i got influenced by selsel to make a loop back to the start of 2007. so it's finally coming to the end of 2007. an awesome year, indeed. an eventful year, oh wait.. let's take a loop.

Jan:

• {singapore} visited timor leste - memo-ed as the most amazing days i've ever had.


• holiday-ed at bali


• vision night at shatec
• met up with ling & mel for bombers

Feb:

• {sin-perth} manage to squeeze CNY in before flying back


• shalom only girls outing no.1


• moved into portland street with new housemates - doll, bai, pinkie


• school starts - last semester - end with a bang!


• a different nedlands altogether - the previous batch graduated, new people join us. i remembered feeling really weird that 'that's all we're left with', gotta move on and embrace the present but i couldn't help looking back to the nedlands 2006.


• Made my first home-cooked dinner.

Mar:

• {perth} trying period. took me a great leap of faith to just let go and embrace the present.


• made really awesome tennis khakis - kuo wei and we played tennis thrice a week ever since. thinking back, i really miss those nights we played tennis till midnight.


• figured my spot at matilda bay


• roadtrip to swan valley with cheryl and lydia =)

Apr:

• didn't manage to wake up for prosh again! =(


• harbourtown, i mean it's not only in april but like every other day and i can't possibly leave that out cause it has become part of my life. i am missing it badly, can you believe it?
• had my first decent super authentic south indian + north indian meal with an indian - leon, jay and ameet and i met dr. arnold tan on that very day. =)

May:

• received a distinction for international commercial law assignment and suddenly realise ilecture with sam raj was quite enjoyable.


• mum, dad & dorcas came to perth to visit.

Jun:

• exams were as usual long and tiring but fruitful


• selling of furnitures and clearing up the entire house


• smelling the lavendars for the final time.


• had ciao tiramisu for the last time.


• surprised party by BSC clique at sentosa


• my first at the luge ride.

Jul:

• employed at wotif.com
• stepped into vivo for the first time
• esta's 21st
• i turn 22 - fruity theme
• enrolled in JPLT with selsel, eddie-san, jenny
• i caught my first prawn at my first prawning trip with bsc clique. =)

Aug:

• shopping at bangkok with kok, eddie-san, selsel
• ventured New York City =) =)
• watched phantom of the opera on broadway
• shopped at old navy, american eagle, urban outfitters outlets
• survived my first tornado
• uncle bruce left for heaven

Sep:

• roadtrip to albany
• having 3.50 honey chicken rice for the last time
• met eugene, dory for the first time in perth
• convocation at UWA
• ventured into night safari for the first time

Oct:

• Dim Sum Dollies with shalommmm! =)
• my first music concert - the black eyed peas & click 5 with leetheng
• evelyn's 21st

Nov:

• you see those advertorials in Her World/Brides, Simply Her, and the pink pages for dec issues, yeah, i did those. i'm proud of myself.
• justin + belinda's wedding
• shalom ver0.0 had our reunion
• first shopping trip with mr foo.

Dec:

• receive offer letter for honours at UWA
• ventured johor with my bro, brand, yongen, jess.
• silver bands braces
• stepped into holland village for the first time
• island cremery first time - tiger beer sorbet
• watched the sunrise for the 1st time in the longest time.
• 19 dec with mr. de souza. =)
• the first time i took notice of the decorations at orchard
• silly neoprints with alvin for the first time
• i'm part of the organising team for Smash 2007. YAY!

okie, now i'm feeling abit emo. i need a hug and i need a walk. but what i can say, i had my fair share of trials and character moulding which stretched me at times, and also my continual overwhelming share of blessings. =)

{.Your love is extravagant.}




"i've been dreaming of a true love's kiss.."

yepp, i watched enchanted again, but this time with joy, jo, ally and i still think it's pretty neat. the princess giselle (Amy Adams) is pretty la, dunno why all the guys i asked think the cartoon version is prettier. oh wells, to each its own. her curls are nice. i love how she can make her own dresses, i wish i could, but needles and me are so not buddies.

i'm so glad to have you back, Jo! we're gonna have to do more before people start leaving againnnn. =/

it's all up to You, really.
but i guess i really have to desire it, seek it with all my heart huh.
sorry for not making enough time for You
sorry for not giving You enough room
sorry for being lazy with my mumbles
but You do know that i love You still
and i can't never do without You by my side.
i'm still trusting You
and singing evermore
just like i mentioned to Joy, you showed me Your hands at work in my life.
it's wonderful, Lord.
keep me in step, ya!

thank You for giving me a companion
whom i hope will be my forever friendfriend
to be Your arms of encouragement and love.
i love You, Jesus.
deep down in my heart.

