Love
never gives up,
never loses faith,
is always hopeful,
and,
of course,
endures through
every circumstance.
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!
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Sheryl Eunice Xia Xue'er
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