thank you so much for the advice.
i really appreciate it.
you are one of the few pple that i trust the most.

thank you (:

my gdness! it's round 2 of fastestfingersfirst. i think i almost stopped breathing when choosing my IS classes ... & NOW i feel like laughing at myself. i think i looked like some kan cheong queen or smthg. HAHAHAHA!!!

i woke up at 9am. & then i sat in front of my laptop, waiting for 10am. wah. when the time was like 9.45, i was like feeling so nervous alr lar! got butterflies in my stomache haha xD & when the time was 9.58 i was starting to panick. gdness me.

and then! it was 10am. HAHAHA. now i feel like those aunties who are queue-ing up outside a shop that has mega sale and is yet to open, & the moment the gates open, all of them rush in like mad and grabbed at anything they see. HAHAHAHA!!!

Thank God that i got into the classes i want. though i dnt noe who will be in my class lar. but nevertheless, at least i got what i wanted (:

i still feel like laughing leh!! why huh?? maybe it's to relieve the pressure that was built up inside me. HAHAHAHAH!!! weirddd.

cut my hair tdy. it's a lil shorter now. not much of a difference though. hee. but my head definitely feels lighter! haha. cos my hair is like rly super thick. even the hairdresser said so. i asked her to thin my hair. & she's funny lar. she thinned the right side of my hair alr and then she asked "怎么样? 会不会觉得你的头的右边变轻了一点?" haha.

it's 2 more wks till sch starts. 1 more wk till BAOC[business&acct orientation camp]. cnt believe how fast time has passed. gonna be choosing my IS [interdisciplinary studies] modules for yr2 on thurs. i've decided to choose Exploring Photography & Introduction to Social Psychology. hopefully i can get into this 2 classes. it's going to be the fastest-fingers-first game again i guess. though there are actually alot more other classes that i want to take like Biz Etiquette & Image, Understanding Relationships, Appreciating Films, Appreciating Literay Works etc ... but exploring photography & intro to soc. psychology are my top 2 choices. haha.

in case you're wondering what Interdisciplinary Studies is, it's actually a module that sort of teaches students like ...... enrichment stuff kinda thing. like ....things that are beyond the course that you're taking. like ... extra modules to help broaden ... yr interest i guess. something like that lar. haha. dnt know how to explain. but. one thing i know is that ... the IS modules are interesting ... in a way.... though it can get kinda frustrating when it comes to projects with lazy grp members. BUT that's a totally different story. haha. & well. it seems like yr 2's IS classes ARE going to be fun (: ha!

im currently reading this really good book, "Like the FLowing River" by Paulo Coelho. it has many many short stories inside and each story has a learning point. each time i read a story, i learnt smthg. & the author is a Christian, so some of the short stories inside talks a lil bit of christianity. very good book (:

so far, there are a few stories that are my favourite, like "The Story of the Pencil" and "The Solitary Piece of Coal"

In "The Story of the Pencil", it teaches how we should learnt to be like a pencil. There are 5 qualities that a pencil has and that we should learnt to have too.

1st quality: Like a pencil, you are capable of great things, but you must never forget that a hand is guiding your steps. We call that hand God, and He always guides us according to His will.

2nd quality: Now and then, the pencil gets blunt and thus, needs a sharpener to do a little sharpening. That makes the pencil suffer a little, but afterwards, he's much sharper. So we too, must learn to bear certain pain and sorrows, because they will make you a better person.

3rd quality: The pencil always allows the eraser to rub out any mistakes. This means that correcting something that we did is not necessarily a bad thing; it helps to keep us on the road to justice.

4th quality: What really matters in a pencil is not it's wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.

5th quality: A pencil always leave a mark. In just the same way, you should know that everything you do in life will leave a mark, so try to be conscious of that in your every action.

love this story a lot (:

the other story about "The Solitary Piece of Coal", is about that a man went to church every sunday, but soon realised that the priest seems to be always saying the same thing and so, stopped going to church. One day, the priest went to visit the man, both of them sat before a fireplace and the man tried to start a conversation, but after half an hour, he gave up trying as the priest remained quiet. Then, the priest got up from his seat and used a log to push away a piece of coal from the flame. Since there was not enough heat for the coal to continue burning, it began to cool. The man saw this and quickly pushed the coal back into the flame. The priest then got up again and said goodbye, & before he left he said to the man "However brightly a piece of coal may be burning, it will soon burnout if you remove it from the flames. However intelligent a man may be, he will soon loose his warmth and his flame if he distances himself from his fellow man. I'll see you at church next Sunday."

