day of random meetings...
only attended 2 lectures today cause the other 2 was cancelled, but had loads of fun meeting up the different ones.
enjoyed catching up with angie over lunch. marche's crepe is yummylicious since it is topped with fresh cut strawberries. and i also got my favorite rosti with whipped cream from there! talked about many many things together. looking forward to meeting her up again next week for bs also!
and finally got to see daniyal after a looooong holiday break. looking forward to have him join the ntu peeps more often this sem. :D
tuition today with william was great fun despite my sleepiness. work hard and you'll see improvements in your results! he is really really smart!
saw jingzhou on my way out. goodness me! his haircut is really drastic that it took me 3 whole minutes to recognize him!!! imagine the surprise of the rest of the cg tmr. haha. he's cute! walked all the way from bukit batok to teck whye station with him. enjoyed the time catching up with him.
and on the train ride home, i actually saw TAIGONG!!!
it's rather funny how we were trying to meet each other up for our business matters but just never happened and saw each other on our way back. hehe. glad to have heard him share his life with me in some ways. taigong, jiayou!
whoo! and Cecilia shared a very exciting piece of news with me today! believing with her for greater things to come in the months ahead! and believing for the same to happen for my cg in the next few months too! *excited* you go girl!
and something else Min shared spurred me thinking...
what would i actually do upon graduation?
would i go on to pursue a masters or phd? or would i just start working?
prolly need to start thinking and planning, eben though it is still two and a half years' away...
PRAY!!!
Labels: dailys, inspiration, thoughts
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12:55 AM
just got back from Joyce's 21st birthday celebration which was a great hit! with many thanks to Cheryl, Brian, Howard, Peter and Liwei for all the planning and actions carried out.
always loved time-out together with this bunch of pple. always filled with much fun, laughter and love. sparks may be flying here and there but the camaraderie is going great. love it!
an ode to Joyce...
thanks for being the can-do woman for all of us. always so selfless, loving and giving, never withholding. the standards are set so high, but yet never imposed on others but self. she is truly a woman of our times. Joyce, rock on with your zest and zeal and continue making an impact in the year ahead! You deserve it babe!
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the travelling back to school was yet another great time of hilarity. with six of us walking down the street like we own the road, we do look kinda distraught. to think we saw a maxi-cab and thought the uncle signaled for us to go over and to only see him board the cab and go off when he saw us walking over. God, bless this man. we wonder what went wrong.
it was quite a sight to see us walking down the street with all our 'barangs' and stopping cabs that came along our way. i think we were only short of singing to have gotten really 'high'. but anyway, thankful for the third cab that stopped and sent us all back to our lovely school and comfort of Karu's home. which now i get the luxury of blogging. haha.
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today feels different yet again. with myself all dolled up, with kudos to min and karu, the attention got a bit overwhelming but yet pleasant. with a little effort, i could really look so much better. hehe. feeling a little bit more feminine now. thanks gals for showing me the way! =p
with that aside, went for a waffles treat with bestie today. i'm glad that this long overdue treat has now been given and now both of us enjoy the liberty of waffles. it seems like an end but yet the start of something different - or perhaps, it has always been a continuation. the conversations that we had granted me greater insights of the friendship that we both share. but even more so, what is it that i really want to see God do in our lives - the destiny and calling He has for each of us. there is so much that each of us can do in our individual capacity. i'm learning not to be hung up over certain areas now. and more than ever before, the serenity that i feel in my heart to not think so much but to be led and just do it.
things may change but i know that God never will. and that settles many many of the issues and questions that i may have now. even i don't know, He knows. i just need to learn to hear and follow...
looking forward to greater breakthroughs and growth...
