How mature are we?

A typical weekday morning conversation with GH:


Beloved Joyce - Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and bestowed from Abba with whom there is no variation says:
(pic of a present)

Beloved Joyce - Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and bestowed from Abba with whom there is no variation says:
give u a present..

Daniel 6:23 says:
thank you!

Beloved Joyce - Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and bestowed from Abba with whom there is no variation says:
gd boy! (thumb up pic)

Daniel 6:23 says:
take picture (camera with 1 stick man and 1 stick woman)

Beloved Joyce - Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and bestowed from Abba with whom there is no variation says:
wait wait.. pretty? (1 stick woman)

Daniel 6:23 says:
pretty!

Beloved Joyce - Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and bestowed from Abba with whom there is no variation says:
okie. can take now. (camera with 1 stick man and 1 stick woman)

Beloved Joyce - Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and bestowed from Abba with whom there is no variation says:
we very bo liao hor......

Daniel 6:23 says:
a BIT BIT la

hahahahahaha.....

First Fitting II

Done with 1st fitting last evening, the skeleton of the wedding gown is out..hee..but too bad my digicam was low batt at the wrong time...:((( so had to take using my phone camera with limited memory. The laces are not up yet and also the special neckline is not done yet too..heh...but just the skeleton of it makes me excited to see the finished product! Tried on my evening gown, it looks......spanish!..haha...initially felt it looks quite drama mama..but seen the pictures took by gh, it's nice!...hee....

Just saw the quotations for the house reno......hmm.....hate to compromise but it may be a BIT off the budget...we'll see.....:/

First Fitting!

Going for my first fitting for my gown soon!..hee...finally get to see the real thing.....a lot of "what ifs" going thru my mind:

- What if it doesn't look so good on me?!
- What if i lost weight from the last measurement?
- What if the train is too short?
- What if i wanna add this and that?
- What if Gh do not like it so much?
- What if ........

Stop! My trust is in the Lord! Although I don't have any idea what I wanted before I design, and went through it with a bit of stress and unsure if the end product will look good or whether i feel comfortable and confident in it....My trust is in the Lord...We can prepare and think all we want but the glory comes from the Lord. I thank my Heavenly Father for the glory!

Having kids is no joke!

Just last entry I was so excited that I could play with my nieces when my sis comes over for confinement period....now i'm not so sure...my niece is such a hyperactive baby that she needs attention as long as she is awake and she usually sleeps after 11pm almost every night. Gosh, it's really no joke man...nice o play with for the first max 2 hours...then i'm thinking to myself "aren't you tired, can pls go to sleep sleep plssssss" i still love my little niece who prefers to be carried around and even if she chooses to crawl around, you need to move along with her so to ensure she does not topple anything or hit her head against any sharp table edges...

Some of her likes and dislikes:

She DOES NOT like the playpen.
She LIKES my room! (got flowers from GH...dried ones...still can't bear to throw. hee..Rebecca pronounces it as 'fowwer')
She LIKES me! :)) hee...she laughs whenever she sees me home
She dislikes being stopped when she wants to move away (makes a quick scream)
She likes my silly singing (she thinks my singing is a joke and laugh at every silly self composed song i sing to her eg. I'm a drypers kid~~ di~di~di~di~~hee)
She likes being a tyrant (the floor is full of traces of her broken pieces of paper she tear from magazines)
She likes bathing and dun mind water being poured over her head..she loves it!
She likes her granny and grandpa...crawls to them and sleeps in their arms
She dislike having to wait till her turn to get milk milk from mummy (Rachel is her competitor to that)
She likes to steal dinner from my plate...(she crawls to me and says "mum mum"..i always have to share dinner with her, she takes 1/10 and i take the rest..:P)
She likes to show her index finger and shake it when you say "Rebecca nono!"
She dislikes her mummy's own formula of meals for her


Though fun to play with but when she starts to throw her tantrums.....Gosh! I love playing with little babies but when you are tired and just need some rest, she really becomes a nuisance...especially so with Rebecca, who is a very active and a little baby gal who fears almost nothing....she even plays and step on little bugs. Well, she indeed is quite a joyful bb afterall...

Little Rachel has arrived!

yoyoyo...haha..attended a secondary school friend's wedding on Wed afternoon..a grp of us used to guess who will be married off first and the unexpected is the first to get married off first..hehe..but i always tot the unexpected might be the first so i'm right! :)) ..spend my the rest of my off day shopping and having latte and fries at Macs Marina Sq alone reading newpaper, killing time before my choir pract in the evening. Had a loonng practice cos Bob Fitts gonna be in town. When i went home, my mum told me my sis just went to hospital...and at 1plus am....Rachel has arrived! yeay! my 2nd niece! I love Rebecca and i know i will love Rachel too! :)) Went to visit my newborn niece yesterday and she is soo pretty and cute! i really feel like kissing her rosy cheeks, so have to refringe myself from doing it! Oh man, i forgot Rachel's share of present when i was in HK...:( I feel ike buying her so many nice clothes now...yeay!!! my sis is coming my place for confinement so i get to play with Rebecca and Rachel! so so happy!!

Sorry friends, i'm going home early everyday! :P

HK Trip

Supposed to post this some time ago...network was down....

