Love
never gives up,
never loses faith,
is always hopeful,
and,
of course,
endures through
every circumstance.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
I've FINALLY completed the checking of files! I'm going to do music labeling soon. After blogging, i just want to rest. My lappy nida rest too!
Know wad?
There're some things we thought we know.
Example, knowing God.
Theoretical knowledge is not equals to Heart knowledge (real experience).
When there's heart knowledge, we can believe for the impossible from Daddy God.
When there's only theoretical knowledge about God, Christianity becomes dry and powerless. It becomes a religion, no longer a relationship with God.
Have a revelation about Daddy God today!
God bless!
16:57
Sunday, January 29, 2006
Haha! Happy Chinese New Year to you people out there!
And right here in my room, I'm feeling quite stressed out. You'll never guessed that I'm working right in my room. And I really mean work. Not school work, all right. School work is other work I need to finish during this chinese new year "holidays" I'm sure you know what I mean. As much as possible, I'm doing my best to enjoy what I am doing. " ) Yet at the same time, I am feeling stressed because the work is tedious and not that easy "Oh it's just some checking of files.> Hey I gotta check dunno how many thousands of files, mind you. Oh well.. More than enough of my complaining. Haha.. Dun wana spoil your day or night.
TATA>>>
17:23
Saturday, January 28, 2006
I have not been blogging for a long long time. I just posted my birthday blog, cheated on the date. :p never mind lah. It's for memories' sake.
I've been "supernaturally" busy with FYP [Final Year Project]. Right after my birthday is an intensive spritual fight. Yup! On Monday (23/1)morning, my project mate, Meiju, called me and told me that we have to submit the SUMMIT poster the next day because the next day is our presentation of the SUMMIT poster. The lecturer didn't email us about it. No nothing! Meiju got to know about it from her friend. Question: what is SUMMIT poster? Explaination: SUMMIT poster is a poster that gives people an idea of what your FYP is all about.
So now, tell me. Ladies and gentlemen, we have not even completed our FYP final report draft 2, How in the world are we going to finish the poster by Monday night? I felt as if it's a spiritual attack. So we did our draft 2 in school and went over to Meiju's house to do the SUMMIT poster the WHOLE NIGHT! Without even winking an eye of sleep! I tell you it's not easy. We CHIONG AHHHHH....... We kept editing the draft 1 of poster. Esp the graph. I can still remember very vividly both her cousin and brother said, "Last minute work won't be good."
The next morning (24/1), we finished the template of the poster on the powerpoint slide. Meiju printed it out while I went home to change my clothes. Hey, I bathed at her place. Don't think I'm unclean. We agreed to meet in school. On my way home, I was praying. i prayed that God will give us strength to present the whole thing.
At 9am, both of us reached school and [I was still praying], quickly cut and pasted our stuff on the poster. And then came adelyn to help us. I said I owe her a drink. Anyway, the whole poster wasn't nice at all. You may ask adelyn. We threw away all the rubbish and went to the room to present. The reporting time was 9am and we reached the place at around 9.30am. We waited and caught our breath, discuss what to say during the presentation. Finally, it was our turn. We presented. Thank God the only judge is Dr Koh. The other was away. It was supposed to be Dr Forday, instead of Dr Koh. I was super nervous. However, the whole thing ended up to e quite casual.
On the same Tuesday, Meiju and I had PDC presentation on GM food. I still have the strength to make the presentation funny. Apparently it seems that the whole class knows that Meiju and I have not slept the whole night. Some of the girls were saying, "Xue'er, you don't look like you didn't sleep at all." I tell you my eyes were super tired! I told them plainly that it is God who has gave me strength.
Next, we heard news of selected groups will enter the final judging where external judges will come and listen to our presentation. Both Meiju and I said,"Ai ya! We sure won't enter the final judging one lah. Don't worry!"
At around 9pm++ on Thursday, Junius sms-ed me: hey xue'er, you entered into the final judging!
And I was like "HUH!?" after I read the sms after bible study. I quickly called Meiju and she was like "HUH!!!!!!!!!???????" I told her to check her email as I was still out and she just reached home. I went back home to check email too. I was super excited. I went home to prepare for the possible questions the judges may ask. Both of us slept at around 3am.