the treasure hunt tdy was quite a success (: praise God that He gave us a good weather and led all the glowers & soarers safely through the hunt (:

me, bonnie, kat, benben, zhenliang, minxian & billy had a fun time shopping for the presents too. haha! who wld have known that shopping in ikea cld have been so fun. esp. that uncle who raised his hand!! HAHAHA! :D make me laughed till my stomache hurt. haha! it seemed as if we went on a crazy shopping spree or smthg. hee (:



xiaoxingxing, thanks for the lil card (:
yupp. we'll always be that 4 bestfriends in life.

oh. i just bathed finish and realised that im rly sunburnt alr lar! painful leh. i can like see the tanlines on my arms, legs neck, feet ): and my face is red lar! gdness. the sun tdy is like rlllly scorching hot! i remember sitting the rides with the kiddos and my legs and arms felt pain cos of the sun shining so bright. haha. but nvm lar. worth the pain since it was fun (:

yay! Praise God! Thank God! (:
got my exam results tdy. my results are not bad. got a lot of As and Bs. overall GPA got a 3.3 ... maybe to others 3.3 isnt that good. but well, i think 3.3 is nt bad alr lar. though i was hoping tht i cld get a 3.5 ( haha! fat hope.) but well it is an improvement compared to my previous exam results.

i was quite worried for the past few wks abt my results. cos it's like the pprs are quite hard & different from the past yrs pprs tht i did. & like there are some qns that i dnt even noe what is it talking abt. so yeah. at last i can rest from all these worrying alr haha!

went to church to help take care of the kids for the one-day trip thing. went to escape themepark at abt 10am+ . gdness. it was VERY VERY VERY hot! i think i got like tanner. & gladys said that i might be getting sunburnt! haha. after lunch we went to some mushroom farm. was quite alrte lar. though it was kinda tiring though. i mean looking at mushrooms for abt 45 mins is alr enough. but to look at it for like 1hr+ , almost 2 hrs is like -_-" haha! oh, some of the aunties bouhgt loads of mushroom home. then i was like thinking. you can only keep the mushrooms for 2 wks. so how are they going to finish SO much mushrooms within 2 wks?! heh.

but overall the day trip was not bad. the kids are very adorable haha (: had a fun time taking care of them, despite the fact that we had to take multiple rides with them till me & gladys felt like vomitting. haha! (:

weell. i guess i kinda come to a decision alr ....
i think i'll not go this time round. cos there's many things to take into consideration. though i kinda feel like going still. but. well. it's alright bah.

was quite surprised that my mum is so supportive to such an extent. haha. i mean, it's skipping sch leh. heh. but come to think of it, also not say that surprising lar. cos i noe that when it come to serving God, she's very supportive of us (: rly thankful that she supports me so much. but. yeah. i guess. ive decided bah .....

我该去还是不该去呢？
我心里是非常的想要去恩典之家，但时间上又不能。
因为去的时候刚好是我 year 2 开学的时候。

mummy says if i rly want to go, i can write in to the school to apply for leave and, if the leave is approved, then i can go lor. if it's nt approved, then obviously i cnt go lar. she said so cos she thinks that usually like, first wk of sch mah, then got like yr 1 orientation, have a lot of activities, and come to think abt it, usually first wk are all lectures. so the time spent in sch is like .. 2 hrs only? .. but the worry is, what if there are like impt stuffs happening, or need to be known.. then i have to be in sch what ... aiis. howhow?

我该如何是好啊?!

the thought of wanting to go back to 恩典之家 again has been there for like abt 10 mths to a year alr. the prev time during last year december, i cldn't go cos i was preparing for exams. this time round, apparently i cnt go again cos it's the start of sch. aiis.

& i think, if this time round i cnt go .. i doubt i can go there again anytime this year. cos usually mission trips to 恩典之家 are during march/april period and oct/nov/dec period. .. and the oct/nov/dec period i def cnt go. cos, it's going to be examss soon.

真得不懂该怎么办。 i guess the only thing i can do now, is to pray, and ask God for His direction.