Welcome to my monthly update...hee..:P Just came back from my company's trip to HK last Monday and it was such a short trip that i just spend the 2 full days i got there to shop, eat, shop and eat with my colleagues. I din even wanna waste my time spending one whole day at the HK Disneyland...hmm not that i do not like Disneyland but maybe not this one in HK, but i will sure to visit it on my next trip there just prob to see if i can visit all Disneylands in the world! :) I shan't comment on the hotel we had to settle for due to the overwhelming visitors to HK for some huge dunno wat convention/exhibition. :( It was ...hmm...tiiinnnyyyy room and behind us is the temple street which uh hem...is the red light district...anyways, fanciful billboards really give life to this city! This trip is too rush and too full of shoppings...hee...so my next trip will be a more sight-seeing trip and hmm...maybe somemore shopping depending on season..heh..After a tiring flight back, it was nice to see my darling again at the airport! :)) i proudly showed him my buys from HK when we are back to my place...

Me: see!..these are for u!, nice? these are for my father, this bag is for my mum, this is for my bro, nice rite? and thesess are for me!..kekeke

GH: hmmm.....ok...ya...hmmmm...nice...thank you....hmmmm..ok...ok..ok....hmmm (man of few words)


:))

Worship

Managed to stepped into overflow when worship just started on Thursday. Had a tiring day and ask God "what to expect in this svs?". I like to go svses with expectations and when you are ministered in the exact area, i know it must be God! I felt a strong sense of God presence as i worship (even in overflow), evertime when this happens, i will just somehow breakdown with tears in his presence..even when i'm singing in choir. It's as if i'm in His embrace and i can just pour out to Him. The last time i cry while worshipping on the platform was pretty long ago...i still remember gh was in the svs but we were not together yet and he smsed after that thinking i wasn't feelin well...oh well...btw, he still din know till today. :P Anyways, as i was worshipping, God just ministered to me and said " do you know everytime you worship, you are fearing Me? To fear the Lord is to worship Him and How then do you fear/worship the Lord?" I just replied in my heart " Yes, this is worship!..To sing praises to you!" We are like the modern days Levites, using instruments and voices to worship Him and lift Him up. The last song we sang was "I Exalt Thee"...during this song, God spoke to me again and said " Do you know as I am exalted in your life, now that i'm in you, you and your works will be exalted with Me as well?" The meaning of exalt is to raise in rank, honor, power, character, quality, etc.; elevate. I will be elevated from where I am with Him! Thank you Daddy God! I'm awed by this. During the sermon, Pastor Prince again emphasized that to fear God is to worship him and lift Him up.

Btw, recent sermons ever since Pastor Prince is back really spoke to me. :))

Finally Finalized!

More updates on my wedding prep! :P If you are bored/sianz by my wedding prep posts, it's just too bad cos that's my season now. :P Finally we have gotten our house keys last Fri!!!!! Our appointment with HDB was 810am and we were there slightly before 8am, eagerly looking at the officers slowly streaming in for work. We are apparently one of the earliest there. hehe..everything after that was smooth and fast. We managed to go for breakfast at Macs! We finally get to see our house after 6 months of waiting! We have a very spacious living rm, small kitchen, 2 small bathrms (brrr), a big svs balcony, 3 rms and 1 study area. :)) I'm just soo glad we got our own home. I used to wish to move out of my house and stay alone somewhere so that i can hang out everytime till late late and not kana scoldings from parents or mum repeatedly calling me on my mobile...hehe..i repented already....since now i have my own rm at hm, i'm happy in my little corner...but i do feel that at times my mum will purposely call out to me when she sees me slowly creeping into my corner so that i could spend some time with her..but once the phone rings...hehehe...i'll be in my rm again.

Gh and I just placed our deposits with the bridal studio and hotel too. Yes, i have decided on my bridal place..and am going with maragret brides..Like many designers, she just design the gowns for the bride-to-be and the rest of the services in a normal package are attached from other places...so we have to decide on the photographers in her list. For hotel, we are going for Oriental and it will be a lunch affair. :) After paying off all these deposits and knowing more payments to be made for upcoming stuffs, we really need God's blessings in this area man..He is our Provider and He has done such a good job for me and Gh...:)) Thank you Daddy!

Sidetrack a bit, Pastor Lawrence was preaching on the gospel of Christ at BS and he mentioned that everyone is different and no one can be like you. There is not going to be a person who will ever go thru the exact life that you been thru b4, no want is the same, everyone is unique...it reminds me that we are not like wat those horrorscopes :P who tell us if u are born in this month, you are this personality and that personality...we can nv stereotype pple because God made each and everyone of us unique in his own eyes. We are all pleasing to Him, so never take those things seriously...anyways, it was nv true for me..hehe..

Shop Shop Shop!

Been bz with bridal shopping these days! Gosh! i'm just abt 9 months away from my wedding day. Gh and I went to a few bridal shops and as usual, being lazy, I didn't make any appointments :P despite their website telling us to make appointments..hee..we were "lucky" with Maragret Brides, Silhouette and Amanda Lee. Managed to meet with the designers and got some advices. Tried a few pieces with Silhouette and Amanda Lee. We din get to meet the designers at Silverlining and Ritz Couture...hee..In the meantime, we got a letter from HDB for us to go collect the keys on 1 Sept! Yeay! But i want to settle bridal stuff before we collect the keys so I started to get a bit anxious abt who to go with.