On Friday morning, I met Meiju at 8.30am in our lab. We quickly pasted the poster together and went over to LT 26 at 9.10am. We put up our poster, as well as Chew Ping's. Meiju and I waited for 3 hours! I was praying for favor of God and men be upon us, etc. One of the judges is Mr Benny (sth), that's the guy I don't really like. I mean he was arrogant the other time when he gave us a lecture on quality control. Holy Spirit brought back to my rememberance to be at peace with my enemies. The more rebellious my attitude toward him, he will pay me back more rebellious attitude. So I agreed with the Holy Spirit and immediately changed my attitude towards him. I was still super nervous. I held a piece of paper in my hand, gave me some form of security. Anyway, we presented to the judges. To my great surprise, Mr Benny gave us the absolute best comments ever I've heard in my whole life! He said our project presentation is the best because of 4 things (which I can't remember all). One of them is quality of presentation, the other is content. I can't remember
the other 2 but the 4 sums up to one word, he says. That is substance. He said our presentation has substance! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I rushed to lunch and bible study with adelyn. After that, I rushed back to LT26 for SUMMIT conference. The resutls of the SUMMIT poster competition was out! To our great surprise, we are in the top 6 groups whose presentation is the best! WOw! So is Junius's poster and Des' poster. We received popular bookshop vouchers per team. I thought they'll give us cold hard cash. Haiz! But never mind, it's ok. " )
At the end of the whole thing, Meiju said to me,"From the beginning of the FYP till now, the whole experience is simply magical." That totally blow me off, i tell you. And even my mum said that this is a miracle! Wow! To me, it's really the work of God. From the beginning where our first trial of experiment failed till now, I've been praying. And I'm going to continue praying until the day that mark the completion of our FYP.
Thank you to Meiju, who has been super duper hard-working in contribution to our FYP.
Thanks to Dr Hedy Goh & Dr Joseph Keuh for all help and advice, etc.
Thanks to the Holy Trinity, who has guided us, helped us, armed us with strength and blessed us!
Amen!
16:31
Sunday, January 22, 2006
Happy Birthday to myself!
First of all, I wana say a BIG "thank you!" to:
1. God for creating & putting me in this wonderful cell group e343
2. My parents
3. My cell group e343 inclusive of adelyn, sheryl, lingling & shirley
4. Desmond
5. Phobe, Zoe & Angel
6. All the others
I've recevied 21 gifts this birthday!
1. Birthday card
2. Bible verses card
3. Birthday CD of me
4. Bracelet & Sweets from adelyn
5. Self-Baked Biscuits from Sheryl
6. Kappa T-shirt
7. Anklet
8. Watch
9. Bag
10. Japonais Biscuits
11. VooDoo mushmallow
12. Notebook
13. A pair of Star Ear-Ring
14. A pair of CooL giRL socks
15. You The Leader book by Pastor Phil Phrigle
16. Chocolate
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
Too many, I can't remember. Perhaps Junius Solomon can help me with this.. :p
16:02
Saturday, January 21, 2006
I enjoyed the band practice today! We played some marching song call Emblem, Ghost train, the hounds of spring and some other song. I can't exactly remember what song that is. I only kinda remember there's a lot of compound time and changing of time. It is a nice song. Not too bad for the first time we played Ghost Train. It sounded ok. We're sight-reading after all. Even though I was really tired today, I can still keep up with the time and pace the band played. I feel quite proud of myself (zi hao). Thank God for the strength too! I hope we can play Ghost Train for this coming Pops & Classics. Yuri would love it! Then we'll scare the audience. Those who have a weak heart, please come prepared for this concert if we really play this piece. Haha!
Count Down: 1h 50min
22:10
Friday, January 20, 2006
Hey! I've found out the names of all 5 movements of Lord of the Rings!
Lord of the Rings
Movement I: Gandalf
Movement II: Lothlorien
Movement III: Gollum
Movement IV: Journey in the dark
Movement V: Hobbits
03:47
I'm feeling quite stressed up because of Genomics test and all the other FYP stuff coming up. Eg, final report and SUMMIT poster. Other things include DDD TB assignment and PDC business project. The weeks seems to go by very quickly without your notice.
I'm right now in the valley of my life. God's dealing with some areas of my character. It sounds scary. A bit. Quite. Once this is over, I'll be happier and stronger. I'm glad that I shared with my CGL. If I don't share it out, I'll wither away spiritually. I told her I don't want to end up like somebody I knew. I thought she is strong, more equipped with the knowledge and experiences (both) but in the end, I do not even know what happened to her. I hope that she'll come back. And there's somebody else like her too. It seems that the both of them are on pretty on good terms now. Same birds fly in the same flock.
This coming Saturday is the last day of my regular Saturday band practice. I feel a bit sad cos' I'll miss my section and my conductor. I'll miss out the fun for a greater purpose. As what I said, weeks will pass by quickly. Days will come where Saturdays will be off for me cos' there's churchwide seminar. Haha... Hey I'm doing my best to take joy in whatever that's going on around me.
