The Christmas and week after has been a wonderful whirlwind of activity! My life in peektures for now :)
On Christmas day, my family and I went for the healing service and it was an amazing service. Managed to pray for two ladies with different needs and I was greatly encouraged by their courage and faith in the face of illness. After that, my family and I celebrated my youngest sister's birthday at Soup Restaurant and chilled out at McCafe for a bit while my sisters went shopping! At night, went to watch The Hobbit 2 with UU at Tampines! I have to say that the movie was pleasant only because of him :p otherwise the show was wayyy too draggy, a bit sad that my treasured LOTR series has turned out like that :(
Went to attend a church wedding with UU on Saturday as his colleague was getting married! The wedding was held at Wesley Methodist Church, opposite the YMCA at Dhoby Ghaut. It was my first time at this church even though I have friends attending services there. And I got to say that the church is a wonderful mix of past and present, with vintage red brick sitting right next to a new glass wing. The only downside is that the church seems to only have a speaker at the front so that sound gets quite muffled at the back. But in any case, it was a lovely lovely wedding! Felt a bit sad that riverlife church has two center aisles, unlike the old churches which have one center aisle, so it won't be as picture perfect if couples get married at my church. But oh wells, like UU said, it's the relationship and history of the couple with the church that matters haha.
On our way down from Wesley Methodist (which sits on a hill), we spotted a huge traffic mirror and managed to snap a selfie! Haha as we were going down the steps, I realised the afternoon lighting was perfect and we took another pic! Singapore's weather has been quite lovely this past week, all cool and windy and not too sunny!
Cos we were supposed to meet the rest for teo heng around 4pm, we decided to hang around plaza sing for a while. I felt a bit bloated after lunch and my stomach wasn't that comfortable so UU suggested we get yakult drinks. Apparently, according to him, it really helps with wind in the stomach. Haha I was quite disbelieving at first cos I thought it was gonna give me stomach upsets, but surprisingly it did help a lot with the bloatedness! But I really felt like a kid again drinking Yakult! Can still remember all the times I had to beg my grandma for a yakult after meals cos it felt like such a dessert treat at that time!
Went to celebrate Ben's birthday with the SMU cell after church today and it was so sooo much fun! I've forgotten how much I love to hang out with this gang of people, with all their different crazy personalities! And we've set up a teo heng appointment for next week wheeee!
To round off the week, I got a haircut after Ben's birthday celebration! My fringe was toooo long and kept getting in the way and I felt like my hair was getting too thick so decided to trim it before CNY and my hairdresser starts inflating her prices! After the trim, my hair did feel a lotttt lighter but my mom complained that it didn't look like I had cut it -.- ahh whatever, I felt like I could have gone out onto the streets immediately after my haircut, which to me shows that it's definitely a good haircut!
"Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.” //Francis Chan; Crazy Love Upon touching down in SG during the early morning hours of Saturday, I was picked up by my boyfriend and he told me that he just found out one of his best friends has just been diagnosed with acute leukaemia. His friend had been having a persistent fever for the past week or so and he finally checked into hospital, suspecting that it may be dengue. Unfortunately, it turned out to be something far far more serious. Because the condition is acute, he has had to be warded and he will start chemotherapy in a few days' time. We visited him in hospital that night and it was kinda surreal to step into the ward and see all the IV drips and needles stuck into his arms. And I think the sheer suddenness and seriousness of this whole thing has really made us stop in our tracks and re-consider for a moment where our priorities are. More and more, I've come to realise, that our life on earth is really just one small square of a beautiful tapestry that stretches on and on into eternity, and it doesn't make any sense at all to be wholly consumed about making this small square so pretty when there is so much more ahead of me. That sometimes, the things that I esteem and hold as so important, may not really be that crucial in God's eyes. Does God really care how well I dress? Does He care about how many bags and clothes I own, what type of shoes I put on, what kind of makeup I put on my face? Does He fuss about how successful I am at work, how much money I earn? Or does He look straight into my heart and see completely what type of person I am, what kind of things I prioritize in my life? And when he sees straight into my heart, when he looks at the bits and pieces that make up my life, will He be pleased with what I have done? Will he say, well done good and faithful servant, you have fought the good fight, finished the race and kept the faith? Will he see that I have invested my life in touching people, making disciples of His, being broken for the things that he was broken for? I don't know if he will. And that scares me. Enough to want to come into his presence again and ask him to re-calibrate my heart, to re-focus my eyes to be fixed on the Cross. To be willing, always willing to do what he has called me to do.