Some thoughs about the different bridal studios (for my record..keke):

- Maragret Brides: 1st meeting with her 2 weeks ago was talks about her packages and felt that she was observant to point out nicely some areas of concern - in another words, frank about me. GH likes her frankness and was quite impressed by her la. I decided to make a 1st serious appointment with her yesterday to talk about designs. She showed me some designs and tried 2. I think i really like laces..which btw is her specialty. :))

- Silhouette: 1st meeting with designer and she let me tried on 4 gowns. She is friendly too and did a budgeting for us so we know roughly how our package will cost us. she reckoned I go for something tha show my square shoulders. She called and follow up with me for a serious appointment with her. Quite like but considering.

- Amanda Lee: 1st meeting with her and tried on 2 gowns. She is approachable and even did a sketch for me on the spot for my wedding gown and evening gown. Her style is more on the drama kind. Liked her list of photographers. Hmm..nice and very good service but may not be my style to carry her designs.

- Silverlining: appointment is coming Fri :)

- Ritz Couture: appointment is today evening :)


After the 2nd appointment with Maragret, i was like a confirmation that I liked her style. And I feel that different designers has their different views in gowns. Like Maragret, she knows where are the things to take note when designing my gown and have a different views on me with the one at Silhouette. I am still shopping and Silverlining might be a last stop before any decision and to give further confirmation on the one i had in mind.. :P

Tired Out

Gonna go meet my uni friends have a post birthday celebration for a friend. Looking at my last post on counting my blessings, I believe i have been very blessed since i'm saved. But I seemed to hear quite a few not so gd news from within the family and even from close friends ard. I do not doubt that i'm still blessed becos my blessings does not come frm the circumstances ard me but what Christ has done to purchased for me this blessed life. But nonetheless, i do get affected by these news esp when it's happening to my own family members and friend's family. I get a bit discouraged with what's happening but it does not affect my belief that God still loves me, and know very well He is not behind this, just feeling a bit frustrated with the fact that these things are happening. Plus the fact that i felt i have not been constantly feeding on the Word. Although i understand that by being constantly in the Word does not qualify me to the goodness/grace/favor from God but only through the Christ, it does not make me feel that i'm in the flow with Him. God knows my greatest hope or should i say hope"s". :P i have placed these hope"s" in Him. I do not know how these can be done but I trust that He will place me at the right place at the right time to say the right things and cause all things to work together for good. :)

Well, i'm still really blessed. Just did my quarter review with my boss and i have surpassed almost all targets and the one i did not surpass was with valid reasons which he understands, so my overall performance is pretty good for the first half of this year, in fact, in his own words, those targets for me are not easy to have met. Imagine my this year's target was doubled that of my last year's, and so that means i met and surpass my whole of last year's target within these 6 months. Woo hoo! God is good! Praise Jesus and All glory to Him. I know that God has given me lots of favor and without Him, it is impossible to have done this. I remember "complaining" after my last year's review saying how to meet this year's proposed target, now it seems possible. I am gonna leave it to God to ordain my steps to success! :D God will prosper me and continue prospering me till i'm very prosperous in every area. *heh..sounds familiar?..*

Ok! time to go meet my friends!

God loves me!

I can't believe I just deleted away my post....argh...it's ok then....i'm blessed..I was talking about Thursday's BS message. Pastor Lian was preaching and it was really good. 9 souls were saved. Do not get me wrong. I do not measure the quality of the message by the amount of pple saved. It's not a number game anyways.

It is so easy for us to focus on things that we do not have and get lost in it. God has blessed me so much and there are times I don't really focus on them. so what do I have?...

- I have blessed family. I love my nephew and niece. And 2 more on the way! Woo hoo!
- I have a blessed relationship with my hubby-to-be! We DUN really quarrel and sometimes I will think to myself " Is this normal?..Are we too peaceful?" heh :P
- I have a blessed job. I have got so much favor and blessings in this job and have been surpassing targets. All glory to God. And I think I may have surpass this year's target within 6 months...amazing!..IT MUST BE GOD!
- I'm blessed with very good friends whom I know I can depend on
- I'm blessed with my wedding prep. Pple just come to me and share with me information and recommend me their bridal studios. I may even be able to get discount if I mention their names...:P hee...but I'm not gonna do that. I trust God for His provision!
- And many more...hee...even small blessings..like i always managed to get lifts from choir friends after pract somehow...:))

That is how much God loves me! :)

Served at thurs BS and Pastor Lian preached on a good message, 9 souls saved. Praise the Lord. Dont' get me wrong, i do not measure the quality of the message by the number of souls saved. it's not a number game anyway. But I thank God for every soul saved as they are all precious in God's eyes and I believe the message speaks to each of the them or touched them in a unique way.

I really thank God for what I have today and though there are times where i slipped into grumbling to God for what I do not have. It is time I stop focusing of what I do not have and start focusing what I have. So what do I have....

