Resolutions!

Ahh.. it's that time of the year again.. Time for New year resolutions!

some people don't believe in NYR, but no matter whether you achieve them at all, it at least sets some direction for the new year ahead so at least you don't go through the year drifting around and regretting them at the end of the year...

http://www.melancholicjoy-mood.blogspot.com/search/label/New%20Year%20Resolutions

That was my resolutions set last year.. but looks like the only thing that I've achieved is my black belt.. which i was really ecstatic about. something good happened in 2010 which wasn't expected, so that was a sweet ending to 2010 =) in my previous blog which i listed down the list of blessings, at the end of 2010, i have tonnes to thank God for.

Now for the new year,
1) Do a bible study of 3 minor prophets or 2 major books.
2) have a more consistent prayer time, talk to Him more.
3) Putting in more effort for cell ministry
4) Get training or certified in PM
5) spend more time at home / spread out my appointments so i don't end up going out every day...
6) try to lose 3 kg & maintain my TKD (improve my full range)
7) build up r/s

Whew.. that will do, walk with God, personal life, ministry, work and sports.. =)

hope i can hit some of them =)=)

A^E

finlly..over.... happy to see ray and sylvia married.. good for both of them :) hope they enjoy nz for their honeymoon :)though damn shag for rest of us.. but its fun, this batch of bros are fun and nice.. but then.. if they are good friends of ray, i'm sure they are nice ppl

second time in 2 years i gotta check into A&E myself... thurs overwhelmed with chest pain.call my insurance agent to check on payout (my friend suan me say u aregoing A^E n the first person u call is regardng payout *faint* )but he send me to hospital instead..by then i was squirming in pain and rolling around n they push me immediately to critical care.. although i was feeling better after medicine,but since i high risk n family history so had to stay in thruout the day for further observations..doc duno stupid or funny when he see me hesistate he still say "don'tworry , lunch and dinner provided" i'm like liew, like it's the first thing i'm worrying about like that... but thankfully discharged with possibility of heart attack ruledout.this week gotta go to SHC to see the cardiologist for further follow up..

guess the pain is on nd off.. yesterday night eat the painkillers, today feelbetter.. so chiong gym. but i gotta take it easy, just in case.but i miss working out.. 2whole weeks siah... tak boleh tahan liao..

aiyo..today,somebody comment, wah your shoulder like wearing shoulder pads hor...*slaps forehead*.... though the person meant it as "compliment",dunno whether to laugh or cry.. hahahha

busy busy

can't wait for final week of
December to come.. 4th dec - xmas movie event
preparation
5th Dec - Sylvia's hen night
6th Dec - prep for mission trip
7th dec - company event
8th dec - Tkd training 9th Dec - cell group
10th dec- ? prep for mission trip
11 - 12th - Bintan trip
13th - Tkd training
14th - movie with sis?
15th - Company event 16th - cell group
17th - X mas celebration with
Denise n gang
18th - Ray n Sylvia wedding
19th - lunch with en en ?

OMG....

super off

Finally it's over. Dont need to keep thinking about the event Liao . Thank god for the many good things that had happened. But I got a feeling I screwed up, n I ended with a sinking feeling in my stomach.....n ended d night feeling I screwed big time in other areas...

or maybe it's really nt a good timing since i barely recovered from the drain of the event, and looking ahead in december, there absolutely is not much time for rest.....

Best weekend I have in a long time . :) :)

week

my keyboard sux.. so i'm also not inclined to do anything on my pc anything that requires me to type a lot.

whole week fly by.. finally go back tkd training.. although only free to go down on monday ... holiday was spent at home being a maid..

watch harry porter on friday, even i'm not a fan and have not watched a single HP show.. but company was good and the night was enjoyable =), so it was a good start to weekend. then it was tkd night event and dinner... then crashed marc's friend's birthday..got a chance to check out suite at ritz carlton.. maybe i should do something like dat too..

another week ahead.. think i'm falling sick..looking forward to my leave on dec2 and the compulsory christmas week leave. i need a break manz.. (but wat's new?)

