Places I went and Places I want to go

Saturday

Tea Chapter at 9 Neil Road.
http://www.tea-chapter.com.sg
Had Tea Egg, Yam Buns, and Seaweed Rolls.
Drank Imperial Golden Cassia (If I remembered correctly) and Dong Ding Oolong Tea.
Played "Aeroplane chess" (somehow I did not play it in my childhood days) and Reversi (my favorite childhood game).

Sunday

Canele again. Yumz!
Had Club Honey Baked Ham sandwich, Le Royale cake and Bushmen Brew tea.
The food was great! For the tea, I need to choose some other tea next time.

We will Rock You - Musical at Esplanade.
Watched an musical at the Esplanade theatre for the 1st time.
Quite enjoyable but was quite tired too. :P
Was a great experience!
We sat at Circle 3 seats, so was at level 3. But tix was worthed about $95 each.
Praise God for free tix! :)

Places to visit / Activities to do in these 2 months

$10 KTV at Smith Street
Going up on Singapore Flyer
Cycling at East Coast Park
Beach volleyball at Sentosa

I like new things and new places!!!
Let me know if you have any new and nice place to introduce to me ok?

Letting go

Cellgrp and Service were great this week.

Was ministered to, at cg.

Ps 73:25-26
"Whom have I in heaven but You? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides You.
My flesh and my heart fail; But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever."

Indeed, God is the strength of my heart.
God's msg to me: "Let go."
God wants me to give Him my hurts, disappointments, pain, burdens...
Since Friday after cg, whenever I tot of the matter, I have started to tell myself to let go.

I feel that I am holding this thing too tightly.
I wonder why...
But, I guess through time, this has built up.
This is probably something I really want and I want it so badly.
But, I guess God is telling me that He knows better.
I think if only I will give up doing things my way for this area, He will finally come true for me.
God, I surrender this area to you. I do not want to be like Sarah, trying to help you do Your thing. Yet, I do not want to be passive. Help me to find a balance.

And yes, I will let go. If it is meant to be, You will give it to me.

Ps 27:14
Wait on the Lord; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord!

I'll wait...

For women only - Part 1

Bought this audio cd "For women only" on Sunday.
It is what you need to know about the inner lives of men.

Just listened to the 1st cd of the 4 cds.

The 1st point:
1. Men need respect.
I.e. Men would rather feel alone and unloved than inadequate and disrespected.

Men need respect while women need to be loved.
The bible tells wives to submit (respect) to their husbands and husbands to love their wives.
Eph 5:22, 5:25

What really stood up to me is the 3rd sentence below...

"Man do not let down their guard in front of other men. They are always in competition.
The only time a man's guard is completely down is with the woman he loves. "

No wonder the words a woman speaks to her man of the life are so important, that they can either build up or tear down.

So, we have to be very careful with the words we say. :D

Quotes about Love

Saw it in "The Leap Years" movie:

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
-- Saint Augustine

Saw it on the quotes website. It is so so true.
If you want to love, you have to be vulnerable to enjoy it.
And yah, vulnerability comes with the ability to love.

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
-- C.S. Lewis

Sometimes love feels like a dream. Is it a dream or is it just infatuation?
I am often a too direct person. Good or bad, you tell me?
I enjoyed that feeling.
But, I do not want to hurt myself.
And I do not want to hurt people. In fact, I am thinking how I can be a blessing now.

Friend, I enjoy communicating with you. I thought that our directions were pretty similar, but perhaps we were on parallel planes. Similar but never meeting. (Maths - lines).
Perhaps, I will enjoy things more if I learn to be more relaxed in my approach.
It was not easy for me, but I've learnt to stop "beating myself up" just becos I felt that I was doing silly things. God made me with emotions, so of cos I felt feelings. It is normal to have feelings, cos I don't have a heart of stone.
Friend, I hope I will still be a blessing to you! :)

Somehow I just have a feeling that something good will happen for me this year. As it is for K, let it be to me. Let it be to me, according to God's will for my life! =D

Life-check (1st Quarter)

Let's do a check since it is mid March now (Almost 1/4 of year will be gone).

2008 is a year of changes.
It will be a year of many breakthroughs.
I believe that this year, if I do things right with the right heart and attitude... I am going to succeed!

- Still very true.
- Actually I recently feel that indeed this is going to be a very different year for me!

To make this a Turning Point year, the factors are:
Courage
Faith
Diligence
Discipline
Hard work
Skills upgrading/development
Stepping out
Openness to new things/people
Pursuing leaders in my life

- Need more of each.
- Need to make a deliberate attempt at Skills upgrading/development, Stepping out, Openness to new things/people and Pursuing leaders in my life.