{.Your love is extravagant.}






{.Your love is extravagant.}






{.Your love is extravagant.}








{.Your love is extravagant.}




i hate feeling it this way.
i'm losing my appetite.
arghhh. get a life!
get a life already, rach.

i miss yst's lunch.

{.Your love is extravagant.}




have u ever been so angry that you can't wait to strangle that annoying fella?
and sometimes it gets so bad that your heart weighs so much that it might burst and heated tears flow out. is it good to control the feelings or just let it out with a scream?
times like these i wish i was staying alone.

have you ever heard a song for the first time and it made you cry?

have you ever had so much excitement within just waiting to burst and someone just had to take it away?

have you ever dream like you ate a huge feast and woke up one morning and realise you couldn't?


yes, i just did. all in a day's work.
oh man, can you believe the day just started!

oh wells, i will still say. this is the day the Lord has made, and I will rejoice in it!
i reckon i'm not the only unique one that ever came across a bad start to a day right, so whatever happens, my response is the most important.

all for Your glory!
this is so gonna be a good day! awesome.

{.Your love is extravagant.}




i just received an offer package from uwa for honours!
there's a sense of joy inside of me that just made my heart leap, a feeling i can't explain.

i have no idea why, but it just suddenly dawn on me that i'm really really accepted for honours. it's like a repeat of what it felt like years ago when i just got my offer package to study for my degree. but this feels double the joy.

funny ain't it, that i'm feeling this sense of joy in my calmness, but yet i'm not quite going. or rather i havent yet decided if i should go.

arghh! decisions are never easy.

why does it keep happening like that.. like how i decided that i'm going, and then something tells me i'm not and okay, i decide i'm not going and then the letter comes and this overwhelming sense of joy accompanies it and i wonder am i going or what?

so now what?

am i just so weak! always getting swayed so easily. i'm such a block of wood.

i need to arise.. erm.. can someone shine some light onto my path please..
you, yes, You, jesus, please just do your thing!

on another note, i caught full of it and mr magorium's back to back at lido with the cousins. haha. i was like full of what? full of it. oh you mean full of shit? yeah, that practically describes the movie. from us.. we have total bad reviews for it. don't worth watching, really crappy show.

mr mag's really good. the show's like magical and touching. It speaks about the simple things of life and how you just have to believe in yourself and arise! never say you can't.

it's like how we humans are made with talents and total capacity of who we were made to be. And all these talents are just waiting to burst out from within us but we often lack courage, confidence of who we are. That we see ourselves as a block of wood, but actually, a block of wood can do wonders, all you need is to believe in yourself and arise.

yepp, it's speaking to me.

{.Your love is extravagant.}




if there's one person i admire. it would be nick vujicic. he's one person that inspires and encourages me. he magnified God and for the first time i met him, i felt small. really small. I am truly amaze at the wonders of how God works.

i mean it's not as if i didn't know God works in mighty ways, ways that i can never imagine, but true enough, God never fails to amaze me through nick. you can read nick's testimony here. it's just so amazing what wonderful things can be done through us, as long we choose to obey.

nick's story inspires me to really count my blessings each day, to never take anything for granted, dare to dream and set goals for myself. below is an excerpt from his story which spoke to me.

" I had complete peace knowing that God won't let anything happen to us in our life unless He has a good purpose for it all. I completely gave my life to Christ at the age of fifteen after reading John 9. Jesus said that the reason the man was born blind was "so that the works of God may be revealed through Him." I truly believed that God would heal me so I could be a great testimony of His Awesome Power. Later on I was given the wisdom to understand that if we pray for something, if it's God's will, it'll happen in His time. If it's not God's will for it to happen, then I know that He has something better. I now see that Glory revealed as He is using me just the way I am and in ways others can't be used. "

after reading max lucado's cure for the common soul, everyday He's fine-tuning me and even through Nick, He is speaking to me. God is just so marvellous. through all the struggles and pain, You're there. indeed my beautiful Saviour, the only One who understands me the best and yet loves me even more than I can comprehend. Jesus, You melt me.

Thank you, Lord.



I look to You, Lord
Your love that never ends
Restores me again

So I lift my eyes to you Lord
In your strength will I break through Lord
Touch me now, let your love fall down on me
I know your love dispels all my fears.

Through the storm I will hold on Lord
And I pray I will hold on, Lord

{.Your love is extravagant.}




i finally know how to get to holland village. met the babes for burger king which i didn't eat, obviously. i really don't understand what's so nice about mushroom swiss, oh please don't tell me i'm missing out. haha. cause i figured not. haha



anyway, i hope u did get your free drinks at starbucks last thursday, support the salvation army! we did, and the queue filled with all the loving people who donated started before we got there. we arrived at 4.50pm la, quite kiasu right. haha.

it was raining heavily then, and i witness the countdown to free starbucks. it was hilarious when they did a booboo during the speech. but nonetheless, it's all good. i had my mocha praline frappe! =)

the american pie part is not very exciting la, i dunno why i don't watch greys/heroes/scrubs/house and whatsoever. i'm a bad teevee show partner, i fall asleep during the most exciting part of greys/heroes/scrubs/house. haha.

anyway, then we met the guys for seafood at cherry ave where we had the usual chilli crabs and butter prawns and etc. did i mention the mantou is HUGE la, it swirl here and there and made it looked curly and wavy. haha delicious mantou.

and headed off to...


for some save-for-thy-tooth frozen dessert! i bought a tub of tiger sorbet!! teeheeex.

i like the horlicks with extra horlicks powder and strawberry sorbet.

{.Your love is extravagant.}




The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. - Socrates

so what or rather how do i desire to appear?
hmmmm...(rach thinks hard)i wanna be filled with loads of love, plenty of joy, God's peace, patience for kids/old people/siblings/irritating people, everlasting kindness, total goodness like cranberry juice, gentleness as a lady, faithfulness, self-control, and exudes confidence.

oh anyway, i just bought my tigger toothbrush, it feels fun to be a kid! Met my cousin at the clinic earlier on and yepp, it's still feel as if she's older than me probably because she's married. But in fact, she's a year younger.

eunice just invited me to her wedding, teck&sue just got married last week, jeff&qiqi are engaged. i mean, it's not true that people are pushing back their marriage by the years. it just comes when you find your happily ever after, yeah!

so the point is, oops, i forgot the point of this entry.

anyway, on another note, i can't wait to exclaim, i've got old school teeth set. haha.

ta*

{.Your love is extravagant.}




Been taggged by oranger cass.
I am oblige to perform this duty of care in nothing but the absolute truth.

1. You can only answer either guilty or innocent.

2. You are not allowed to explain anything unless someone messages you and asks! (So people reading this, if you want an explanation...mEssage that person)

GAME:

Danced on a table in a bar?
A: guilty

Ever told a lie?
A: guilty

Had feelings for someone whom you can't
have?
A: guilty

Kissed a picture?
A: innocent

Slept in until 5 PM?
A: guilty

Fallen asleep at work/school?
A: guilty

Held a snake?
A: guilty

Worked at a fast food restaurant?
A: innocent

Sang karaoke?
A: guilty

Done something you told yourself you
wouldn't?
A: guilty

Done something you regret?
A: guilty

Laughed until something you were drinking came out your nose?
A: innocent

Caught a snowflake on your tongue?
A: innocent

Kissed in the rain?
A: innocent

Sat on a roof top?
A: innocent

Been pushed into a pool with all your clothes on?
A: innocent

Shaved your head
A: innocent

Slept naked?
A: innocent

Been in a club?
A: guilty

Shot a gun?
A: innocent

Donated Blood?
A: innocent

Eaten alligator meat?
A: guilty

Eaten cheesecake?
A: guilty

Still love someone you "shouldn't"?
A: innocent

Have a tattoo?
A: innocent

Like someone, but will never tell who?
A: guilty

Hang out with people you shouldn't?
A: innocent

Wanted to do something, didn't do it, and regret it?
A: guilty

Been too honest?
A: guilty

Cursed at someone coz he/she's not calling?
A: innocent

Ruined a surprise?
A: innocent

Ate in a restaurant and got really bloated that you cant walk afterwards?
A: innocent

Erased someone in your friends list?
A: guilty

Dressed in a woman's clothes (if your a guy) man's clothes (if your a girl)?
A: innocent

Joined in a search for Mr Pogi pageant (if your a guy) Ms Beautiful pageant (if your a girl)?
A: innocent

Got totally drunk one night and you have an important exam tomorrow morning?
A: innocent

A total stranger treat you by paying your jeepney fare?
A: innocent

Get totally angry that you cried so hard?
A: guilty

hokay, i herby in compulsion tag:

evelyn p.
chui li
loocy
jo
joy
ina c.

{.Your love is extravagant.}

i made sticky date pudding on wednesday, that's like yesterday, yepp. and it was a success. mum actually thought it was bought. haha. happy grin*

Before i left for the supermarket to get groceries, i checked the freezer for vanilla ice cream and found a box of neopolitan.

when it was time for dessert, i whip open the ice cream container, and to my horror, it contained frozen chicken. faint.

moral of the story: ice cream containers are often recycled without ice creams.

leslie's quite an adorable hunk huh. caught this on my new personal assistant-cum- alarm clock. =)

cheers to a fruitful week ahead!
(hokay, the week is coming to an end, but it's never too late to began fruitfulness!)

{.Your love is extravagant.}




something to take the clouds away



{.Your love is extravagant.}




We live in a world now of plastic and glue
Disposable honor, replaceable truth
And if a pot breaks, why fix it? Man, what’s the use?
It costs less to buy it brand new

Oh but lately I’ve looked in the eyes of my wife
And I see there what matters the most in this life
And I have decided I’m takin’ a stand
To stay on that fifty year plan
Inspired by the words of a very wise man

He said, “Here’s to the makers of things built to last
Like church bells and bridges,and baseball on grass
Like Ferguson tractors and Lucchese boots
My daddy’s old tools I still use

The pledge of allegiance, the stars and the stripes,
The words in the Bible, the sun in the sky
And here’s to the twinkle in old married eyes
Still there after fifty years past
Here’s to the makers of things built to last
Here’s to the makers of things built to last

Heartland's Built to Last

Came across this song on imeem and i thought it quite relate to whatever my thoughts were for this evening. How often do we even repair stuff these days, and even making your own clothes and accessories cost more than buying them at stores.

Things come and go, clothes and styles changes like used tissue, and even more so marriages are becoming divorces so easily. But i'm glad that certain things will never change like the words in the Bible, and certain things we can choose for it to never change which is to marry someone and never divorce.

marriage is such an important decision man, the second most important lifetime decision ever! yeah, and i still believe in happily ever after! =)
kudos to those couples who celebrated their fifty year anniversary together. Some things were built to last - marriages, families ties, friends bond and of cause closeness with God!

{.Your love is extravagant.}




walking aimlessly

how come it's so easy to deceive ourselves
that we're lonely
that no one cares just because we wake up to no new messages on our phone.

how come it's so easy to be in denial
that everything we do is just pain dumb
that we made a stupid decision
and that we're idiots.

but the truth sure doesn't hurt this time, cause the above is far from the truth.
in fact, in actual fact, we ain't idiot and we don't have to live up to the expectations of other people except the One who made us.

it's nice always to be on the other side where the grass seems greener, but we're never reach the other side until we're fully contented.

gosh! my thoughts are very much random and as you can tell, i'm pretty much confused. i need a goal in life, i feel like i'm just walking round and round the promised land. the entry to the land of honey and milk is right before me, but why can't i see it?

do dreams come true? like dejavu.

it's quite uncertain the ways things are right now, but hasn't it always been this way, just that maybe this time it's much clearer that it's time to crave my own path, the road less travelled. the route that needs courage and loads of faith.

at this instance, i just feel like shouting what's happening to me, what is it that You want me to do, how long do i have to wait, what do i have to do in the mean time? i seriously miss mat bay.
i know you showed me a glimpse of it to get me off my feet and hold on tight, can You remind me again, please.

get me on my feet, please.

{.Your love is extravagant.}




got this from nad!

can you believe it? i'm only 13.6!!!
a young soul trapped in a 22 year old's body!
so brandon, i'm not that old k. haha.



to do this test: poodwaddle.com

just had the other side operated.
this time it isn't as painful, but the injection at the start was the killer, and dr goh was very forceful. i couldn't bear watching him in action, so i kept my eyes real shut. my head was practically being shaked, pulled and almost snapped off my neck, i tell'ya but it was speedy quick.

i survived! haha.

{.Your love is extravagant.}