=)

it was a good weekend last week... good one.. looking forward to the coming weekend =)

CAB driver

it feels so good to work out and push myself at the gym..w/o having to restrain myself.. easy to run since i'm watching Hulk and EMA on tv at the same time.. time flies like that...CANT WAIT TO GET BACK TO MY BAGS!

i love taking cabs..u find one of the most interesting folks there..some of cos are shitty.. but a huge majority are really nice to talk to. like this one today .. punjab pretty young for taxi driver.. 35.. but speaks fluent malay (his second language),speaks wonderful mandarin and hokkien. His hokkien is definitely better than mine.. very entertaining, funny and can really have TWO way conversation (notice some drivers are expert at carrying one way conversation :p),and he is a 2nd Dan tkd black belt.... hahahha....cool manz...this definitely left an impression.. plus he give 40 cents discount hoho.. possibly by entertaining him back.. hahah

it was a long weekend of church and family time. shiok that didn't do much, including gym(unfortunately-maybe that 's why monday blue so bad!)

super monday blue. poor philip gotta tahan me during lunch :p

thank god for the people that made me smile last week though..=)

It's an interesting month, it's a catching up of old friends. First it was with sakae mates whom we've not met for 6-8 years. Then with daliya which was a couple of yrs. Then with another bunch of hp colleagues which was at least 3 yrs.

and i've gained weight! Nov & till before christmas will be fight the fats month!! N i'll stop my pole cos it doesn't burn as much calories (though it's quite fun hanging upside down inside out horizontally vertically whatever like a monkey :p ) + it's impeding my tkd and PT training .. and i'm getting back to tracking food intake on myhealth.sg cos it's a bit out of control.. battle time! kacha!

Rwanda

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8593734.stm

Cool! Rwanda has become the least corrupt country in east africa. In fact it's ranking has surpassed italy...!

Well e critics are always harping on lack in human rights but also kudos to Paul kagame for managing life after e genocide so well. Corruption decrease, prosperity and education improve. sure sure, there are reports of human rights abuse, exile and imprisonment without trial.. but i feel in a country with a past like that,you can view the way they run the country with a western country's perspective. well... if the west ignored them and refused help but just sit and watch while people are massacred in the genocide, why should they listen to them judge the way they run the country now?

I like one sentence mentioned , "There is no hutu, no tutsi, only Rwandan".

alamak..

alamak..before i got time to update on bali i haveKL trip..








eugene was really nice.. fetch us froM KL sentral to hotel.. and brought us arond whole day..and even though he was tired, he didn't say it and brought us to luna bar near KL towers till 1 plus am..cool..and daliya was sweet enough to come up still even though she is back to back with work.. and good that she brought fara cos i miss her too..i'll definitely be bck for longan drinkin petaling street and KLzouk haha ..and shopping with lingfang was cool.. she is a great shopper siah.

but gonna be busy liao.. got a list o fpending things for the christmas event.. things in tkd i've not touched... my pole class missed.. and i need to lose the weight i've gained..

can't spend liao next month.. should try to stop going YJ for whole of nov ... save some money and take a break from going watch JM and kreuger.

Piracy in Somalia

Yet another news in africa, this of cos is nothing new. The hijacking has been going on for a long time. & no matter how much naval ships e international community has sent in,they can nvr clamp down e piracy.

We all know some of e implications; insurance & petrol usage increase, shipping prices increase which get passed down e chain to shippers & consumers, less traffic to the area less $ etc etc

There are no sufficient reasons that could justify violence like this. Ignoring e perpetual piracy off indo -south china sea (which is at least manageable) & e situation in nigeria which is more political, here's an interesting insight for e somalia situation that's to me less commonly reported.

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8010061.stm

It's because of e lawlessness that piracy is so rampant in e area. However it's also because of this lawlessness that the international mega fishing community takes advantage of by fishing in excess in the area. With no proper control, e poor fishermen's livelihood are wrecked. Coupled that with the perpetual strife & wars between e militants n government forces makes life a worse state back on land.

bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11216325
With 230 people killed + bodies are pilng up in the back alley n lives risked just to get necessities, contrast that to being a local hero with cars and business by being a pirate, I would choose being one 2.

