kay im in the mood for updating now so good luck on listening/reading my droning about the conference!

day1: we all arrived at the airport with severely OVERWEIGHT luggage, josh's was like. 18kg or something. so we all started throwing our things out of the luggage and trying to stuff things into each others hand luggage. hahaha and i threw my half my stuff and my study Bible into everyone else's bag. hehe.



and josh drinks up this entire BOTTLE of evian to lighten his luggage. heh.

when we got there we received news that we had to get up at FIVEAM the next day. how disastrous right. this josh kept making so much noise and smacking my head in the bus. then we went to mok's recommended PINKY TAILOR, where the tailor indirectly told us to shuddup cos we were making too much noise. hehe.

suan lum next! the boys told us we could shop for two hours- one hour later they call us and tell us they finished and they want to follow us around. and boys are absolutely no help whatsoever in shopping. they just sit there, laugh at you for not being able to bargain and scold you for shouting "so cheap! so cheap!"

day2: we get up at FIVEAM, trudge down to breakfast and the bus leaves at SEVENTHIRTYAM. seriously. [we find out later that all this fiveam nonsense is to allow for stupid people that are always late. so punctual people like us, get PUNISHED cos we're so ontime.]

- i will not record the events of day2, because its not very good.-

day3: val and i walk into the room for the commission of revenue.

and we have icebreakers! haha. AND VAL HAPPILY SABOS ME. -will not record this event either-
val-mickey's special friend keeps shooting me dagger eyes cos im sitting next to him. darn. why does no one shoot him dagger eyes. HAHAHHAHA. okay its 10.10pm and im sleepy

day4: the singapore delegates do the english correction for the debators. haha. and we ask intelligent questions from the floor. hehe. and we come up with the draft resolution! which we finished in about half an hour. then everyone goes out to buy paper and all to make banners while val and i go and do our memo :'( which wasnt very successful cos he kept talking like this crazy dude

day5: we have an excursion! and it is very hot. we get to see a REAL parliamentary debate in the thai parliament house! unfortunately, we dont understand a thing. we wonder why we didnt get kicked out of the place. hehe.

then theres free time! all the rest leave us to do our memo, and we try to go shopping at night but to no avail. cos all the shops closed on us! and guess what the smart boys suggest we go to patpong market. VERY. val tells me to shut my eyes everytime he says "UP!" i have no idea why but okay i follow. hehe. people chasing the boys all round asking them if they wanna watch the pingpong show. SERIOUSLY. horrifying. i just ran to the shopping section. which was quite bad cos there wasnt anything to buy but well.

day6: we have our final presentations for the choosing of the draft resolution. val writes his speech five mins before the presentation, with hinder blasting in his ear:



and guess what the more impt pillars for the building of a country turn out to be? EDUCATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS. education sounds normal right, but NO its sex education and gay rights. hahahha IM SURE. the commission for trade and commerce so should have won. but well. haha

i had a good talk with jason about life and service and ecclesiastes and church. and he admits that he -thought- i was a bimbo. note: THOUGHT. i am not. hhaahahhaha. and i reminded me of bethany and how much i miss it! and how grateful i am to still be around God's people even when im not in singapore. these little reminders of His love for me (:

day 7: we go on a cool excursion!!! its really breezey and really nice, and in one of the palaces we went to, the aircon was on the floor!!! i was so excited. but then i realised it doesnt really make sense cos cold air sinks. heh. and this ramen ditched us for her memo! VERY.

and then we go for the really cool CRUISE that is so niceeee and i was enjoying the bus ride there when we realise we need to come up with an item. so jason and i are STUCK. and guess what we sang? MR BEASLEY by corrine may. im sure jason can sing that to a guy. but well. it was funny we just did some nonsense and it turned out alright. thankfully!

day 8: we do random things and SHOP LIKE MAD at platinum. haha. thea and i bought the whole place down! desiree, glenda, mich, ruizi, beekee, wanxuan, kennedy, mok and daniel zhang have arrived and we go to suan lum for dinner - BIG MISTAKE.

while the boys ditch us at night, thea and i walk around nichada [the expat community that is so pretty and nice and safe] and talk about alot of things. another reminder of the Lord's goodness in providing me with friends i can share a common faith with! (:

then when we get home, we spend the night puking and diarrhoeaing all the pad thai we ate at suan lum out. and start running a fever

day 9: thea and i roll around on the bed dying of fever while the boys laugh at us. then josh starts running a fever. and looks so sad and pathetic. hahahahha. val is the only healthy one when he was the one that started the germ-spread at the start of the conf!

