After so long...

My goodness, i haven't touched this blog in ages! Well after coming back to Singapore for the holidays, i haven't had much time to update this blog so i guess this would be a pretty long entry. Firstly i want to thank God that i passed all my subjects this sem and so i am officially left with one more sem! Hopefully i will be able to clear my last sem and come home for good = )

So well, what have i been doing then? Not long after i returned, i went on a family trip with my family! Its been a long time since i went on a holiday with my parents and sis, and also my first time going on a holiday with the kids. I must say that going on a holiday with the kids is a bit tougher and more tiring, but they kept me occupied as well. Not forgetting the laughters they brought to the family. If given a second chance, I would definitely want them there. Well some pics of what we did..

At the airport before leaving to Hk

Ocean Park with the family

Me and Sis

So sweet!

Waiting for some dolphin show to start...

Now at Disneyland...

At the entrance with Evan

At Tarzan's house!

Random pics we took along the way...

Victoria Peak with baby Esaius

In the train with Evangeline

Well i don't have much pics of HK this time cause another camera was used so that's it for the HK part. I can't remember all the stuff i did this holiday and it will be far too long for me to talk about everything so i shall just talk about the more significant events. Ok i admit, i am just lazy haha.

Yoke Huey's Bday. This year we gave her a surprise again. We went to Crystal Jade for dinner and Susan as usual had to be the one to lure her away. When Huey arrived her face was quite black and we were quite worried that she was unhappy to see us but of course not! Haha after some warming up the dinner was great and after our dinner we went to a open air pub at East Coast to chill. Pictures pictures again!

Our dinner at Crystal Jade..

Me and the bday gal

In the car on the way to East Coast Park...

Random pics at the open air pub...

Time for presents!

We finished off the nite by trying to take pictures by the sea. But it was too dark, so there was no view at all, but oh well, hope you had a good day huey!

I guess the next event will have to be christmas! This year i went for two parties, one with the church mates and the other with my poly friends. This year we went to Suye's house for a mini celebration. Supposed to have a theme but in the end due to some miscommunication and slow response there was no theme and it was just casual for all. That night we basically played some games like indian poker, some guessing the time game and a very simple gift exchange. I guess what made this xmas special was the catching up that we got to do with each other. Nothing filled with glitz and glamour but definitely an event filled with warmth = )

Shiwei, me and Suye- the two sweeties i will never get sick of

The folks having their pizza dinner

The chaos of gift exchanging!

The peeps happy with their presents

The gals

And finally, a big group photo, cheers!

For the party with my poly friends, we decided on a colour theme this year. Through drawing lots, there will be two people that will be wearing the same colour. And i present to you our colours of the night!

Gold


Green


Silver

Yellow

Pink

Orange

White

Black


And together the colours combine!

We also had names that we picked-again through drawing lots, on whom we are supposed to buy a christmas present for the gift exchange, and I got Colin! Well got him slippers. However, I don't have the gift exchange pics with me now so moving on to some other random pics!

Trying to figure out how we should cut the roast chicken


This is of course not all the food we had!


Our log cake, Merry Christmas!

Zhenni, me and Amy

Some games that we were playing


Me with Jiesi and Susan

If you are thinking the next event will be New Year, its not haha. I didn't go for any countdown cause i didn't feel like squeezing with the crowd that day, so i ended up at a coffee shop with leb for dinner. Nevertheless, i enjoyed it = ) So for a more recent event, it would be.... Kelissa's and Wei Lun's wedding! Finally a wedding that i attended where the bride and groom's age is near mine, and the sweetest part is that both of them are my classmates in poly. And please, its not shot gun okay. Guess everyone from my poly year one were just waiting for the day that this couple would wed. We saw them from being friends, to him chasing her, to her accepting him, and finally them getting married! So for the photo part...

Our dresses

Waiting for the feast to start

The stars of the night

Greedy Susan!

Yoke Huey and me

Our table that night

Well guess that is all the events i feel like updating. I have dragged too long until i cannot remember what i want to update! Anyways i guess what would be coming up next should be some CNY stuf? Hopefully i don't drag again *bleah* And i am going back soon! I know i am going to miss home, especially Esiaus, cause i have been taking care of him so much this holiday. Bathing him, feeding him, putting him to sleep...urgh!I don't want to think about it, off to Yee Lin's farewell/early bday celebration tomorrow!

