keep believing

i saw a frog
sitting on a rock
i was so shocked
when suddenly it talked

guess how many hours of webcast i watched today. i never thought i would survive webcast, not even half an hour, without falling asleep. but i just did. four more hours to go for cn! i went to raffles museum of biodiversity research at science for my bio assignment on monday. it has interesting horrifying appalling stuff inside, i think you should go there when you are free. it will make you appreciate the nature and its Creator more. meetings for mno are just about to get intensive. we have diseases spreading within the team, and i might have been infected by all. more like all were inborn in me. mno is my favorite module of the semester! i should start doing tutorials and stop skipping lectures.

..too, was his passive obedience, when he endured with unmurmuring submission, hunger and thirst, cold and nakedness, and at length sweat great drops of blood in Gethsemane, gave his back to the smiters, and his cheeks to them that plucked out the hair, and was fastened to the cruel wood, that he might suffer the wrath of God in our behalf.
CH Spurgeon

There was once a newspaper vendor who had a rude customer.

One morning, the customer walked by, refused to return the greeting, grabbed the paper off the shelf and threw the money at the vendor.

The vendor picked up the money, smiled politely and said, “Thank you, Sir.”

The vendor’s assistant asked him, “Why were you being so polite with him when he was so rude to you? Why don’t you throw the newspaper at him when he comes back tomorrow?”

The vendor smiled and replied,

“He can’t help being rude and I can’t help being polite.
Why should I let his rude behaviour dictate my politeness?”

the worst solution to a problem is to be indifferent towards it. to forget about it without solving it, to avoid it, to continue delaying the time when you are actually going to deal with it. like sleeping on your stress and endless work. like not panicking when you are supposed to. to be indifferent is not even a solution to a problem. pray about it, confront it, learn from it. you can always do something.
i can be scarily nonchalant. i might have been too happy. i wish to be less ignorant. i wish to have more sense of urgency when dealing with my time and my problems. i wish not to disappoint anyone, anymore.

it’s nice to be woken up and to have your friend popped up at your doorstep to deliver salmon maki for your breakfast the next morning.
because it’s cheap.
greatly appreciated :)

the sie acara of iscf camp went for a journey to the east/back to nature/bonding session/camp location survey today. it was a long long trip.

linda and i went to tampines mall afterwards. the mission was to buy a decent pair of slippers and a bag and bubble tea in half an hour.
we went home with a pair of slippers and bubble tea each. not bad.

i watched twelve angry men in mno lecture on friday, i thought it was funny. you think too much you get mixed up. it’s just so me.

remember the long nights when the whole world is sleeping but you can’t fall asleep and you get frightened. you go to your mom’s room and you touch her hand lightly and you whisper to her. she wakes up, looking tired and worried but not at all annoyed. she won’t make you fall asleep right away, but she makes you feel safe and at peace. she’s there and you know that everything is alright.

in the midst of troubles, when all your comforts are taken away from you, when the world has its own problems, when everyone is too busy for everyone else, go to Him, touch His hand lightly and whisper to Him. He’s always there, and you know that everything is alright.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4

spring cleaning! i cleaned my room. and i mean i cleaned it. very clean. very nice. very clean.very nice. very clean. very nice. very clean. very nice. i can do this forever. anyway. horey. i’m very very so very proud of myself. i took out my luggages and had people asking: are you moving out. no i’m cleaning my room! i took out the broken and forgotten guitar. and left it there. i changed the position of my bed to the original position. i placed my chair in front of my computer, and put the keyboard in the drawer. i placed my tv at the place he deserves but had been deprived of ever since he was bought. i tried to draw the blinds back and i think i may have destroyed them in the process but anyway. i threw rubbish that i collected over the months. i wiped off all dusts on all surfaces with dettol, swept the floor with a broom i found in the toilet, and mopped the floor once with dettol, and twice with some apple smelling mop liquid whatever you call it. i changed my bedsheet and threw my three days laundry in three washing machines. horey.

lets studyy.

my room is very clean. very nice.

my room is in a mess. you still can walk around inside, but you can hardly see that there is a table. gyobaa. nodame is my inspiration, room-wise.

her room.

gyaboo.

thanks to pat for nodame.

i’m doing my last lab report for the semester.
i will miss cm1502 labs.

<3
..One who loves without measure, without change, without beginning, and without end..

suddenly i lost my voice. it started with a little bit of sorethroat which continued with talking too much. not shouting or singing. just talking with some people. who didn’t lose their voices.
is this a hint for me to shut up and to use my tongue more wisely.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue.

we were shy with the photographer. so couldn’t gaya so much.

family day was really good. we had free flow of food like candyfloss and ice cream which i couldn’t eat, we had free photoshoot like the above, we had lucky draws which made the kids very happy, we had orange balloons and helium which made pat go: at first i was afraid i was petrified and laugh like mad, we had dunking machine, bungee jumping, bouncy castle, perfomances, games.. people were happy. well done :)
i will leave the hall with one more good memory of hall life.

i was supposed to be at different places at the same time yesterday, i’m glad i prioritised right.

i found my matric card when i was searching for a receipt to claim. little surprises like this or like knowing that a lecture is canceled or an assignment deadline is extended are good. but i didn’t find the receipt.

be strong.
It is at our weakest, most broken moments that God’s glory is most perfectly revealed.

if a sucky day is a day when you are deprived of vain glory and you are deemed as a loser in the beautiful world, thank God for sucky days.

minute maid made my day today. i almost write minute made maid my day. it eases a ticking head and sorethroat. anyway. i am back to the girl who literally walks in and out at people’s mercy.. i misplaced my matric card again. i should own like multiple matric cards.
the days have been hot and not so good. but i am taken care of :)

Your lives are the only Bible some people will ever read.