- I have a blessed family. I love my nephew and my niece. And 2 more on the way! Woo Hoo!
- I have a blessed relationship with my hubby-to-be! We DUN really quarrel at all and sometimes I even tot to myself, is this normal? Are we too peaceful?..heh :P
- I have a blessed job. I can really see the blessing and favor of God upon this job and all the targets I managed to surpass are really by the grace of God. All glory to Him. I think i may have met my whole year target within 6 months...amazing...must be God u know.
- I'm blessed with very good friends around whom I can depend on.
- I'm blessed with my wedding prep...somehow pple just come to me and provide me with informations and recommended their bridal studios to me. *and if i mention their names, i can get good rates supposedly :P..hee but I trust God for provision.
- And many more! Every little blessing along the way counts...like the train came just when i reach the platform...i get lifts from choir friends after practs every week or my darling come fetch me (since pract venue changed to Kallang about 3 months ago, i only travelled back on train twice!)

I can go on and on and on..... just to remind myself how much God loves me. He takes care of me and will never fail me. I say all these because I was recently focusing on some of the things that I don't have and it sort of bothered me a bit, so Thursday's message just set me free and put me back on the right perspective of God's love for me again. He shed his blood for me to have all these blessings today. There's no greater love than this. For those things that I do not have yet, He knows the perfect timing to give to me. I have a blessed life and do not have to look at my shortcomings or what I do not have again. I'll just rest it at Jesus's feet. He knows what is best for me. My only prayer to Him is to always put me in the conciousness of His love for me.

Blessed Birthday!!

Special Day

This is the day the Lord has made. And on this very day in 1981, the Lord God of Heavens brought forth a very special girl to this earth. A blessing to those around her - a very unique blessing to me in particular. This person is none other than my dearie, Xiwen!!

On this special day, here's a little poem:

A breathe of God, the Most High God
Is she who was born this special day

A welcomed dawn that brought the light
A loveliness set in my sight

A refreshing dew to the morning grass
A breathe of life to the dust

I raise my hand to thank my Lord
For this special girl that He has brought

And on this day, i just want to say
Thank you for your love
A Blessed Birhday!

In His love, the Wise One

A poem my darling wrote for my b'day! He posted it in his livejournal and expects me to discover it. Of course i did not...heh...so he has to show me when i complained this morning that the whole world has wished me but him. :p Hee! Happy Happy day! I thank God for the blessings in my life and more to come! Met up with Cal and KC for dinner on Fri evening. Had a simple yet sweet celebration with my darling on Sat at a restaurant called Bliss at Punggol Park, nice scenary though it drizzled a bit. Before this, I had a whole day of activities (worked half day, music min workshop cum rehearsal at rock and rushed down for baby elyssa's b'day party - her birthday is same as mine...ok..just 24 years apart :P) After dinner, darling prayed over me and i was too worn out...but happy ;) He went back to catch his first England's game in the World Cup and i'm off home to catch my sleep..

Tiresome Weeks!

I can't even rem when was the last time i wrote about something here so it must been a long time since i last blogged. I have been so tied up with work and stuff *screams* and not really cos of wedding prep since gh and me has not exactly got into the full swing at it. It's been a sickly period of time in the office when everyone starts falling sick one by one. Everyone is bzbzbz and many pple in my mind i wanna catch up but can't find time to. Anyways, here's the series of events that i remembered took place:

- celebrated zl's birthday 2 weeks back with a super duper late steamboat dinner cum supper at marina. We only started eating close to 10pm..and catching a lousy late nite thriller show after that. i rate it 0.5 star, 0.5 for the amazing effort to come up with such crap :P

- Got the chance to vote this year under Sem GRC..i'm the obedient singaporean if you know what i mean..hehe..so dun ask me who i vote for..sshhh

- Went for Steven Curtis Chapman concert last week. Awesome concert. I have never really heard his songs before but having heard the stories behind each song he wrote..they must be very annointed. He looks young for his age and have such lovely family of 6 children (3 own + 3 adopted). Cool..

- gh and i treated my parents to a mother's day dinner last fri and shopped with them for a while before we continued on for our err romantic date in the threater watching MI3..

- served at the indoor stadium. Saw the mother day's gift...very nice and classy photo frames..but too bad i'm not a mother yet..went for late lunch and to gh's place for mother's day dinner...was too tired to do anythng after that...

- Too sick but still managed to crawl to cg for some refreshments from heaven..:P

So see! nothing on wedding prep...yet....and of course many things in between that makes up those tiresome weeks....The Lord is my strength and His strength is made perfect in me!

Charismatic God

I was at a negotiation course yesterday and the instructor was talking about factors to consider in a negotiation and one of which is power. Power also includes charismatic power - meaning that there are some people who has the ability to draw people and he followed by asking " like city harvest, you know city harvest?" Then one of the participants answered:"ya, the one in suntec, u know u know" I was so tempted to correct her but did not. But at this time the instructor said" yaya" I was like "wat?!" and after that i think he meant NCC actually. He was trying to give an example that it is pastor's charisma that constantly draws the crowd to him over the years. My colleague then made a very good point saying "but how long can the charisma power last?" I agreed with him and i was thinking to myself that hey! ya, how long can a person's charisma last? Our church is able to grow to this size over the years is definitely not of pastor charisma alone. I don't deny some may find him interesting and funny, but over time when rubber meets the road, his jokes can't deliver you, it's all about Christ. He is the one who has the charisma and the ability to deliver you out of your situations. My God is a practical God and He knows what is best for me, He is not only charismatic, but He equipped me with the strength and the power to do what i do today and to be who I am today. I'm righteous definitely not by my own works but by the finished work on the cross.