Labels: birthdays, dailys, fellowship
1:14 AM
had my hg205 article presentation on tues and went to talk to bee abt it. got a B+, which i'm rather pleased with considering how i've been faring in my linguistic modules. i think it is a breakthrough considering how i have a tendency to get 'stage fright' and stutter. and the best thing yet is that i could respond very quickly and aptly to all the questions that was being thrown at me. really thank God for the grace although having only read the article once. Bee felt that the responses i gave were well-fielded. and an observation min made was that sherman gave an approving and satisfied look after i answered his query, which is super rare since he usually has valid point of rebuttal. =)
today is the third day of the morning pms. thank God for friends for sleeping early reminders and i got up early enough to reach paya lebar on time. shall aim to be in the hall before the whole meeting starts. anyway, i really enjoy starting my day with God. the peace and the love can never be compared. not forgetting the words that were spoken...
had steamboat with weiliang, ziyun and min after a long discussion for HG205. was fun fellowshipping together after a long day before hitting the books again, or rather, put our mouth into practice. really appreciate the friends i've been making in uni. they do aid in keeping sanity in some sense...
went off to fellowship with wei thereafter. was challenged, inspired and touched by what she shared. and i got reminded that many a times, we shortchange ourselves in our lives through the decisions we make. sometimes, the mistakes do help us to learn but often, at the expense of receiving less than what we should have been able to receive.
it saddens and pains us to see that happening to those who are dear to our hearts. but isn't it true that the one case we see in a blue moon is actually a norm to God? and that everyday there would be someone who make that mistake. imagine then, the intensity of what God feels as compared to what we feel. i'm challenged to live right to reach the fullest potential of my life, developing it in all areas. and at the same time, to give my best in helping to shape the next generation. there is a price to pay to live right and it is a choice that we make daily. wei, keep on keeping on. she has been a real inspiration to me today. and to sum it all, there is a price that comes with leadership and the price is paid for in instalments without knowing the total amount. but yet, we see ourselves growing and our capacity expanding, blooming into people we never have imagined that we would ever become...
time is a very good friend when we learn to appreciate it...
1:03 AM
saturation point...
my brain is practically fried after all the information processing and brainstorming for my HG205 presentation, HW111 Assignment and HG205 Research Proposal. and today is only tuesday!
but i guess it is probably due to the lack of sleep. i'm almost a full panda in the making with very prominent eyebags. but amidst all, i'm enjoying the daily prayer in church, i shall get up earlier to go tmr, implying that i should really sleep earlier today. *keeping fingers crossed* it is always great to start and end off your day hearing from your abba. ^^
next week gonna be loaded before the mid-term break. i'm seriously contemplating about my trip to cameron for a short getaway, but would definitely need to balance it up with the deadlines...
from now till next week...
1. HG205 Article Review (1500words)
2. Phonetics Quiz
3. Sociolinguistics Quiz
4. HG 205 Research Proposal (1500words)
5. Hw111 Assignment 2 (500 words)
6. HW111 Assignment 3 Outline
from mid-term to before examinations...
1. HG 212 Quiz
2. HG 212 Project Work
3. HG 205 Research Project
4. HG 205 Chairing
5. HG 220 Quiz
6. HG 220 Research Project
7. HW 111 Assignment 3
8. HW 111 Assignment 4
9. HG 203 Research Project
and to top it all off, i still have more than 300 pages of readings to do weekly, not including all the background research and readings that has to be done for the research project. i wonder who ever said that university is easier than A levels...
let the weak say that i am strong for i have You with me...
Labels: dailys
3:37 PM
today marks the start of the first week of prayer meeting in 2009. went for the evening session since i went for citycare @ northview this morning.
i enjoyed my day doing things that i like and also mugged quite a fair bit, churning out my article review for presentation. still on it now but shouldnt take too long from now...
anw, today's prayer meeting was great. felt really challenged to want to take praise for the next ntu pm to stretch my own faith and capacity. and the next step wld be to sms francis. but it was indeed a great faith-infilling time. prayed for wisdom in who to deposit love units into and also to watch who i allow to deposit in. i think we all need to learn...
and i'm glad that pastor taught us on the love bank principle. been quite a while now that i didn't know how to go about praying for this area of my life. and now with specificity and persistency, i'm making my prayer request known to my abba...
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Labels: dailys, quotes, thoughts
11:21 AM
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