

For the past 3 days (19-21 May 09), I've been treated to 3 feasts a day at the VIP Reception on the virtue that I'm in the Graduation Ceremony Organising Committee. My role is mainly to coordinate performances during these 3 days at the end of the ceremony and in the VIP Reception. The interior of the VIP Reception Room Speaking of the VIP Reception area, this is the second year we're using this venue. Before this place was done up, it was an open rooftop area filled with patio umbrellas. Now is surrounded by full length glass panels, carpeted with built-in washrooms and kitchen. So I managed to take a few pictures with some students I could get hold of among the crowds of graduates and their guests. ...with Woon Jiun ...with Kenneth ...with Royston ...with Hui Zhen Managed to take more with some other graduates but not with my phone... Anyway, the 3 days were filled with numerous trips to and from my office and the Temasek Convention Centre to ensure that all the performer

Early in the morning, I find myself paving the VIP Reception room while the catering staff set up the food table. It's the type of food that probably only about 10% of the attendees would get to see and eat. And unknown to 99.7% of those sitting in the hall right now, our Chinese Orchestra's Stringed Ensemble is setting up in the VIP Reception area, getting ready for the end of the ceremony to present their repertoire to the distinguished guests later. One session today and 2 more tomorrow. But the 2 dance performances will take turns to perform after the Valedictorian Speech at all 9 sessions over these 3 days. All the best to the performers, and to me as well... OT this whole week!

My once full litre bottle of Absolut Vanilla was emptied and now stands in my fridge with delicious chilled water. It was a bottle bought a few years back because I liked the bottle. But the content tasted like cough syrup. So it was left untouched till a few days ago when I decided to pour the vodka down the sink. It didn't take me many moments of heart pain before I tilted the bottle. It's not like I'm an acoholic, or that it was something nice to the palate. But nevertheless, it didn't exactly cost just a few dollars, either. One evening I was drinking from it again, and I was reminded of the woman, who washed Jesus' feet with her alabaster flask of fragrant oil that costed a year's wage. To others, it may seem like a waste. But to that woman, it was worship. What others think of her could not deter her from expressing her gratitude towards her Saviour. The Anointing at Bethany Matthew 6:6-13 6 And when Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, 7

How do you cure the habit of lateness? Well, if you were in my case yesterday where you were stucked for more than 10 mins in a queue to drive into the school gate, you might feel the same inspiration to rise above yourself to embrace the work etiquette of reporting to work on time. At my work place, we kinda have a choice of reporting to office at 8.30am or 9am. On and off I'd ponder if I should switch from my current 8.30am reporting time, to steal more sleeping time. But after today's saga, which I was late due to unforeseen circumstance, I was quite determined to be contented with the current arrangement. If I'm going to be late no matter how much I try to be on time, it would be frustratingly futile.

A person who is blind, in any sense, is blind. They may have their other senses heightened to help them perceive and get around, but they are still blind (a.k.a. cannot see). My point is... If you are blind, you cannot see what you can't see. In the non-physiological sense, you don't know what you don't know. I guess that's why as we grow older and acquire more knowledge, more often than not, we become aware that the more we learn, the more we don't know. And if we know better, we would be humbled by it. By God's grace and revelation, I am. Even in my faith, I know I am still amazed by the grace of God, what He can do and will do for those He love, and I'm often awed by how unfailing and faithful is His love. So, in our weakness and imperfection, I often wonder how anyone could afford to be arrogant and be in contempt of those who appear to be ignorant of any topic. Cuz even if we claim to know very much about something, our knowledge is not complete and we

So I thought it went quite well yesterday evening with the Vocal Jam session. Even though, sadly, only half of the worship vocalists could make it, I thought it was, nevertheless, a good start for me. A good experience to encourage me that, "I can do it!" Haha... I've always felt that teaching is not my cup of tea. So I never even dared to venture into giving tuition. I mean, what if I teach the wrong thing? My impression is that, if you wanna be a teacher, you have to be really good at a certain subject. Not just having the knowledge, but know how everything falls into place. Your foundation has to be strong. Like if you teach English Language, it's not enough even if you have all the vocabulary. You have to know sentence structures, rules of grammar, conjunctions, what defines a verb, adverb, adjective, noun, blah, blah, blah. For me, I just know whether a sentence sounds right (and I might be wrong, too). I don't have the proper 'formula' behind it. Per

I think it's amazing how sometimes one lesson in life can be applicable to another area later as we progress but we only realised after we get upset about it again the second time. Ok, that's a mouthful. Read slower. For the past 2 years I've been working especially closely with one of the student groups under my charge, and together, through trials and 'tribulation', we managed to set up and establish ways of doing things. Sometimes frustration and confusion happens which upset things we worked hard for but we learnt from it and accepted it as teething problems that occurs during transitions. And we move on. This year, I'm adding one group within my more immediate 'radar range', hoping to adopt certain principles and work processes for improvement. Recently, there was a certain issue of negligence by one of the committee members which, in my opinion, kinda set us back a few steps in our progress. It upset me a little at first because I know the conseque

It seems like I haven't been getting online very much at home lately. Been kinda busy. Nowadays I feel really tired by the time I drive into a parking lot when I get home. Sometimes I would leave the engine on and sit in the car for a few minutes just to wind down. Gotta be careful not to get too comfortable though, or I'd be super tempted to let down the back rest and sleep. Yes, I've done that before. In my life, 2 areas that occupy most of my time is work and Church. In any way I try to see it, both are never ending. It's an on-going process. Many times it takes a conscious effort to tell myself to shut down the PC at work. It's getting easier, though, and I hope it's a positive sign. But I do have to get past that deceiving guilt when there are people staying back and just tell myself that I have my share of staying back, too. Past few weeks, events in school (a.k.a. work) have been happening back to back which took up quite a bit of after-office-hour time.