Count down: 2 more days
03:42
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Dunno why i'm feeling weird for some strange reason about something in my life. I don't know how to describe this kind of feeling. Maybe it's the first time I experienced it. I think I hide it somewhere in my mind. It comes out only when somebody bring it out of me. Yea, somebody.. I don't know how to solve this problem because I do not know what the root of it is.
23:32
Update!!! I'm kinda happy on last Saturday cos' we played Lord of the Rings Movement I-V!!! We never really tried that before. Looks like Mr Tan wants to push up our standard. Our band is going for National Band Competition. I heard that bands like West Wind or maybe SWS are going. Once they go, we have to triple hard. No play play. I can't exactly remember the names of each pieces. Well, I wonder what we're going to play for Pops & Classics.
Count Down: 5 more days
23:19
Friday, January 13, 2006
I'm in the NPCB club house right now. Everybody seem to be so loud and kicking alive. Yea sure... I typed this at 5.39pm.
Now i am back home from band practice. My mind was slowing down during practice. We played a few songs that doesn't sound nice. We say, "Let's tear it into piece and burn it!" Violent!!! But the pieces ain't nice at all. Ok lah.. Hard to please. It feels great to be re-united with my clarinet again! I've been looking forward to meeting it again. He still sounds so good! No flat or sharp during tuning. Of course, that's not all there is to it. It's just my fingers are getting slow. My mind gets slow, didn't think fast enough with the music and sight-reading. Argh-
Well, things will get better after each practice. Pops n Classics is gonna be in May. I hope I can play better than Rondeau XX.
Ladies & gentlemen, today is the friday 13th jan 2006.
Count down: 9 days
12:01
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Birthday Wish List
*Stay at 21 always
What else? Let's see...
*Bag
*People likes my wavy hair
*Mobile phone
*A pair of kappa shoes
*Watch
I have no idea what else I want, really. Too many to list out, I guess.
Count down to birthday ------ 11 more days ------
21:16
Monday, January 09, 2006
I am super angry today. Two things happened.
1. A certain module proj mate told me that we'll be discussing that project today after school. Hence, I brought my laptop. In the end, we didn't discuss about the project. My laptop is heavy, mind you!
2. A friend left me stranded at our meeting place. The person told me that he/she forgot about it. It's a good thing that I didnt wait for the person for 5 min. Yea... You got me. That's what I am saying.
23:33
Things seem a little better. At we waved "hi" to each other. Probably there will be an even better change after we meet up and hear what he has to say about his life for the past few months. I do not hold much hope about this friendship. Of course, there is a chance of resurrection. I believe that.
What Leadership files has said about friendship is very true. The reason why many Christians give up on their walk with God is because they do not have anyone trustworthy to share what is in their mind and what are the struggles they are facing in life. This is all too true as I see some of them leaving me as time go by. It's all a process. Nothing happens overnight. Success and failure does not happen overnight. This is true 99% of time. The remaining 1% just tells you that it does not happen because somebody didn't attempt anything at all. Ouch! That hurt... Oh well...
Dr Joyce Meyer came to our church on saturday. It was a great time of lesson and reflection for me. There are some weaknesses and strengths that we have. Keep working on our strengths and giving our weaknesses to God. Our weaknesses is made perfect in His strength! After going for all the 3 services, I have come to summarized in 3 points:
1. Focus on the small little things that look so insignificant, but yet they mean a lot to people around you.
2. Be bold. Be a giant.
3. Have righteousness, peace & joy in your life.
12:35
Monday, January 02, 2006
Happy Belated New Year 2006! Guess now I need to get used to writing the date as _/_/2006. All of us do... e343 celebrated LingLing's birthday on the first day of the new year! She likes it. The green top, the birthday card and everything else! I'm glad she likes it.
Some more resolution for 2006
Anyway, here's it:
-spiritual >>> 2 students below YR3 to be integrated and discipled by the end of 2006
-financial >>> start-up salary > $1400
>>> save $960 this year
-recreation >>> music theory grade 5
-others >>> lose weight (amount of weight to lose is a secret)
Some others are still K.I.V. in my mind.
Tomorrow is the start of school term. It's the last term, mind you!
I may not have time to blog after today. But don't be disappointed.
If I ever have bad days and good days, I will be back!
Whatever... I'll be back.
11:24
Sheryl Eunice Xia Xue'er
created on 22/01/1985
Working in Biopolis
Serving in a great CG e343!
orchestra ministry!
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