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Sunday, April 27, 2008

The week(s) has gone really fast. Work, dinners, cell, church stuff etc takes up all the time.

Dinner and Chillout at Leederville!


And last week, we celebrated our dear Yixin's birthday, surprising her at Carousel!
wheee!

And then AGAIN, at cell the next day.
Anwen + Ange didn't get to eat cake + take photo! OH NO. next cell!

And I got to meet up with Ariel when she was here for her Convo! Yay! It was a good catch up and i'm so glad to be able to meet her when she's only here for like 4 days! WOAH.




And then the next happening thing was Leader's Retreat at Mandurah!
I kept thinking that it was a whole church leaders kinda thing - until I went there. and gloria phua was like "saraaah, read the file! 13:30 leh." tskk.



happy anot gloria! PROCLAIM leh.

And our Southzone Group Photo! wheeee


We had a fantabulous time at retreat. We definitely had "chemistry" going. HAHA. I enjoyed it - just away from mundane things of everyday, soak in God's presence, word, worship, fellow brothers and sisters. pretty good! thanks to all who prayed for us!

Then, birthed out of the retreat, we had Southzone Cohesion Day! Wheeee. it was great fun too though the numbers were little - but i think it's really up to the people who are present to make it count and to make it fun. And i'm glad to say, that the people who were there, chose to make it fun and participated actively in all the games! Wheeee!

The start of the afternoon - where we had to think of a group name and draw a flag for ourselves! OMG. I HATE group names. I can NEVER think of one. But indeed, all the groups thought of really good ones + cheers!

Some flags + the first game. Joel fell the hardest I think (after like 10 rounds) and Gina start fall already! ahahahha!

The HARDEST GAME EVER.

Should make this game more fun by letting sabotages! Like maybe 1 player of each team can be on the field to sabotage.

Isaac cheat! ahah

Something about the yarns are the 5 cells, and then we'll all be interlinked and we'll see each other not only as cells, but as a zone, as a ministry...etc. so mushy. HAHA. all to Clifford. HAHA.




Okey, and that's the end of the photo fun.

Righteous. HAHA. What movie was that? OH. Just Like Heaven. HAHA. this spooky in-a-daze guy said righteous quite a few times with the silly look - so silly.

Honestly, I haven't been spiritually disciplined recently. God revealed to me how I was not putting Him first, how I was pushing appointment after appointment before Him, thinking I can meet Him anytime. But that always ends up with no appointment and next day appointments (but there are always tomorrows). So. I'm learning and picking up from there. At the moment, i'm loving proverbs.

And anyway, something to share!
Taken from Max Lucado's "On the Anvil"

When a potter bakes a pot, he checks its solidity by pulling it out of the oven and thumping it. If it “sings,” it’s ready. If it “thuds,” it’s placed back in the oven.
The character of a person is also checked by thumping.

Been thumped lately?

Late-night phone calls. Grouchy teacher. Grumpy moms. Burnt meals. Flat tires. You’ve-got-to-be-kidding deadlines. Those are thumps. Thumps are those irritating inconveniences that trigger the worst in us. They catch us off guard. Flat-footed.

They aren’t big enough to be crises, but if you get enough of them, watch out!

Traffic jams. Long lines. Empty mailboxes. Dirty clothes on the floor. Even as I write this, I’m being thumped. Because of interruptions, it has taken me almost two hours to write these two paragraphs. Thump. Thump. Thump.

How do I respond? Do I sing, or do I thud?

Jesus said that out of the nature of the heart a man speaks (Luke 6:45). There’s nothing like a good thump to reveal the nature of a heart. The true character of a person is seen not in momentary heroics but in the thump-packed humdrum of day-to-day living.

If you have a tendency to thud more than you sing, take heart.

There is hope for us “thudders”:
Begin by thanking God for thumps. I don’t mean a half-hearted thank-you. I mean a rejoicing, jumping-for-joy thank-you from the bottom of your heart (James 1:2). Chances are that God is doing the thumping. And he’s doing it for your own good. So every thump is a reminder that God is molding you (Hebrews 12:5-8).