day 10: we all wake up at 8am and drag val to church. ECB is a pretty okay church the last time i went, but sadly this time the message wasnt really substantial so thea and i were disappointed :'( then i remember how much i miss Bethany! :'(

after church we go for lunch and rushhhhhh to chatuchak to accelerate all our shopping. the boys have to be our excess baggage and we cant get rid of them. so i spend the two hours telling them to hurry up! haha. then we rush to get our nails done and val paints his nails BLUE. BLUEBLUEBLUE [he still thinks hes wolverine]

and then we rushrushrush to the airport where i discover that i have LEFT MY PHONE at my uncle's house. smart right. and the airport is forty mins away, and out flight is in half an hour. great! and by God's amazing grace, our flight is delayed TWO HOURS. amazing. hahaha so we eat burger king, and start groping our way back to the departure hall where the driver comes to deliver my phone :'( ramen ditches us yet again for her memo. haha. and after josh and val run around with me all over the airport, my hard lense falls into some section of my eye and val has to PUSH it back into position. painful. PAINFUL.

and then we finally come home. (: ramen has a big welcoming party consisting of: mommydaddybrotherboyfriend. josh has; mommydaddy. val and i have: nobody. :'( HAIYA.

but its okay, im home but i feel like puking more. so i thank God for journey mercies and sleep.

hhah okay end of my 9day-bangkok escapade! (: and truly the Lord has been good (: now i need more grace to understand crim law, legal theory and contracts! and driving :/ nvm. i will believe He is with me through all of this (: YAYE.

Lips of an angel - Hinder.

Honey why are you calling me so late
It’s kinda hard to talk right now
Honey why are you crying is everything okay
I gotta whisper cause I can’t be too loud
Well, my girls in the next room
Sometimes I wish she was you
I guess we never really moved on
It’s really good to hear your voice saying my name
It sounds so sweet
Coming from the lips of an angel
Hearing those words it makes me weak
And I never wanna say goodbye
But girl you make it hard to be faithful
With the lips of an angel

It’s funny that you’re calling me tonight
And yes I’ve dreamt of you too
And does he know you’re talking to me
Will it start a fight
No I don’t think she has a clue
Well my girls in the next room
Sometimes I wish she was you
I guess we never really moved on
It’s really good to hear your voice saying my name
It sounds so sweet
Coming from the lips of an angel
Hearing those wordsa it makes me weak
And I never wanna say goodbye
But girl you make it hard to be faithful
With the lips of an angel

It’s really good to hear your voice saying my name
It sounds so sweet
Coming from the lips of an angel
Hearing those words it makes me weak
And I never wanna say goodbye
But girl you make it hard to be faithful
With the lips of an angel
(And I never wanna say goodbye)
But girl you make it so hard to be faithful
With the lips of an angel
Honey why are you calling me so late

this song has been stuck in my head since like the second day of the conference. all mickey's fault. hahahah thea keeps wanting to smack me cos i keep singing this so loudly heh. i have succeeded in uploading more photos, click this

i have so many thoughts now its just all swimming in my head.

haha. its terrible to be sick. thea and i were just dying with a fever and puking and all on saturday, and josh and val kept poking our heads WOKE US UP and made so much noise and laughed at us. evil.

haha during the conference it was kinda hard to communicate cos all the countries like china, korea, japan and all learn law in their own language, but well we got by (:

i really miss bangkok

okay blogger is taking really long it took like five minutes to upload one photo. so sorry, just one photo. no more patience! haha. MISSING RAMEN, BECAUSE SHE DITCHED US TO DO HER MEMO. grrr. hahahah i have photos of all the pretty girls at the conference because SOMEONE MADE ME DO IT. terrible.



okay plus the photo isnt even straight. HAHAHAHA. usually it fixes itself. whats wrong! nvm. ive succeeded in uploading 6 photos on this

okay i have too many things to say, but i need to sleep. this is an incoherent entry. so, when i have more patience. but anw, BETHANY I LOVE YOU. my '87 girls i love you guys too, PLEASE COME BACK SOON :'(

"that you may have a walk worthy of God,
fully pleasing Him,
being fruitful in every good work
and increasing in the knowledge of God." -Colossians1:10

i think the Lord really has been gracious to us. somehow i think when you make decisions to honor the Lord, He honors you in return in His own way (: before i went to sleep last night i was thinking about how i often fail to see the big picture, and i asked for wisdom to see the big picture. the faith to believe that everything that happens in my life is for good reason, and for me to stop praying for things to happen if they arent gonna be good for me.

and, well. walking with Jesus, there truly is no greater thrill. (:

SUNDAY SCHOOL NOTES TO MY BELOVED '87 GIRLS.

hello my darlings! here are sunday schools notes for this week [yaye
claps we are ontime!!] hahaha. anw just some updates, we've been
combined with t grace's class and depending on the way you see it
either we are the additions or sisi, jamie and amanda are the
additions to our class!! but anw sunday school this week was extremely
thought-provoking, and since ive been -tasked- to be the scribe, haha
i will share with you guys! [with exceedingly great joy hehe]

t grace started off with asking us who wrote the book of ephesians
[answer:Paul] and then she highlighted to us that Paul wrote four
books/letters whilst he was in prison, namely ephesians, colossians,
philemon and philippians!