Life is so unpredictable

My church friend is diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer after giving birth to her baby gal 2 months ago. When i heard this news, my heart sunk and tears just welled up in my eyes when i read the e mail that said "it is confirmed cancerous". Well, i am not very close to this lady but i have known her for many many years already. She is a very sweet lady-good tempered, always smiling, kind, godly and just so friendly and caring to everyone around her. She never fails to greet me with a smile when i see her around in church.

I believe this news struck her and her family harder than me. She has a two year old son, and a newborn girl that is only two months old. She just dropped from utter happiness- having a baby girl, to utter despair. Never did she expect herself to be suffering from stage 4 colon cancer i guess. Its just so unfair to her, such a kind and nice lady, but still having to suffer from such a disease. I don't see evil people(i am not talking about random people but people whom i know) getting stage 4 cancer, on the other hand, they recover from cancer. It just makes me wonder WHY? What plans does God have? How come in this world the evil prosper but the good suffer? Is it supposed to be this way? I guess i will never know and really have no choice but to see what God has in plan for her.

I really hope everyone that sees this will pray for this lady. Pray that God will be merciful to her and heal her. It really takes a miracle from God.

Rape in Congo

I just finished an article talking about how bad the rape situation in Congo and i really sympathize with the women there.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/the-rape-epidemic-at-the-heart-of-congos-darkness/2007/10/07/1191695742001.html

I don't understand why such perverted peopleexist. Don't they have wives or daughters? This just reminded me of a feature article i wrote for one of my first assignments. I was talking about child rapes after being inspired by ing ing that came back from Africa for a mission trip. She got to interact with many children in the orphanage there and sad to say, many of the young children were raped, and by their own relatives. Worse of all, they don't only get raped once by one person but ganged rape and over a period of time. Can you imagine being raped by your dad, then your uncle then some random person from somewhere? Like i don't understand why they can actually bring themselves to rape someone that is supposed to be kin to them. It's just so bloody perverted.

When i was doing research for my feature article, i also found out that the men rape young children because-especially virgins, because they are pure and can take away their disease such as Aids. How stupid can they get.

When i read this sentence in the article, "Dr Mukwege said his oldest patient was 75, his youngest three", i felt the tears forming in my eyes. How can you bring yourself to rape a child that is only 3 years old??That bloody asshole that did that seriously deserves to die. When i read this, mei mei(my 5 year old niece) just came into my mind. A child so young, and so lovable, yet they can do such a cruel act to her.

Another thing is that, i think these men are beasts, savage beasts. "Many have been so sadistically attacked that their reproductive and digestive systems are beyond repair". How do you rape someone till you can destroy their reproductive and digestive system? I really don't want to think what those men actually did to the poor women.

Dear Lord, please help to control the rape situation in Congo. Do not let the evil get their way and may you protect the women and children there and keep them sane. Grant the political leaders wisdom that they may know how to reinfore the law there, please take care of your people. Amen.

God is good!

I often wonder to myself what did i do to deserve God's blessing? I am not a perfect person, or extremely Godly, but instead sometimes i find myself to be more sinful and less deserving than others; but God never gave up on me and he has blessed me so many times in the area of studies. It makes me feel bad at times, that he is so good to me when i am so underserving. I guess there is only one word to explain, that is his love for me.

Got back another 2 of my assignments and i did relatively well for them and i really didn't expect such results. Glitches in the TV production, not enough lighting, too much head space and stuff like that but our group still did well. When i was doing this radio journ thing, in my mind i just kept thinking "gosh this is so bad, i doubt we will do well, so many mistakes i can see now, what more Amy(the tutor)", But God can make it perfect. I guess this teaches me never to doubt God. Do something, commit it to the Lord and trust him. There is nothing you can worry about after doing it cause you cannot change anything anymore so just trust = ) Maybe you could try? Doesn't have to only be on studies, but on any aspect of your life. Don't know what to do? Feeling down and sad? Pushed to desperation? Just try telling it to God, and giving him all your worries. Leave it alone and wait for him to perform a miracle. It won't take up much of your time and there is no harm trying. God bless all of you out there.