I'm back!
and its been a wonderful trip.
and before i could embark on my personal plans of spring cleaning (though it's still winter)
i am swarmed by 1001 tasks, duties and expectations.

not that i work to please men..
but i still struggle to meet up to them.

ugh. tmr i have a short few hours to do the following chores:
1. clean my window grills,
2. wipe all my shelves and tables
3. clean my rocking chair
4. clean all my storage boxes..
5. send my comforter to the laundry + collect my winter coat from the laundry (Read: hole in the pocket)
6. wash the fan
7. mop the floor

and then i'd be off to my beloved church/home to prep for the Xmas service :)

Monday 10am prep for Youth Outreach for Xmas. I still haven't prep my staple. I wonder if there'd be a miracle.. I totally forgot about it until just now :S and i'm supposed to be in charge of food. yikes.

and Monday = Xmas eve. I need to rush writing all those cards I have. I doubt it'll reach some people before Xmas - since they are half way around the globe.
I remember last xmas eve I was busy helping wenlin and ge @ their Xmas @ Katong stall. Hee.. and Little Jonathan was just a ball of cells. now, he's a screaming ball.
character is more in nature than I ever thought it was. after seeing little johnny..
since nurture directs it to a smaller extend then I assumed it used to be, so maybe I should stop blaming circumstance for the way I used to behave.

Monday I will have to do the other prep for sch reopening:
1. packing my last sem stuff
2. confirming details for the modules im taking next sem
3. plan my next sem study timetable and tuitoin times

Tuesday I will finally have the liberty of sleeping a lil later, spend time and finish reading The Final Quest and my Armourbearer book. I saw a biography of Hudson Taylor & another book by Max Lucado which exact title I forgot. AHH. I wanna read!
so this is the greatest benefit I've got from helping set up Pastor's Library - the desire to read.

but I'm still not much of a book person. I rarely have that sustained passion when I passed about the middle of the book. LOL.

Here are some CHRISTMAS WISHES to the people I may not get to see this Xmas.

05S78 esp Chieh Hwee, Huiwen, Ying Ying, Bernardos, Pamela, Chuan Yuan, Faqeehah, Biondi, Kimberle Shen Yan Yin aka bobo. ( U still havent given me your Europe address!! It's been 3 months-.-)

RVians Goh Sixuan, Boonie koh, Desmmy, Zhenbin, Rachel Seah, Meishan Constance Pris! haha, and Jonana

the rest of the people I will see I think. which is like church people.
those unmentioned are kept in the depths of my heart. So deep I have problems recalling, due to old age and a fatigue mind.
anyone else who reads this too, HAVE A BLESSED CHRISTMAS!




this xmas I'm not giving any presents to any one.. and if I did or am going to, its just because I thought of u when I was in china's super cheap wholesale center.
my rationale is that we are all so blessed, we dont really lack anything.. so I won't give useless things to people.. but just write some heartfelt words on cards and give them out.
It's more thoughtful ok.. (last sentence directed toward people who think otherwise)

anyway, in china, I ate the equivalent amount of oranges I would have eaten in 3 years
(cos I only eat oranges during CNY)

I ate the equivalent amount of corn that I would have eaten in 1 year..
(it was served every meal!)

and I ate sugarcane fresh, just harvested from the fields.. yum yum. I never liked sugar cane but that was really nice..

I chatted with the pigs while in the toilet, they seemed extremely interested with the process of egestion and excretion. Unfortunately I could not explain urea, nervous supply of the spinchter muscles and many more theories in Mandarin.

I laughed my heart out almost everyday by joking with my funny team mate with the same name as I do. Graces cover the Earth, It's hard ever to be alone!

I saw the youth in China and had my passion renewed for local youth work.
If only I could and we could be as on fire as they are.
I also saw the infiltration of immoratlity in those young ones.
I never imagined 14 year olds roaming the streets gambling with dice and cards. It's usually uncles and ah peks i thought. But the youth overwhelm in numbers as I walked along the local roadside eateries.
and I hate the education system in China. why on earth do you want to quarantine the children and seperate them from their parents. ugh. the rationale that being able to go home will cause grades to drop is so dictatorial and irrational.
communism appears to foster unity but tears down the fundamental unit of society.

*shakes head*

Ahh..

I'll be gone from Friday 7th Dec to Monday 17th Dec.
My hp will be in singapore if you wanna SMS me any random rubbish, don't worry about being charged china rates or something. :)

Sixuan: I hope you see this. haha, refer to my last post on November. I want to book you if you are not too busy with your bf. haha, leave some time for me after Christmas! (not boxing day cos my exam results are coming out that day :( )

Kimberle: I'm not going to get to see you again till June :( I thought you would stay for Christmas :( boo hoo.. anyways, jiayou jiayou and get ur First Class Honours rankings. I'm sure you can do it! Pray haard! Study hard, play hard! Enjoy your Europe tour and take pics to update the 05S78ers! :D

ahh, and to the group of people who don't visit this space - Cornerstonians: I will be missing you guys. haha, and HAPPY BOY! :( i hope you don't forget me. Babies have short term memory cos their medial temporal gyri ain't that developed yet. hahah. whatever. Happy is a genius kid.