Mass Rape in Congo

angry.. when i read this article on bbc regarding the mass rapes that the army and militants are carrying out..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8677637.stm

this lady has her husband leaving her after she was raped because he said she is dirty.. and this is after she had made the sacrifice to be raped instead of her husband being killed.

the researcher says, the husbands can't deal with the fact that they can't protect their wives and they feel like failures, so the only way is to leave them and start over.

another soldier said: "I felt that if I didn't have sex then I would get sick" so what if they are living n the forest and they felt like that when they come out? does it give them the right to force upon the women then?

the soldiers felt it's their right to rape the women, the husbands felt the women have "dirtied" themselves.. who can stand up for these women then???

Thanksgiving =)

Thank God she got a placement in NIE, and for a pretty good school. Any earlier she might not have gathered enough experience. God’s timing is always perfect ^_^

I like what Pastor Lim shared in his email blast to the members..

[Satan tells you it is not worthwhile to do what you are doing for your family. The truth is God sees all your efforts. Be faithful, even if others are not responsive!....
Satan tells you that you are incompetent and inadequate. The truth is God can and will work through your weakness to perfect His will!
Satan tells you to give up. The truth is when Christ is Lord, we are more than conquerors….]

My mind is a battlefield all the time.. God says, continue to renew our mind in Him and place our hopes in Him. My sis reminded me that I already have a lot of blessings in Him, so it’s a good thing to remember His blessings for me then..

1. I have an awesome family. One of best parents in the world with awesome values and characters. Awesome sisters who are my sane voices and mind, buddies and best friends. And awesome brother in laws with great values in life and also dote on me.
2. I have a job and allows me to have more than sufficient
3. I relatively have colleagues that I can click with
4. I don’t have any major sickness and illness
5. I have friends in my life and friends who accept me for who I am and I know will be there for me if I ask them.
6. Church mates who are understanding and wonderful to me.
7. I’m given the opportunity to attain my black belt
8. I’m healthy enough to do Acropolates which I love now.
9. I have an honest and awesome gym trainer.
10. I’m happy with the way I look (well except the many inches I could lose, which well thank god for point 9 then )
11. I’m not in need and not in debt.
12. And most of all, I have Jesus with me and in me. Peace that only He can give if I remain in Him and Him in me. Apart from Him, I can do nothing and Thank God for His amazing grace and love that He loves me for who I am and no matter what I did right or wrong can make Him love me more or less.

Shall update my bali trip in another post.

Random week

Loads of random thoughts.

REMEMBER YOUR REDEEMeR.

Ppl are usually stuck in the past, like what ps meng cham is preaching abt today, whereas im more stuck in e hope that things will be better in e future + 2 caught up in e present. Im thankful for my past cos it has brought me to where I am, it's e future im worried abt. But e moment we worry too much, it's also a sign that we do not trust God enough, which is something He told me b4...

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Need to figure out a way to sort out my life. Maybe it's really too busy for my own good, but I love every single thing that im doing now, hobbies, work & ministry

Read on a train ad, "There is a calmness to life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy."
pretty true.. except that we are living in gratitude of what God has done for us..

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Going bali nxt week w rach & nicky . Shld be fun:) then kl with lingfang. With eugene & daliya showing us around.

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the topic of buying a car cropped up again after my BIL bought one, or rather replaced his current one which survives on water not petrol :p hahhah.. keep scouting at sgcarmart.com, calculating my budget and all.. and really on the verge of going down.. but contemplated for a while, I'm enjoying the spare cash and doing and buying whatever I want and need, which wont' be the case if i buy a car.. so decided to scrap the idea.. I have better things to do with it :)

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Some time ago.. our family mid autumn fesitval celebration =)



Sheri's malay wedding is fantastic .. and great time with Fiza, hooi li and jackie :)

Had a great catch up with haz also, yeah girl.. let's go for a cruise trip manz :) and probably NZ =)