He followed by telling us there are 4 types of people and everyone will definitely fall into one of the categories. Dominant is self explanatory, Influencial are friendly people who tries to make friends and not enemies, compliant people are inflexible and steady people are indecisive people (yes!, being indecisive is steady?!). I think i'm a mix of steady and influential..maybe more steady...literally..hee..but i know i'm Christ-like. As He is so am I in this world. That was what was going through my mind..very spiritual rite?..keke..

My righteousness, my holiness
Emmanuel living in me - yes He is my righteousness and lives in me! :)

1st Entry in April

Just realised that I have not updated my blog for almost 2 weeks and the last one was in March. Was bz at work as usual. It's 7.40pm now and I'm still in office. Just want to share a quick testimony of God's goodness! My boss sent me an email on my quarterly performance this year and it has been pretty good. I have even covered the whole year's target within first 3 months on one of the categories and exceeded my quarterly target for another. This year indeed is a year of acceleration for me. Although i have been complaining to myself about the work and stuff and feeling that this job is mundane yet stressful. My yearning towards the next public hols has increased tremendously for the past few months. Nowadays, even taking one day leave from work is not really much of a rest cos I have to attend to so many things even when I'm on leave, emails, calls and blah blah...Even my boss realised he can't do without me...haha..so he decided to make sure i have a good backup while i'm away..my account has expanded and it's overflowing now. Recently have been asked to form a team for my account so as to ease my load. So now besides doing the same things (recruitment) that I have been doing, i have added responsibility to oversee the team and evetual performance..hey! that's more work ok!..argh..ok! time to go home!

Found Something!

I was just too bored and tired after lunch, so decided to surf the net for a while. And when i did a search on "John Chew" with google like what i like to do with people's names and found this excerpt of an article from ST Recruit online published on 11 Jan 2003..heh..:

"The new face of HR

Graduate: John Chew
Age: 24
Company: Oracle Corporation Singapore Pte Ltd
Designation: HR consultant

Previously attached to Oracle in his second year of the three-year degree programme in HRC, Mr John Chew is now a full-fledged employee of the company.
Though Nanyang Business School students had a choice of six specialisations, including Banking & Finance and Information Technology, Mr Chew chose HRC because HR outsourcing at the time, was “really hot”.
The new HRC course, he said, adopts an integrated view of HR. Its core subjects allow for better exposure to HR as opposed to the rules-and-regulations type of approach in the previous HRM course.
That said, the transition from classroom to office was “not a bed of roses”.
No matter how much the role is evolving, he pointed out, an HR practitioner still cannot get out of administrative duties, for example, chasing for approvals and evaluations.
Currently at Oracle, Mr Chew is tasked with maintaining the People Developer standards of the company.
Though the American multinational is a People Developer-certified company here, there is no resting on one’s laurels.
As Oracle is a People Developer which monitors staff development, Mr Chew has to keep tabs on who goes, and who is due for, training because returns on training are measured.
“I have to make sure that the training that takes place in Oracle is up to scratch.”
Though barely a year on the job, Mr Chew believes that HR is important and challenging at the same time.
“You need to attract the right kind of people, enhance their welfare and motivate them, all at the same time. And good HR systems cannot be copied blindly.”

This article first appeared in ST Recruit on 11 Jan 2003. "

keke...guess who is John Chew. :P

Wedding Prep 2

Last week was bz week. bz with work, bz helping sis on her new "biz" (practically running ard like mad near work place, orchard and bishan to distribute goods during lunch and after work). After my last distribution last friday, it was phew! Ended up in Bishan so met up with gh for dinner and some little shopping trip there. Bought shoes again! heh..Oh some updates on our wedding plans:

- Went to meet up with Oriental Account Manager for weddings and she took us on a quick tour around the ballroom and formally introduced the details like how the stage backdrop is like there, where the stage can be placed, where are the places where the march in can be done, what floral deco they provide for the surroundings and on the tables, wat colour table cloth we can use and is head straight to an open cafe for further explanation on the menu, how we can mix and match the dishes, blah blah blah...everything was done within half an hour i think. how do i feel about her? hmm...nice but too formal..however, minus that, i really like the place. The ballroom is fan shaped with the width a bit narrow but still not too bad.

- We may just go with a lunch wedding as we find it better for us and the guests too! see, we are so thoughful, so please show your appreciation with big amount ang baos ya! :P big money big money! heh..

- i find we are not like the kind who goes around hunting for hotels, Oriental is the 2nd hotel we explored after intercontinental and we have more or less come to a conclusion. Although we did make a trip down to Mariott to take a peep in the ballroom, we are still keen is Oriental. :) We may just go ahead with that.

- We got our joint bank account on Monday! i was on leave and gh took half day. we went to the nation's preferred bank, feeling all excited abt it, not knowing we had to wait 1.5 hours just to do a 15 mins procedure to open the account. gh was so tired that he just slept on the sofa in the bank...eh...hee..

