my life

mood: content

God is so good! He just showers us with free favours even til the last hour of the last day of 2009! Have been watching fireworks for the past 3 years with Jing Yi at the Marina Square foodcourt and we always had to stand for at least 2 hours to secure a space with a good view...but this year...we arrived at 10pm and we managed to get 'back row' seats by asking this guy who was sitting alone...we rested for 1 hour plus...and at 11.15pm we decided to stand up to wait nearer to the front before we get blocked by others...and at 11.20pm this couple sitting at the 'front row' seats offered us the extra seats to sit on! This has never ever happened and people were usually quite rude and temperamental the previous times we were there...really praise Jesus! All these happened within the last hour of 2009! The fireworks this year was also much better and nicer and lasted longer haha! Now i have more things to add to my list :)

January:

• Blessed with lots of red packets $$$ for Chinese New Year!

• Won my samsung D980 handphone from 8-Days SMS contest (in the midst of rushing assignments!!!)
• An invitation

• Started leading my team in Jubilee Kids - love the team :)
• Another invitation

• Know that I'm still special :)
• Enough $$$ to go for a graduation trip to Bali with the uni girls

• Won a huge Goodwood Park Hotel durian strudel from 8-Days SMS contest
• Blessed with a job through Wei Heng - good environment, good colleagues, good principal :)
• David was more open to going to church and he brought friends who brought friends who brought friends!

• Blessed with a good tuition assignment and i was paid on the first day i went there (caught me by surprise!)
• Received a HUGE bouquet of orchids from my mom for my graduation ceremony
• Had a mini NP caregroup graduation held for those of us who were moving to GenRev or other caregroups. Each of us received a huge card nicely decorated with our names on it. Each of us also had a 'testimonial' of us shared by selected juniors. Jie Tao gave a very good testimonial :)

• Found a good caregroup in GenRev - love Bishan caregroup :)

• My children successfully put up a dance performance for the mini National Day concert
• Blessed by Heow Khoon with Pastor Prince's 'Love Life and See Good Days' DVD set

• Received several gifts and lots of hugs for Teachers' Day :)

• A full-stop
• Organised a field trip successfully and learnt a lot from the experience

• Had a good parent-teacher meeting day and received good feedback from a few parents (was super stressed about it at first!)
• My children successfully put up a hip-hop dance performance for the Grandparents' Day concert
• Had the opportunity to sit with Pastor Lian for lunch (on both days) and converse with her during the Rock Kidz' Leaders' Retreat :)
• Approached to join the curriculum team in 2010

• Blessed by Heow Khoon with Pastor Prince's 'Unmerited Favour' book!!!
• Blessed by my family and friends with lots of red packets $$$ for my birthday and all my celebration meals were paid for :)
• Other blessings for my birthday - Jing Yi made a video for me, Shereen bought me Godiva chocolates, Cheryl sent me $20 Isetan vouchers through mail (just received it a few days ago!), David blessed me with a meal of yummy crabs, had a nice picnic at Marina Barrage with my secondary school friends, my colleague Cindy gave me a nice notebook and handmade a keychain and a bookmark :)
• Invited to witness Sharon and Kenny's wedding :)
• Enough $$$ to go for a holiday trip to Batam with Jing Yi
• Given the opportunity to help in setting up a new centre
• Success in planning of caregroup's Christmas lunch party :)
• God-incidentally met the NP guys (Jeremy, Jie Tao, Edmund) on Christmas night and received a dinner treat from Edmund
• Received my pro-rated 13th month bonus
• Got offered seats on 31st December when Jing Yi and i were waiting to watch the fireworks :) :) :)

mood: satisfied

• Blessed with lots of red packets $$$ for Chinese New Year!