Learn from each thump. Face up to the fact that you are not “thump-proof.” You are going to be tested from now on. You might as well learn from the thumps—you can’t avoid them. Look upon each inconvenience as an opportunity to develop patience and persistence. Each thump will help you or hurt you, depending on how you use it.
Be aware of “thump-slump” times. Know your pressure periods. For me, Mondays are infamous for causing thump-slumps. Fridays can be just as bad. For all of us, there are times during the week when we can anticipate an unusual amount of thumping. The best way to handle thump-slump times? Head on. Bolster yourself with extra prayer, and don’t give up.

Remember no thump is disastrous. All thumps work for good if we are loving and obeying God.

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Work wise, it's still been great, but today, I had a long meeting in the morning and I was just about to fall asleep anytime already. Think it's the morning thing + i didn't sleep early the night before la. Anyway, then the whole day was abit messed up - I couldn't even do proper calculations properly! tskk. made me look SO confused and stupid. sigh. so wells. on to the next day!

I'm craving curry. And, rochor mee. And....erms. oh wells, the rest of the things i'm going to say aren't going to be found here.

Plenty to do! Plenty to do! Gtg!

p.s. pet, i'll reply u someday k? I need time to match up to yours.
p.s.s. i miss you wronglors.

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11:27 PM


Wednesday, April 16, 2008

You are my Lord
You are my God
You're the only One
Who conquered the grave

In You I believe
Your love I receive
You'll always be my King

You are my Lord
You're the shepherd of my life
You're the lover of my soul

You are my God
Every moment that I live
Your mighty hand is doing wonders for me

(C) NCC

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This has just been on my repeat for the last few days. I really want to behave like and say that You're my King. I want to remember You as the shepherd of my life, the lover of my soul. Remind me O Lord, that everything is in You.

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Updates; work wise, it's still being great - new stuff to learn everything, getting to do more stuff now, so it's keeping me busy! First day I've skipped lunch since I've started working- i tend to just skip lunch when I get busy - cause u just save time (that's what happened quite often in Honours..) - But I doubt it'll be a problem because usually we do go for morning tea and lunch quite like on time - and everyone would just ask casually, "morning tea?" "lunch?" while walking out of the lab...and it's like almost your right to take morning tea and lunch (and sometimes even afternoon tea) - though it is your right in a way. Haha.

First team lab meeting too! We're under a bigger team, but within this immediate team, we only have like 5 people. It's quite funny though - cause my supervisor just says like the heading or topic of agenda, then my colleagues (the other RA and phD students) will just rattle off about what's happening, what they can do and stuff - and then my supervisor will summarise with the ending sentence, like a conclusion. HAHA. And our meeting was pretty fast and concise.

I went off halfway throught the meeting cause I had a timepoint in my experiment that I had to go add stuff and incubate in a different place and such - so I went out of the meeting room and back into the lab. Then when I came back, I heard my name being casually mentioned. So one of the phD students said, "We're talking about you." complete with this slanted eyes "meany" look. AHHA. she's so funny and cute.
And my supervisor said, "yeh, behind your back." haha. he's so easygoing and funny too!

And then when we were talking about dates that they were going away, the same phD student was leaving on my birthday! And so the other phD student said, "We're going to have a party when they (phD 1 and sup) leave." And I replied, "yeh, it's my birthday."

And she was like, "OH. When's your birthday!"

And then so it was revealed that it was on the day that phD1 was leaving, so phD1 went, "AHA! I knew it, that's why I got it all planned out. Couldn't miss the cake for sure."

ahah.

I just pray for favour to just pour into my work relationships and grace to manifest in every area of my life! Amen! (and pray for every leave to get approved!..heh heh)



Been also busy with loads of stuff, like cell, friends, convos, and such. Don't even have time for myself sometimes. I need a timeout. Like real soon - i'm planning it already. Photo updates:


Linus's visit

Ian's convo + Ian's parents' visit

Awaiting Ariel's photo! wheee! and some other photos along the way..

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12:50 AM