The Christmas and week after has been a wonderful whirlwind of activity! My life in peektures for now :)
On Christmas day, my family and I went for the healing service and it was an amazing service. Managed to pray for two ladies with different needs and I was greatly encouraged by their courage and faith in the face of illness. After that, my family and I celebrated my youngest sister's birthday at Soup Restaurant and chilled out at McCafe for a bit while my sisters went shopping! At night, went to watch The Hobbit 2 with UU at Tampines! I have to say that the movie was pleasant only because of him :p otherwise the show was wayyy too draggy, a bit sad that my treasured LOTR series has turned out like that :(
Went to attend a church wedding with UU on Saturday as his colleague was getting married! The wedding was held at Wesley Methodist Church, opposite the YMCA at Dhoby Ghaut. It was my first time at this church even though I have friends attending services there. And I got to say that the church is a wonderful mix of past and present, with vintage red brick sitting right next to a new glass wing. The only downside is that the church seems to only have a speaker at the front so that sound gets quite muffled at the back. But in any case, it was a lovely lovely wedding! Felt a bit sad that riverlife church has two center aisles, unlike the old churches which have one center aisle, so it won't be as picture perfect if couples get married at my church. But oh wells, like UU said, it's the relationship and history of the couple with the church that matters haha.
On our way down from Wesley Methodist (which sits on a hill), we spotted a huge traffic mirror and managed to snap a selfie! Haha as we were going down the steps, I realised the afternoon lighting was perfect and we took another pic! Singapore's weather has been quite lovely this past week, all cool and windy and not too sunny!
Cos we were supposed to meet the rest for teo heng around 4pm, we decided to hang around plaza sing for a while. I felt a bit bloated after lunch and my stomach wasn't that comfortable so UU suggested we get yakult drinks. Apparently, according to him, it really helps with wind in the stomach. Haha I was quite disbelieving at first cos I thought it was gonna give me stomach upsets, but surprisingly it did help a lot with the bloatedness! But I really felt like a kid again drinking Yakult! Can still remember all the times I had to beg my grandma for a yakult after meals cos it felt like such a dessert treat at that time!
Went to celebrate Ben's birthday with the SMU cell after church today and it was so sooo much fun! I've forgotten how much I love to hang out with this gang of people, with all their different crazy personalities! And we've set up a teo heng appointment for next week wheeee!
To round off the week, I got a haircut after Ben's birthday celebration! My fringe was toooo long and kept getting in the way and I felt like my hair was getting too thick so decided to trim it before CNY and my hairdresser starts inflating her prices! After the trim, my hair did feel a lotttt lighter but my mom complained that it didn't look like I had cut it -.- ahh whatever, I felt like I could have gone out onto the streets immediately after my haircut, which to me shows that it's definitely a good haircut!
"Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.” //Francis Chan; Crazy Love Upon touching down in SG during the early morning hours of Saturday, I was picked up by my boyfriend and he told me that he just found out one of his best friends has just been diagnosed with acute leukaemia. His friend had been having a persistent fever for the past week or so and he finally checked into hospital, suspecting that it may be dengue. Unfortunately, it turned out to be something far far more serious. Because the condition is acute, he has had to be warded and he will start chemotherapy in a few days' time. We visited him in hospital that night and it was kinda surreal to step into the ward and see all the IV drips and needles stuck into his arms. And I think the sheer suddenness and seriousness of this whole thing has really made us stop in our tracks and re-consider for a moment where our priorities are. More and more, I've come to realise, that our life on earth is really just one small square of a beautiful tapestry that stretches on and on into eternity, and it doesn't make any sense at all to be wholly consumed about making this small square so pretty when there is so much more ahead of me. That sometimes, the things that I esteem and hold as so important, may not really be that crucial in God's eyes. Does God really care how well I dress? Does He care about how many bags and clothes I own, what type of shoes I put on, what kind of makeup I put on my face? Does He fuss about how successful I am at work, how much money I earn? Or does He look straight into my heart and see completely what type of person I am, what kind of things I prioritize in my life? And when he sees straight into my heart, when he looks at the bits and pieces that make up my life, will He be pleased with what I have done? Will he say, well done good and faithful servant, you have fought the good fight, finished the race and kept the faith? Will he see that I have invested my life in touching people, making disciples of His, being broken for the things that he was broken for? I don't know if he will. And that scares me. Enough to want to come into his presence again and ask him to re-calibrate my heart, to re-focus my eyes to be fixed on the Cross. To be willing, always willing to do what he has called me to do.
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