• Won my samsung D980 handphone from 8-Days SMS contest (in the midst of rushing assignments!!!)
• An invitation

• Started leading my team in Jubilee Kids - love the team :)
• Another invitation

• Know that I'm still special :)
• Enough $$$ to go for a graduation trip to Bali with the uni girls

• Won a huge Goodwood Park Hotel durian strudel from 8-Days SMS contest
• Blessed with a job through Wei Heng - good environment, good colleagues, good principal :)
• David was more open to going to church and he brought friends who brought friends who brought friends!

• Blessed with a good tuition assignment and i was paid on the first day i went there (caught me by surprise!)
• Received a HUGE bouquet of orchids from my mom for my graduation ceremony

• Found a good caregroup in GenRev - love Bishan caregroup :)

• My children successfully put up a dance performance for the mini National Day concert
• Blessed by Heow Khoon with Pastor Prince's 'Love Life and See Good Days' DVD set

• Received several gifts and lots of hugs for Teachers' Day :)

• A full-stop
• Organised a field trip successfully and learnt a lot from the experience

• Had a good parent-teacher meeting day and received good feedback from a few parents (was super stressed about it at first!)
• My children successfully put up a hip-hop dance performance for the Grandparents' Day concert
• Had the opportunity to sit with Pastor Lian for lunch (on both days) and converse with her during the Rock Kidz' Leaders' Retreat :)
• Approached to join the curriculum team in 2010

• Blessed by Heow Khoon with Pastor Prince's 'Unmerited Favour' book!!!
• Blessed by my family and friends with lots of red packets $$$ for my birthday
• Invited to witness Sharon and Kenny's wedding :)
• Enough $$$ to go for a holiday trip to Batam with Jing Yi
• Given the opportunity to help in setting up a new centre
• Success in planning of caregroup's Christmas lunch party :)
• God-incidentally met the NP guys (Jeremy, Jie Tao, Edmund) on Christmas night and received a dinner treat from Edmund
• Received my pro-rated 13th month bonus

mood: determined

• learning and trying to look at the positive side of things
• looking unto Jesus for strength and perseverance and a positive mindset

• trrrrrrrrrrrrrrry as haaaaaaaaaaard as i caaaaaaaaaaaaaaan to see from the perspective of those adults...which is extremely hard when i'm at the receiving end of the 'trouble'
• looking unto Jesus for wisdom to deal with them and abundance of favour with them...to have such a super very glib tongue to honey and butter them up

• always plan and start in advance
• looking unto Jesus for wisdom in time management and managing workload...learning to constantly rest in Him and not worry about tml's tml's tml work...just do what i can do at the moment

• just look unto Jesus...spend time with Him...talk to Him...complain to Him...tell Him everything that you need to...just rest in Him...this is the only solution

mood: thoughtful

1 month and 10 days more of chionging assignments before the last day of school which means graduation...i can't wait!
1 month and 19 days more to Bali graduation trip with some of the uni girls...i can't wait too!

but what comes after???
i'm gonna miss the girls =I
not feeling that stressed about my career options but everyone's starting to consider their options...so should i...

for the past 3 months, i have been blessed...it's just a prelude of the more abundant free favours to come in the next months...

• i survived the intensive 6 weeks of school with the mountains of assignments, meanwhile having 'fun' with the girls during the stayovers and late nights of chiong-ing work..accomplishment!
• in the midst of chionging assignments, i was informed that i won a latest Samsung D980 phone from a sms contest ...happiness!
• i have started to do briefing/de-briefing and reports for my church nursery team...thankful for a amazing mentor and a supportive team...excitedness!
• many many more little favours along the way...

mood: amused

Some hilarious things in life just have to be recorded down before they are forgotten! Jerome, my coming-to-4-years-old nephew is the source of these funny comments hahah!

Scene 1: Family in the car travelling on a road in Hougang...

Jerome: Where are we?

Me: In Hougang.

Jerome: No! We are in the car.

... ... ...dots... ... ...

and he didn't say that on purpose...he can soon become king of cold and lame jokes (like me) haha