- Did more wedding prep talks with 2 other abt-to-be-married church friends, 1 in mar07, another in apr 07 and mine in may07! we were serving in choir all 4 svses on sun and was just talking all about weddings, challenges and all. so exciting rite? haha..i realised we were sitted on a same table as some young mothers in choir and it is obvious they were engaging in their baby talk and 3 of us in our own wed talks..:)

So much for weddings...wow! more wed talks and updates very soon! so exciting so exciting!!! and yes, time to grab some interior design mag/books for my new home. Still some months away towards key collection but should do some research now. But still at rest and moving with the Holy Spirit. Favored everywhere we go (which i do see it manifesting during the prep - so much help offered) and having an enjoyable journey, not forgetting to pah tor once in a while. Alrite, i'm seeing double image now...too tired to continue...till the next entry...blessed week. :))

Dry and Drained...but still Loved!

I realised i have been neglecting the Word for quite a while now. Besides midweek and sun svses, i practically have my bible in the bag to sorta add some weight to it so it dun seem empty. Everytime i wanted to pick it up on my way to work, i will choose to rest my eyes thruout the journey. With Pastor putting up verses on the screen fo r us, opening te bible during svses is rare and everytime i felt that the verses is good and since i stopped my note taking for quite sometime, i will tell myself to rem the verse and read it up again when i go back but it never happened :( and i just forget those verses. I have not been putting quality time in the Word. The most i will only quickly read thru the proverbs for the day online and tt's about it. Even if that doesn't alter God's love for me and his promise to bless me, it is not an excuse to just leave reading the Word to the last or only when challenges comes along. In fact, I'm still very loved and is enjoying the blessings frm Him. But i'm not refreshed, i'm like bzbzbz.....and feeling so tired....hee..but i'm so glad i'm still very blessed! Work is bz but very blessed!


blessed blessed blessed but dry dry dry!

Wedding Prep 1

Has been a pretty bz past week. Some quick update on the wedding prep. Gh and i finally applied and got our house. We will be getting the keys within the next 3-6 months time. We got a big place for a reasonable price! Praise God! Jesus is the Lord of the house and He shall provide for everything to build the house and our family. It was a pretty stressful week while deciding on the house. Dun get me wrong. Gh and I had a restful time during our house hunting and we both decided on that particular unit based on the peace we had while exploring the area. It's actually just across gh's parent's place and next to the LRT. We had a fair bit opinions and challenges while seeking for approval but we went ahead anywayz. Well, it is the people staying there that makes a difference. We are God's beloved and our blessings are from Him. We are happy and excited about our new home. At least for me, i'm excited about our home although i still do not have an idea how i want it to be done up. hee..That's first step for our prep. The next thing we are focusing on is the venue for our big day! We had a few in mind to explore and once the desision is out, the theme of our wedding will be revealed too!! keke...Lord, give us wisdom and open the right doors to us in the process.This is really a once-in-a-lifetime experience. I know i'm going to see the grace and lovingkindness of God in this whole process! We will also rem to take time out of our prep to spend quality time with each other. We love because He first loved us! :))

Time Flies!!

Pretty bz week and madness yesterday afternoon..slightly late for choir and realised even more late comers later on...Choir has grown or at least there are a lot of sops now that soon the chairs for sop section is going to extend out of the room..hee! Anyways, just realised this week is coming to an end soon and it's really just a twinkling of an eye. And also realised i'm going 25 this year! Time really flies man!

Told Leedon (his msn nick) about my wedding next year and he is going to attend my wedding;)..haha..he said he is starting to save for my BIG ANG BAO. Wonder when is his wedding coming...his classic reply is always " No money le, how to get married? get married very ex nowadays le." I pity his galfriend..and the FACT that he is earning more than me!..just that he is doing the most boring job on Earth - programming. He was blasting me with all the info on house loans and CPF stuffs for housing and blah blah...complicated stuffs and i just assume my darling gh knows all those. I was supposed to cut and paste what he said in that portion and show it to gh just in case he doesn't. Forgot abt that...it's ok, i trust God! Gh and i are making our first visit to HDB Hub on sat to starting hunting for flats! so exciting!! And finally collecting my beloved ring too! :D

okies! Too excited to continue. ..More updates later! :)

Season For Love and Proposals!

So bz this few days!!!! Stealing some time to do some update. Went to watch this Korean show, Season for Love, with my then bf now finance ->amen to this but it's supposed to be fiance, keke...gh laughed at me :(. The poster looks like it resembles Love Actually but to our dismay, the endings for all couples are sad. I just came out and said "What a typical Korean show....". How "nice" to watched such movie a day before proposal. Gh just complained how sick the director is to create such endings - He prob felt it was such a wrong choice of movie to watch that nite. hee! Darling gh prosposed to me last Sat!!!!! So happy!! So many proposals within 1.5weeks...first is zy & faye, then is A&K, followed by me&gh and J&W. so happy for them too! :)

