i cant believe its the first day of Feburary already.

CNY celebrations have been a blast!

I shall look back upon these memories as treasured ones

particularly poignant becuz i decided to take the first leap
of faith and started socializing with people

very happy because

i finally started chatting with my childhood friends after
losing contact

and also made new friends!

my cousins and relatives also got to know me better, and vice
versa =)

my boss gave me an angpao, and my mentor bought me a currypuff!

also God (and mummys pills) healed my strained knee.

now to wait for the slight rash and bruised hip to heal =)

Revelation: i cannot let myself be determined by what i cant do,
but what i can.

i saw an eighty year old lady today who could
straight off remember her friends house numbers.

a completely lucid veteran who seemed to care
less about her age and more about how to enroute
travel to her next destination.

and she smiled often too, naturally.

i think she should be a leading icon for Spore's growing
pool of senior citizens.

and

sometimes i think people shouldn be so afraid of things
that really-
when you think about it,

arent worth being afraid of at all.

things that made me happy today:

practicing piano with sis

waving my dad off to work

eating 'pizza' for breakfast with my mum
(homemade crisp toast with tomato paste n cheese)

walking to TP central with my sis

stepping out of my mrt station to head to work-

the feeling of morning-breeze- soft- sunlight weather
walking along wide empty streets is incredible.

working in the office. cool huh!

reading novels in the large bookstore nearby.

Artmeis Fowl 's latest book! i ve read Eoin Colfer since
i was in secondary school and i m still entralled by
the wonder genius Artemis.
(in this edition, he is actually as old as me ^^)

bus-ing home and just pondering my thoughts.

eating dinner with my family.

the anticipation of giving tuition tomorrow.

yeapps! =)

and the revelation that talking about nasty/ depressing
topics over meals make ur food taste bad!

Thank You Lord for all these and so much more XD

TRIBUTE POST TO MY SISTERS:

to the six-pointer-minus-four-is-two younger sis,
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
you ve worked really hard,
and you deserved it =D
Da jie and family is really proud of you!! ^^

to the Piano-Grade-Five-Theory-Merit youngest sis,
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
you might not like playing the piano much,
but this shows you can succeed when you
put your mind to it and do your best!!
Da jie and family is very very proud of you too!! ^^

and on a less high note:
got my two hundred dollars award
from NYJC and i met Joey and friends!!

twas cool just spending time with her-
talking like the good ol days =)

also i am a true-blue-tutor now~
gave my first assignment teaching English
to Kathy from Korea-
and am looking forward to being
the Best kind of tutor i can be-
which means
I MUST BE MATURE AND WISE BEYOND MY AGE!

-and the boy Jesus grew in wisdom, stature,
and in favour with God and men.- ^^

am trying to catch up on my Bible Reading Plan
bcuz im inspired by Dominic from HoGc!
right now im at Genesis 23+ when Esau and Jacob
were born!
did you know Esau actually means Hairy One?

and he sold his birthright for a bowl of soup and bread.

so his little brother received all his father's blessings instead.

i think God means we should treasure what we have
because we never know how important it was
until we lose it.

be afraid,
be very afraid of the real world out there kids.

thats pretty much what i ve heard since young.
the rat race.
its a dog-eat-dog world out there.

i think i understand why,
a little more now.

1.The church builds people, and not vice-versa.
2. We are authentic, not plastic.
3. We are team players and not stars.
4.We do not use people-we LOVE people. =)

Last weekend, Pastor Lia preached this.
Four days later, i m still thinking about her sermon.

My last three years in church have been a reflection
of this. People able to live extraordinarily for Christ.

Even as i think about it;
i realise it is near impossible that you can find people
of the same characteristic so easily, in the same place.

i realise it is not just my church mates themselves
but because they have God with them.
When you love Jesus, people know it.
They feel it because
its like a part of you already.
Your new strand of DNA ^^

some things just never cease to amaze me.

MY DREAM FOR 2009:

she sips a glass of sparkling white grape juice victoriously.

Armed with a powerful resume and that determined glint
in her eyes accumulated from countless work
and volunteer experiences, she confidently sails through
her first year in NUS college with HONOURS-

No doubt wiser, more mature and ever more in love with God
she strucks people with that aura of humility and love
that juxtaposes with that undefeatable businesswoman ethnic
she possesses naturally.

As a team leader in Generations bookstore and Livefeed Crew
she handles the busy weekends and busier weekdays with
calm ease and a surreal joy eminating from one who has
found and experienced the neverending fountain of faith.

She is close with her Connect Group, and ensures she spends
time to fellowship with all her good friends.
A year has past-
a year that involved securing a Grade 8 for Piano
a year that involved successfully learning to drive
a year that involved writing and speaking Chinese well
a year that involved growing my own business
a year that invloved lots of growing up whilst staying young
a year that involved becoming one of the official spokesperson
for the SINGAPORE YOG 2010!

Reality is cruel but-
Dreams can come true =)