Greetings my folks!!

my short sojourn on blogdrive have had been great. several things happened while I made my short stay right here.

Now, I've a new desktop and since solved my problems with LJ. I've thus shifted some valuable entries back to Livejournal.

you guys have been great all these while. Thank you for everything. I'm shifting back home to LJ again. See you there!

Have a blessed Lunar New Year. Loves!

I guess more or less all of us have had come to accept the loss, but the grief still can be felt... its so obvious on everybody's msn nick.

Valerie was at the bus stop when I was on my way home after ECD lecture and we both agreed that we could strongly feel that someone's missing. Coincidently, Chin Jie's brother spotted me at the bus interchange while I was on my way to school in the evening for BA openhouse's briefing. I guess they collected his ashes today... I didn't ask cause I could see the swollen pair of eyes, obviously redden by all the up-stir of emotions over the past few days.

It didn't make me feel any better either. Oh well.. we need more time.

Nostalgia.

Its 4.45am and I just came back from the hospital. Unfortunately, Chin Jie passed away at 2.44am. Keith and I reached just in time to see him go..must thank Siyin for hurrying us. Really.

Even though, you didn't get to read my card because it didn't had the chance to reach you, and two days short of receiving your brother's bone marrow.... I'm comforted that you're free from pain now.

Thank you for these twelve years worth of friendship. Goodbye my dear friend! I'll miss you.

I want to thank all of you for praying. Thank you!

ARGGHHhhhh.. First paper... I just lost 10 marks to a question that I supposed to know how to answer but I just couldn't do it at that point... But the rest of the questions are ok... there goes my A... 

Ughh!! I've to work harder for the finals.. that's all..

 Out of curiousity... this girl "dismantled" her upright piano.  Whack a couple of songs on it and realize that it actually sounds nicer, FULLER and LOUDER without the covers on.

Now she understands why people lift the lid of their grand piano. In fact, she misses the grand piano over at Keith's place.

Time to mug...

3 entries in a day, absurd for me. But whatever it is... it's New Year's Eve. I've been thinking a lot lately, about life, death and what have had happened over the twelve months in 2005. This year, I've known too many people who passed on... Chin Jie's illness came as a blow.

School & internship have been great... Totally enjoying the last semester in school. I don't want to screw this semester... its not worth it! GB's getting more like part of my life, every Saturday spent with the kids...totally worth it. Honestly, its been a tiring year but I've a purpose in life.. so I've to press on!

Then Promiseworks' projects... I desire to be more active in it. I live by my mantra -Make an impact in someone else's life. That is why.. I've been with GB for so long. I've received the impact and its time to pay it forward... from 2006.. we'd be rising a generation of Esthers.

But something I realize through all these, I've learned to treasure people more. This year, I see more of my relationship with God. It has never been so good, and I desire more of Him in my life. Mentioning about faith, I was doing my devotion yesterday night and if you didn't know... I rely very much on the "Daily Bread" booklet for all my QT sessions. This is yesterday's content... about the Glory Of The New Covenant 

A woman went to a diet center to lose weight. The director took her to a full-length mirror. On it he outlined a figure and told her, "This is what I want you to look like at the end of the program."

Days of intense dieting and exercise followed, and every week the woman would stand in front of the mirror, discouraged because her bulging outline didn't fit the director's ideal. But she kept at it, and finally one day she conformed to the image she longed for.

Putting ourselves next to Christ's perfect character reveals how "out of shape" we are. To be transformed into His image does not mean we attain sinless perfection; it means that we become complete and mature.

God often works through suffering to bring this about (James 1:2-4). Sometimes He uses the painful results of our sins. At other times, our difficulties may not be caused by a specific sin, yet we undergo the painful process of learning to obey our Father's will.

Are you hurting? Perhaps a shaping-up process is in progress. Jesus was perfect, yet He had to learn obedience through the things He suffered (Hebrews 5:8).

If you keep on trusting Jesus, you'll increasingly take on the image of His loveliness. —Dennis De Haan

God has a purpose in our heartache,
The Savior always knows what's best;
We learn so many precious lessons
In each sorrow, trial, and test. —Jarvis

The difficulties of life are to make us better—not bitter.

You know... a lot of things aren't coincidental.. If you know what I'm going through at this point in time... you will definitely agree that this came just in time.

Happy New Year.

John, Chuck, Peng Soon and I just went to visit CJ. His mum looked so so shag, pray for his family please! His appetite reaches pit bottom, that plate of noodle still sit untouched. We bummed around for a little while before he underwent treatment. So we went to have breakfast, Azaree and Diana joined us after that. We went back to the ward hoping to see him again but he nurse told us to let him rest. We waited at the resting area for about 45mins then his mum came out from his room, telling us to go home first.

Its ok! We'll visit him next week! I didn't manage to pass the card to him so... Bro.. I've a message for you... it doesn't want to go undelivered... Please stay strong!