The main role of ephesians was to encourage, edify and strengthen the
churches in Ephesus [the latter was not solely addressed to a single
church]

3 thoughts were brought up about the main aim or the SUBJECT of the
book of ephesians:
1. the 'church of the living God' [eph1:22-23, 2:21]
2. the mystery of salvation [eph3:4, 4:13]
3. a new man and the church as a temple [eph5:25, 6:11]

3 questions we then posed to us:
1. what does the Church of the living God mean to you?
2. how do you function in life as a member of the Church?
3. what expectations are there of me if i am a member of the Church of
the living God?
- how do you draw encouragement by being a part of the Church?

t grace then asked us to each ask her one question

Sisi - when do you become a part of the church?
Jia - why is the Church referred to as the mystery of Christ?
Cherie - why did Paul use the concept of the Church to encourage the people?
Jenny - if Paul's purpose in writing ephesians was to edify, how do
you explain the current state of Ephesus [present-day Turkey]?
Rach - are the expectations of a member of the church generic or
specific to each individual? And how do you know you are fulfilling
what is expected of you?

hahaha okays thats all i have for sunday school notes. heh. LILING AND
VETTE AND RAH I MISS YOUUUUU!!!! man. i cant wait for you guys to come
back real real real soon :'( for me, sch is getting really hectic esp
cos im leaving for bangkok this fri for a law student conference and
ive a deadline submission and basically im about to go mad. hahah. BUT
my new determination for 2007 is to be more positive in my outlook,
STOP WORRYING and start trusting! hahah. so yea i am learning to trust
Him and focus on Him (: ive been reading both the book of ephesians
and the book of james recently, and i think they both have very
practical viewpts on life. one concept from the book of ephesians is
that of WALKING, walking in love, walking in wisdom [circumspectly].
and thats my encouragement to you too! to keep walking. (:

walking with Jesus there is no greater thrill! walking with Jesus
calms my heart like nothing else will (:

love you guys loads and loads, and i will do my very best to remember
all of you in prayer (:

in His love and much of mine, rach (:

another very sad quote from greys-

"he's gonna hurt you again. and when he does, i wont be here."

just a thought - the Lord works in amazing ways. ways i can never understand. and in each situation, i slowly see the lessons He's trying to teach me. today, the lesson that He knows whats best for me way above anything i could ever ask for myself was reinforced. sometimes when i -think- i reallyreallyreally want something, im always careful to add, at the back of my prayer, that He shouldnt give it to me if its not whats best for me. ignore all my pleadings if its gonna destroy my life or something. and i will learn to wait on Him, and trust. (:

and i will praise You, with every breath i take
i will worship You, with every choice i make
i will sing for the glory of the Lord,
yes, i will sing for the glory of the Lord.

i like talking to jinglin about ______________. she is funny. she makes me laugh.

haha. today when i met with kenneth [he is supposed to be teaching me how to cultivate my prayer life] we ended up talking about marriage. hahaha and he kept telling me marriage is not about love, its about commitment. i dont know about you but i think thats pretty sad. i hope theres SOME love in my marriage, else i'll be pretty darned sad about that. haha.

but i think one thing that should always be the centre of any Christian relationship/marriage - the Lord. he was telling me about how as a pastor he has to write his own marriage vows [including stuff like how the Lord has to take precedence and all] and i wanna write my own marriage vows too! or i'll let my husband write it. haha. i was talking to bq the other day and he asked me about my criterias for a boyfriend/husband. WAHAHHAHA he said the same thing val said when i finished -"YOU DIE. cannot get married."

aiyar. and then i realised, even if i find my perfect guy, HE ALSO HAS TO LIKE ME. i think i really am dead. hahahahahahhahahah.

on saturday when i saw beth, she said to me "i shaw you at the carpark jush now. i wanted to find you but mommy say cannot."



then she wanted to go play at the creche area. heh when she saw the house she looked at me and said "lets go into the housh! and lock the door sho nobody can come in." i protested cos i AM kinda big for the house but well. i managed to fit in. heh and she closed ALL the windows and the doors and started



cooking.

funny. haha. when she saw gavin on sunday she stretched out her hand at him and went "DRAGON FLAME!!! PISHPISHPISH!!" oh man i almost died laughing.

oh well school has started again! and i began the term great i just lost something. wonderful. haha. i really do not like the feeling of losing things but well. i think it makes me appreciate why the Lord finds great joy when someone returns to Him. not that my little minute things that i lose are even remotely comparable to a soul but well. haha.