Short recap of the proposal:
- a week b4, started receiving hand-made cards from gh, one a day
- Wed is music and sound ministry gathering for me, knowing i wasn't at hm, gh went to seek my dad's blessing
- mum knw it later when she is back from work, i'm back from gathering, mum slipped intentionally, saying gh came. my mum calls gh "my friend". in front of him is "john ah"
- i sorta knew but din wanna probe. next morning, mum can't take it anymore. asked me " i think "your friend" talked abt marriage le, u wanna get married now ah?" my ans "eh..dun know la" (just to brush her off)
- fri nite gh arranged flowers to be delivered to my place together with famous amos cookies which i din even touch but was emptied when i came back the next day. hahaha
- sat morning dad decided he can't take it too so told me his conversation with gh and tell me to think it over so that when he proposed i would have made my decision
- went botanical garden for valentine's day lunch at Halia. Nice food! I had peranakan style pasta with laksa sauce and clams
- gh wanted to go rainforest (intended to proposed there), i was scared off by a giant lizard at the entrance. He dropped the idea
- toured ard the place and finally i was too tired to walk. gh found a spot to rest. Took ot the last card, he asked me to look out for something in all the cards.
- after some time, finally realised first word of every card eventually formed " MARRY ME"
- giggles and ring was out!
- proposed and i agreed (i think i was being easy on that) ;p
- put on the oversized ring (He knows my ring size but tink too many skinny fingered ladies was being proposed so no stock for my size, have to go back do resizing - i miss my ring now!!!)
- went for concert after that, enjoyed it! :))
- took pix of my ring so that i can look at it whenever i misses it while it goes thru the resizing - i miss my ring!!


The difference now is we have to start planning for this and that now. I'm going to enjoy the process!! btw, i told some of you that it's gonna be Jul next year as we wanted the date 070707, but the super duper kiasu couples in church has booked them even earlier than us, so we decided to bring it fwd to hold it at our 2nd anniversary in May which happens to be a Sat! :)) so happy so happy!!

The Battle Belongs To The Lord!

In heavenly armour we'll enter the land
The battle belongs to the Lord
No weapon that's fashioned against us shall stand
The battle belongs to the Lord

We sing glory and honor
Power and strength to the Lord
We sing glory and honor
Power and strengthh to the Lord

The power of darkness comes in like a flood
The battle belongs to the Lord
He's raised up a standard, the power of His blood
The battle belongs to the Lord

When your enemy presses in hard do not fear
The battle belongs to the Lord
Take courage my friend, your redemption is near
The battle belongs to the Lord

yes! The battle belongs to the Lord! That was what Pastor Prince preached about in his short speech during the music and sound ministry gathering at Penang Place last night. As you are faithful to your calling and pressed on even though sometimes external factors may be an obstacle to cause you to rethink if you should continue to serve. Fear Not! The battle belongs to the Lord! We do not serve out of convienience but with the heart to glorify Jesus. Only when your heart is at the right place then our Abba Father can blessed us with more. We are blessed to be a blessing. It's common that while it's turn for us to serve, we seem to feel tired or "dun feel like serving le". We are not moved by feelings because they can change by external factors but with the heart for God. I'm usually tired when i was about to serve or have to go for choir pract, but when i am on the platform worshipping Him, i just love it!

A part of something i wrote a while ago while i was too bored at work..hee..the rest is really just crap.
"I will only use my gifts that are bestowed upon me by You in Your Kingdom because You are always faithful even when I may not be."

This is why i went back choir and will always be the reason why i stay there. :)

As He is so r we in this world!

Happy Lunar New Year! Time really flies. Before you know it, another year has passed. Had the usual steamboat reunion dinner. The difference is the new addition to the family. Little rebecca, my 2nd sis's bb joined us for the dinner. Another new bb coming this year cos my eldest sis is pregnant for 3 months now, so there will be another new member to the family in the next cny! Yeah! Served in church on 1st day of cny at the indoor stadium. The message is good - "As Jesus is, so are we in this world!" As Jesus is at the right hand of God, so are we since we are in Him. As He is rich and healthy, so are we. These are usually what we wishes one another during this festive period. And all these (whatever u desire to have), we have because that is what Christ has purchased for us at the cross. Amazing rite? :)

After the svs, went for my first cny visiting at gh's place. No visiting in M'sia for me this year. My sisters, bro-in-graces, little nephew and niece came over to our place. Dearie came over to pay his visit too. I just had fun playing with my nephew and niece this new year. Alrite, tt's all for now folks! Gong xi fa cai, bu bu gao sheng, nian nian you yu, xin xiang shi cheng, tian tian kuai le.

Human Pride vs Pride in the Lord

Was reading Psalm 106 and it was on the rebellion of the people in the wilderness during Moses times and how God has showed His mercy towards them time and again. It dawned on me that those people back then did not let the revelation of God's love sink in them. To think that God delivered them from the hands of the Egyptians and has been their provision along the way, they still rejected Him and turned to idol worshipping and ignorantly boasted in their own ability to keep the law (for my non-believer friends reading this, it's the famous ten commandments). Such prideful attitude and I'm talking about human pride. Such pride gives you the disillusion that only by your own flesh that you can cause things to be the way you want it to be. Such pride that cause you to be closed up to others and always be on your toes. Such pride that cause you to appear strong on the outside to hide away the real you. I knew it because I was there and still there sometimes. When the love of God is not rooted in your hearts, it is easy to fall back to human pride, acting as if God has not redeemed you, rejecting His love and promises to you, rejecting the finished work on the cross. On the other hand, when we have the constant revelation of His love for us, we can then boast in the Lord that we have everything because Jesus lost everything on that cross. We can boast that we are accepted in the beloved because Christ was rejected by God at the cross. This is boasting and havin pride in the Lord. Do you really know how much Jesus has suffered to give you what you don't deserve today? That was something that I caught on my train ride to work and even as I was typing this. It also dawn on me that there are times I was not letting the love of God to fill my heart, causing myself to try to hide away my weaknesses for some reason. I'm not there yet but I still thank God that for whatever small revelation of His love i have today, I experience tremendous blessings in every area even if I don't deserve them. God really loves you and He is waiting for you to just go to Him and receive all that you need. And not to forget that when he blesses you, He really blesses you abundantly above all you can imagine or ask for. All this because He loves you. :)

A quick update on the past few days, spent quite some time window shopping with dearie...notice it's window shopping cos I did not get anything other than a new white shirt for choir. :( attended a wedding lunch at hyatt again..but it was really enjoyable and food is great! One of the best weddings I have attended. Went for more shopping with dearie and J after that..heh..Alrite! Time to get back to work!

The Sweetest

The Sweetest

Loh Xiwen, the sweetest sound
That my heart has felt
And my ears has found

Loh Xiwen, the sweetest frame
That my arms have felt
Whom my soul reaches out

My sweetest mate
Whom the Lord has made
The fairest maid
That my gaze has laid

O, blessed man that i am
Whom the Lord has gaveYou to my hand.


Shan't compare this to the poem that is written by e's couz but for the impromptu effort that my dear gh made, i love it! heh...though i dunno if he came up with this just becos i commented that the poem written by e's couz was soo sweet! ;p Hmm...but...y the full name....you mean if i call darling by his full name, it's supposed to be romantic? CGH?

Great Start for Year 2006

Just had my BK lunch and decided to blog..hehe..boss is away from spying tools..It has been a great start of the Year 2006 for me as i'm going to receive taka shopping vouchers for excellent attendance in 2005 (still lying on his table though)..haha.. this is the first time my boss decided to award people with good attendance record. Basically, i haven't been taking any MC for the year 2005 and i din even realise that till my boss sent an official email to me somewhere in Oct 05 to inform me that my MC record is nil. Praise God for divine health for the year and it shall be better this year. Shall spend it "wisely"...hee! Also heard from J that she is converted to perm at work. Praise Jesus! Wat a great start for the Year 2006. I believe all our 100 folds are coming, in fact it's here already, we just have to received it! I have experienced blessings in many ways all these while and thank God for those and more to come! Once again, i'm excited about wat's ahead of me.

Gonna have choir pract this evening. Choir has indeed grown over the years and thank God for sincere servers who chose to commit their time in practices and serving on BS and Sundays. The Lord sees the desires in each of their hearts and fulfills them (including me! Amen! :)).

I thank God for people ard me! Thank God for dearie gh for loving me the way i am, my family for such great help always, my friends for being there for me! :)

I'm a Ta Xiao Jie?

It's the 2nd day of the new year 2006. Went out on the eve of new year with my JC/Uni friends and dearie gh for steamboat dinner. We started roaming aorund for a nice spot to settle down so that we can watch the fireworks at 12 midnight. Esplanade is out since that's where all the actions will be and the threatening number of pple drove us out of there and settle at a quieter spot at the war memorial area. It's worth the wait, the fireworks are beyond words. We had a great time just watching it. Going back from there was a very difficult task. I'm glad for my dear gh who just knew where to get a cab fast and we were not squashed by the CROWD.

Immediately the next morning i set off to church serving in choir for the 1st 2 svses. The 1st message of the year was good, the focus for this year was to be led by the Holy Spirit from glory to glory and be led in everything we do. Dearie got the same word directly from the Lord Himself on the eve. We shall be going from glory to glory in this new year. I'm excited about what is to come!

Today is a rest day for me and dearie. We decided to just take this day and rest, so I slept practically the whole morning till lunch, with interval of waking up for breakfast. :P Parents had been complaining about the level of mess in my room. I decided to change my bedsheet at least. :P While changing, my mum came in and started cleaning up my room for me. I realised i had been co-habitating with a fair amount of dust in my room which i had not clean for many months...ehhh...hee..i felt quite lousy actually, having to let my mum clear and clean my room for me...am I a ta xiao jie? I used to spring clean my room like once every half a year while i was still studying in NTU. Everything stopped when i start working..heh...eh, think i have to make an effort to clean up myself next time. If not my mum will just say things like " aiyo, cannot be so dirty and messy le, later no one wants to marry u"...and my reply "..."..hee..Now my room is clean again, thanks to my mummy! :)

May all of u enjoy this brand new year and be continuously led by the Holy Spirit in everything you do! Blessed New Year! :)

Happy New Year!!!

Taking this time while i'm back in office on a new year's eve at 4plus in the afternoon to sign up a candidate to wish everyone a very Blessed 2006 ahead! Been a great 2005 and 2006 shall be better in Jesus Name! In 2005, I have been blessed with a great bf (my dearie gh) and work wise, i had experience my 30, 60, 100 folds blessings in closing deals (recruitments) too. I also took a really long break from choir and oh yes, my primary school best friend got saved too! Praise God! On the same day when darling gh asked me to be his gf...hehe..Many things has happened this year and for the bad ones, i dun and din wanna remember them too. I only see my blessings! :) Now, I'm back to choir (actually sometimes i'm hesitant about my decision to come back choir although it's the only ministry i wanna serve in but due to the commitment). Well, God shall give me the grace to serve and the alternating system is finally starting! :)

All is good and well! I'm going off to check on my candidate and if he's done, i will be rushing off to meet my darling downstairs. He's waiting for me!!!