This week was another happening but tiring week...

Tuesday: Went for Mass Comm interview at NTU in the morning, thank God for arranging this interview. I am thankful for it, even though I didn't feel very good about my chances after that. PArtly due to my dismal record at interviews, and knowing that my reusults aint good enough for the course.

But I prayed that I'll trust in the Lord as He holds the future and best plans for me. Yup, any other time I will be worried sick, but this time I didn't allow myself to be troubled by this.

Thankfully, I didn't have to wait long for the outcome. I received the admission package on Thursday! Thank God that He's allowed me to get into the course, and I pray that He'll continue to guide me through the course.

Was so tired just now, that I was falling asleep during the Charity not Enough mtg. Thank God for Jiayan, who shared a cab with me home, and I had some time of badly needed rest.

I've been really busy with preparing for the Games, and its been rather draining on everyone, more on those who are in the frontline fighting wars everyday and some of them have fallen ill. But seeing all the boy boy girl girl from all over Asia come here and compete is interesting, most of them are wide eyed youths just having the time of their life here.

If I have the opportunity to interact with any of the athletes, I will choose to spend time with the North Korean team. I'm just dying to know what is going through their minds when they see Singapore, and come into contact with the people, culture here. Even though I think its minimal, (I bet they are banned from visiting the lounges, and not allowed to watch tv, even their movement may be severely restricted, which means no walk around at the malls just below where they're staying) still something about whats here in Singapore, a foreign country that strike them right? The food? The buildings that are populated by people? People who actually go to work in business suits but not in fields, people who dress nicely to work but not to perform a cultural dance on stage? Surely on their way to the training grounds, in the bus, they would have said 'wow, wow, wow'. I am so intrigued by this, coz its not everyday I can get to see people from the North.

Well, so I'm hoping that in the next 10 days, I will get more than, and out of just an exchange of grins with a North Korean player. I have nothing against them they should know, I wanna know them better.

vin

Thank God for leading me through this past week, was really busy, and had to labour through the weekend. Was in JB on Sunday for the Hockey finals and the matches were great, but it also meant that I reached home past 12 and still having to work on the article. Well, I'm kinda glad that the 2 weeks of action is over, and now is time for the Games. For the Games I will be doing something that is totally different from writing. So these weeks I've been managing 2 different portfolios and thank God for keeping me healthy and still going on.

Anyways, I went for my interview at Comms Studies today. (Wanted to give it a final shot). Well, I didn't think the interview went down too well. But you know, I've learnt to trust God. I mean, there's no point in worrying when I know that everything is in God's hands. So yup, see where God leads!

vin

oh ya i did

I wanted to do a shout out here earlier this week when news came bubbling in fresh, but didn't have the time to do so until just, now.

Oh wait, I realised that I've already announced to fellow netizens here that I've passed my driving test right, yep so until now I'm still very thankful.

ta.
vin

I've finally passed my driving test. Really really very incredible and amazing. I feel so thankful.

Going into the test today, I didn't think I stand a chance of passing. Considering that I had not went for a lesson since my previous failure a couple of months back, and I've hastily arranged a 90min lesson before the actual test, I seriously didn't think I will pass.

I was even thinking of how should I respond when I fail, I was running through the right response in my head.. But all of that didn't come to materialise, as I PASSED. wah really thank God for being so gracious.

Haha, even when I told my instructor abt the outcome, this was exactly what he said over the phone, 'Har?! you get 10 points only ah? wah see you blur blur also can get 10points'. Oh well.. yea I won't disagree to that.

yays!
thank God! for teaching me patience.
vin

yay its sunday

phew, thank God that I'm coming to the end of the week :)
Anyway it doesn't make any difference to me, coz even weekends seem like I'm cluttered with work. Thank God for these work, that I have the chance to learn through experience, and serve Him while I can. So I can not only let myself be clouded by the work at hand, but also enjoy it joyfully.

I am still contemplating on whether to head down to AVIVA finals tmr evening. Should I? I really feel like spending the day at home. hmm... will weigh out the 2 options tmr.

Oh ya, today my boss asked me how many off days I wanna take after the Games, and when I wanna leave, in prep for Uni, and he urged me to go on a holiday trip b4 school starts. HAHA... another short holiday sounds good... :)

okok, no time to think abt that for now...
vin

bz bzbz bz

Thank God for PlayMAX at St. Andrew's Cathedral today, I think it was an excellent event for students to play to the max (really!) and to hear the gospel in a very comfortable and flowy manner.

My group stayed from morning right till closing time (5pm), whoa, I still can't believe it, I actually had the energy and strength to play, interact talk with the group from 9-5pm. Whoa, its like almost one full day at work. Thank God for sustaining the excitement and energy level.

After that I headed back to office to clear up some work related stuffs, and really hate it when, by the time I leave the office, the only convenient place to get food is Macs :( sad part of working late, when you see all the shutters coming down and have no choice but to go to Macs to get a burger.

Ok, busy days ahead. I am busy when I don't even have time to check my emails, and go on facebook, and meet my family for dinner (I have not had a meal with anyone of them since last Saturday morning, when my dad was fetching me back to office).

vin

this is joy tea - Oolong + Black + Green. Heavenly.

a cup of joy tea in office today..

Some shots from Saturday:

we are all sad that Geok Lan is leaving for 6 wks.

the best shot of the day ahahahaha

vin

I'm very thankful that this week has come to a close...

Was a crazily busy week, and a very nervous 24 hours from Friday night till Sat.

On Friday night, I missed the connecting bus to church (I knew I was gonna be late by then, just didn't want to be later than late), realised that I left my script at the office. So I was feeling really lousy then, all sweaty and was thinking that I've screwed up. THank God He provided me with a seat. You know how rare it is to get a seat during peak hours right. So I redid my script on the bus.

Saturday morning was at work, when my team was conducting training for the people who will be involved with us in our functional area. Made a couple of major embarassing errors in the persentation slides, but thankfully my boss was very forgiving.

Saturday evening was service, and after that conducted 大组 with JiaYan. Again we're very thankful that everything went smoothly and we all had a lot of fun. A wonderful start.

Its French Open finals later! C'mon ROger!
vin

nightfall

I was just saying that nights are the only time when I can have a little time to myself now. Well, I've learnt that it may not even be the case sometimes, like this week!

Wah this week is about late nights, never ending work, work pressing from all sides and ministries, all nights are taken up.

But thank God for giving me strength :) Thank God for allowing me to think and focus even though its so late at night.

Its rather cool on the mind even though I'm still workin it hard when it should be resting. Coz I've put on my playlist Westlife's live verson songs. (I didnt download them illegally, made a playlist from a free website).

Anyway I'm furious over something which I've encountered in church on Wednesday night. Its like opening up a packet of rotten worms after I thought I've gotten rid of it over time. Oh my goodness, Lord, teach me to love the person. Please dun ask me abt it, coz I'm not gonna say anything, its between me, the Lord, the person.

I woke up 90 minutes later than usual this morning, realised that I actually took only 55mins to get to work! Compared to the 90mins of travelling time I take when I wake up at the usual timing of 615. But this doesn't mean I want to wake up 90mins later than usual from now onwards.

vin