on a completely irrelevant note, i really like the band at indochine wisma. even though they kinda messed by 'far away' by nickelback which is one of my favorite songs but yea. on the whole extremely nice to watch! haha. but i was a little disturbed when this couple [they looked even younger than me] stood up and started swaying around in front of everyone and they each had a cigarette in their hands -_- i was so afraid they were gonna burn each other or something but well. they didnt. haha.

on another irrelevant note, en excerpt from our statutory memo question- 'TTT carries out its manufacturing, including making lingerie using raffia string and coconut husks' SERIOUSLY. WHAT are our law professors thinking when they create these hypotheticals?!

anw. its 2007. yaye! am looking so forward to seeking so much more this year! haha. i am thankful for alot of things, when i look back. i see how the Lord has been so gracious and has brought me through so much. haha. i am especially thankful when i read all the hypotheticals and my life is no where near that disastrous. haha okays. i am gonna leave now (:

yes! i finally found my camera connector. haha. here are Christmas photos!

my princess. the first smile she gave me on Christmas day, and she was subsequently like



THAT.



and finally when her mom bribed her with opening another Christmas present, she gave her sweetest smile haha.



bethany is so cute. she showed me these pictures of the disney princesses and told me she liked little mermaid: "i like dish one" she says. (:

my handsome boyfriend.



gabriel does not want to be my second boyfriend. hahaha but he bought me this sweet/lipstick thing from the mama shop for Christmas. hahahahaha and he made me give him a present.



a very upset shepherd because



the wise man



had a star, and he didnt.



what's left of our sunday school class. heh. and some go missing periodically too. DIE.



and the range of stupid photos- jus has the ones that are EVEN WORSE.heh







[i asked them to do a stupid pose for me and this is what they did. heh]





and okay im tired of posting, so heres the photo that tells you what Christmas really means. set your heart on things above, for He gave us everything that first Christmas (:

today was such a random day. i think i went a lil crazy trying to squeeze so many activities in a day! haha. kenneth msged me at FOUR in the morn saying that the committee dinner was still on, and i almost fainted when i woke up and read the msg cos i was supposed to meet wjn for dinner and we've cancelled like about twenty times. haha AND wonderful kenneth typed the msg wrongly. apparently he missed out the 'NOT' which was an extremely important word. comm dinner is 'NOT' on.

so i rushed to town to meet weibo for lunch before going to church. but the highlight of lunch was not lunch. the highlight of lunch was after lunch after he created this entire story about how he bought me stuff from hk and left it in his friend's car and how we had to go get it and all THEN I REALISED HE PASSED HIS DRIVING AND HAD HIS OWN CAR. what?! after lying to me for 2months that he hadnt booked his test yet. im such a smart girl though i kinda knew heh see how well i know how my silly friends think. haha and so i had a lift to church and i got there in ten mins. dont i love friends who drive ;)

i think 2007 is going to be an amazing year. im just reallyreally excited about ministry and how Bethany is gonna grow in this next year. i've learnt so many new lessons in the past year, and im not about to forget what my all-encompassing new year prayer is: to have greater love. greater love for the Lord, which naturally leads to greater love for others. and to ask, believing that i will receive. (:

after i ran to town again to meet wjn for dinner and was in the middle of telling him about the structure of ypg and all, he commented that Bethany functions in a very different way from other churches and that he wanted to go see. haha. that made me feel very warm inside cos its times like these that i really see the treasure i have in Bethany- not one that im planning to let go of anytime soon! sure, there may be struggles and when youre not walking right you are CONSTANTLY being faced with that reality and forced to deal with it, it ultimately makes you a better, stronger, more grounded individual/Christian. and i think thats really special. (:

and so, as the new year starts, i will learn to be thankful (:

to cherry: thankyou for being there and for growing alongside me this entire year. our friendship is really special and i loveeeeeeeeee you. (:

[sorry only bestfriend gets special mention]

in church, i am thankful for the pastors for feeding us so well with the word of God, the teachers for leading us and counseling us and dealing with all our rubbish problems one by one, riejinglinjusmanwen, the older comm members for teaching me to be wise and showing me how to serve effectively, and of course, the younger ones that have shown me that there is yet hope. (: and have reminded me what child-like faith is really about.

in school, i am thankful for those few friends that've been there for me. some to talk about random stuff together, others to talk about faith and growth, others to mug together and go nuts together. im not mentioning names just in case i get whacked for forgetting someone- that always happens during Christmas. yikes.

and my few darling sc/ac friends that i still keep in contact with.
sc: celmandyrisgeri i loveeeee you.
ac: bobobertjol(1)jol(2)joeycasswjn

so as 2006 closes, i learn to count my blessings. many, blessings. (:
2007- seek first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. (: