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here’s what we did as tracy’s farewell pressie.
this is a season of “farewells”. first was tracy, then it was wensing. ken and wensing just recently became parents and it’s best for wensing to join ken at emily’s cg. wensing has been in my cg since the birth of chinese ministry and she has always been such a valuable support to me. her love for people is relentless, though she denies it. she has such a good heart towards the less loveable and is very genuine towards people.
i’m excited for ken and her for their new born – luke ng and thankful to God too for this blessing. may they be full of God’s wisdom as they bring luke up as Godly parents.
within a week from wensing’s farewell, we also had a farewell gathering for wensing’s sister – soo sing. the worship ministry team came together with her ex CG for a farewell gathering on May Day.
and it was a teary occasion for me – quite unexpectedly. i’ve known wensing much longer than soo sing… and it only seems like yesterday when soo sing came to our church. i remember meeting her for the 1st time in service. she was in a brown top and she was so smiley (still is!). she accepted Christ shortly after and has been growing and serving in our church. soo sing is such an encouraging person. she lavished encouragement upon me as we serve in the worship ministry. despite all the blunders and mistakes i made, she has always been so kind (the rest of the team too 
) and encouraged me on. i will definitely miss having her around!
soo sing gave her farewell speech and kevin also shared how it was not an easy decision for her and them. i didn’t know kevin very well and for the 1st time, i heard him said so much. even soo sing affirmed that he is of quite few words actually (probably in mandarin). but i’m glad they sought God about their decision and they are at peace about this decision – that it is not brighton for this season. i wish them well and may they continue to be a blessing to their ministry in FC.
been down on flu and gastric flu for the whole week. whilst i had wished for more free time to do more LO’s, being down and out is not quite the right feeling and state to be able to do more LO’s, i realised. still, am thankful, i managed to get 2 LOs done. each LO didn’t take me very long actually as they each was a cut-paste-stick kind of job…
this took me almost forever to complete. been so busy and stressed at work. and with all my SB stash and stuff all packed away since the CNY spring-cleaning, it’s difficult to reach out for things all packed away and things that are not seen and therefore forgotton… .
i started this monday really stoned from a long weekend of lack of sleep!
but it was a great weekend with so much love in the air
i wanted to “play it low” this V day i.e. not buying or making any gifts or cards for friends – NOT bcos i want to tighten my belf but bcos i simply lack the time. as the day was drawing near, i can’t help but felt that love was in the air.
i made a last minute dash to the malls (hey, i work in orchard road, so that’s not an unusal itin in my daily life) with the focus of looking for a V day gift for B… and along the way, i was tempted to buy gifts for collys and friends too but i resisted. it was too rushed for me to make any wise decision during that short lunch break – especially when i am not done with getting B’s. in any case, i have already prepared 2 crafty gifts for emily and anthea. so… the rest will not get any gifts.
for the record, i bought B’s V days Part 1 pressie on friday; the 13th and his Part 2 pressie the following day.
cell group meeting on friday evening was very unlike the usual cos’ daniel updated the cg on his proposal to cherrie and what happened the night before. i was really amused by daniel’s account and what he did and made me think that it is a good idea to converse with B about it before it is “too late”….
daniel and gilbert have been educating me about diamond of late bcos of such occasion mentioned above. i parted ways with them on friday night with the thought that it is a good time now to buy a diamond ring for myself bcos of the economy downturn. so the guys told me!
i couldn’t meet with B after cell that night as i have yet to prepare for my whampoa cell the next day. he did sms me in the afternoon to ask if i have cell. he didn’t as it was brought forward to the day before. reached home at about 11.30pm after cell and was smsing B. he sent me a V day greeting at the strike of 12 and i was amused. after another sms from him, he called and said he was outside my door. i was definitely surprised! and how sweet of him to pass me my V day pressies!
all these years, i found myself to be someone that would not be too surprised by things (not sure if it’s that whole “cool persona” that i have) or events esp. during special occasions such as my birthday etc… but B has on a few occasion surprised me quite delightfully.
he never gave me flowers for he is 1 of those guys who deem it as a waste of money. but last year; on my birthday, he gave me a bouquet of flowers for the 1st time and i was pleasantly surprised and delighted. and really for V day this year, i had not expected him to give me flowers again or attempt to spring me a surprise such as turning up at my house at mid-night.
he came by to hand me a bouquet of flowers and a pendent with a diamond stud! ok, it is a very very small diamond but it means SO much to me! i was (and still is) pleasantly surprised and delighted! i feel so loved!
on sat, we gave out roses at our whampoa cell too i asked CY to help me check out the prices of the roses in the market. it was $2 a stalk and un-wrapped. i saw the super-market selling a dozen of roses for $15 the day before and regretted that i didn’t buy it; even though i did not have any idea who i was going to buy it for then. CY convinced me not to get them (those in the market) as they were too expensive. he called me a few minutes later and told me he managed to get 11 stalks of roses at $1 each :O [this shall be kept a secret off the blog; for reasons]. so, i told my whampoa cell that CY has bought them roses for V day. and i must say it was a wise decision (to have that idea of giving out roses) cos’ they were really happy and glowing in their faces
i came across these on friday when i was looking around for B’s pressie. i thought that was interesting. i decided to get it for whampoa cell, just for the occasion of V day
B and i went out on sat night after my bible study class and we had our late dinner at esplanade before we headed to marina sqaure to catch “new in town”. i like that movie. i think rene zellweger and harry connick jr. have pretty good chemistry. i’ve always liked rene zellweger and her movies. what i liked about this movie was also for the fact that a few of the characters in the movie scrapbooked LOL! there were a few scenes of them scrapbooking and a few scrapbook pieces were exhibited. they even used that idea in their credits at the end of the movie.
scrapped a LO for the Word given for 2009, for our church.
Isaiah 43:18-19
“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See I am doing a new thing. Now it springs up. Do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.”
finished this quite some time back but didn’t get the chance to post it till now.
this was our vocal training class held in may 2008. it was a very enjoyable time of learning together. karen tay; our instructor and now friend was and is very inspiring. may she continue to touch many lives and hearts with her lift and giftings!
this is an old photo which i thought i should try to preserve. it’s at least 7 years old.
there was a period of time where i couldn’t find time to do any scrapbook layouts. i was either really packed with alot of things to do or that i was trying to finish off some scrapbook projects which i started at the scrapbook classes & also for zhiming & korene’s wedding guestbook.
though my schedule is not getting any better (in fact, it is worst), i’m glad i still found some energy to scrapbook 2 layouts recently – stretched over a week or two to complete (each). though very tired after reaching home and having clocked in long hours, i find it energises me… it’s like a therapy
though i managed to get more sleep towards the end of last week, after about 2 weeks of accumulated lack of sleep, i was still relatively stoned and i knew it quite so when i was leading worship yesterday. everything that could have gone wrong have gone wrong – singing the wrong words, singing in the wrong keys…
i introduced a new song and it has proved to be a “tricky” song. it was a off-tempo song (don’t know what the technical terms is) and we had to keep drilling on the song… still, all in all, i’m thankful God saw us through.
i was totally zonked and drained by the end of service.
am glad for an “un-occupied” early evening that i can leisurely walk around vivo-city and catch a movie and eat my thunder tea rice!
i was craving for the thunder tea rice as i didn’t get to eat it last tues before my meeting at sally’s office. i simply love eating thunder tea rice. B enjoys it too. between both of us, we finished 4 saucer of chilli. their chilli is nice. kind of goes with the food.
watched dangerous bangkok starring nicholas cage. guess, any movie with nicholas cage can’t go very wrong?? yes/no? charlie young (hk actress) looks very thai in the movie, i must say.
managed to get some buys at vivo too. wanted to buy some more folders from daiso for my scrapbook stamps. i came across it some weeks back and purchased some to see if they serve any good and practical storage function. then a scrapbooker blogged about it and true enough, they were all gone except for 3 when i got to daiso. hopefully, they will bring in some more.
another disappointment was my attempt to buy a particular type of julie’s biscuits. i brought them once before at least half a year ago at vivo’s giant. i couldn’t find them anywhere else in a couple of other supermarkets and thought i would try vivo’s giant again. hmm…. seems like they might have discontinued it. or i can try hunting them down in the other supermarkets 