What is important to me?
God
Friends
Family
Work
Money

- Need more time for family.

Focus

1. My relationship with God.- Greater intimacy.
- Is increasing
2. My relationship with siblings and parents.
- Loving and serving.
- Need improvement
3. My relationship with CGL, ministry leader and my boss.
- Getting to know them, knowing their hearts, serving and taking action to help fulfill their visions.
- Need improvement. Probably can start by praying for them.
4. My relationship with a few key friends.
- Being a blessing, being supportive/encouraging/challenging, helping them towards their goals.
- Thank God that I was there to listen that day.
- Can be more encouraging =) I need to be sensitive to needs.
5. My relationship with a few disciples.
- Helping them to grow and step into their potential.
- Encouraged by the enthusiasm and willingness by 1 of them. It is so much easier to work as a team, compared to working alone.
- Little improvement with one.
- Stagnant with two.
- Will find grace, love from God to continue in this area. Need a bigger heart.
6. My relationship with my soul mate.
- Making of new friends, getting to know people more, preparing myself to be a confident-pretty-smart-anointed-caring woman.
- Need to meet new friends.
- Did get to know new people better.
- Preparation-wise: Physically, I think I dress better at times. Intellectually, I think I better start doing more. Read a bit recently, but nothing much. Anointing level: Growing as I rely on God more. Caring level: Can afford to be less D at times, smile more, relax more.
- Tag line: Love and continue loving and blessing
7. Work
- Finding greater purpose at work, Learning new things, Managing people and projects.
- Skills upgrading
- Nearly got burnt out at work.
- Have to really maximise time and concentration during work hours.
- Start to look for possible courses.
8. Money
- Earn more money. Increase in 20% of pay by end 2008.
- Find ways to increase $$ streams.
- Find direction from God.
9. Health- Exercise and eat healthily.
- No exercise yet. :S
- Eating relatively healthier already.

2008 will be the best year ahead for you and me! :)
I have the gut feeling that this year will really be a great one for me! And I believe God will do the same for you too! :)
You will emerge victoriously from your trial/wilderness, Jiayou!

"Released" acts/places

Recent places that I went to since I was "released" from the 3 weeks intensive work "camp".

Vivocity
http://www.vivocity.com.sg/
I went Vivocity with my mum on Monday and we dressed up.
Haha! She was saying that she never wear her that dress and doesn't have a chance to. So since she wore that dress, I wore a dress too and also used a necklace that I only used for the 2nd time.

We went to eat at Sushi Tei at about 4pm. The sad thing was that the food wasn't nice. Not fresh kind. So quite waste our money and "expectations", sigh.
Then we shopped around a bit. We only bought a tank top each. $11.90 and $10.00 respectively. Haha, din see stuff that we really wanted.
Since we dressed up, of course we took photos. :)

Faber Point
http://www.nparks.gov.sg/park21.asp
As we drove out of Vivocity, I told my mum that I feel like going up to Mount Faber. Then she said but out of the way. But later found out that it along the way. So she was very sporting, and
said "let's go!". So we went up.

I wanted to find out how Jewel Box was like since it looks nice on Brochures and heard is not bad. But too bad, it was a level higher than the road, so I did not get to see it. So we drove on... Then came one of the side. And mum asked me to go out and take a look 1st in case we can't stop anyway to park the car. So took a look at the view. After that, she parked the car and we went to explore a bit. And we found the Faber Point mini park. So not bad lah, got to enjoy some breeze and night view. Quite happy!

Plaza Singapura
http://www.plazasingapura.com.sg/
Had lunch and went shopping with Karista in the afternoon on Wed. Then we watched The Leap Years.
I thought it would be a logical ending. But well, it was the unexpected. She ended up with the guy that she met 1 time on her 6th birthday and another time on her 7th birthday. Got together finally on her 8th birthday or something. Btw, her birthday are counted in 4s, cos her birthday is on 29th Feb. Probably just telling us that dreams do come through. I wonder if that the reason that I like to watch movies. Getting into a different world.

Marina at Keppel Bay
http://www.marinakeppelbay.com
Evening time, I went to Viv's house. Then went to eat at chinatown hawker centre with Viv and D.
Went to Marina at Keppel Bay to walk walk after that. I like the sea. Just walking by the sea on the edge of the whole area feels good. Did not walk the entire edge but I still enjoyed my walk. I just like it the feeling of being near the sea.

To Viv and I, this kind of places are romantic places.
We were saying that next time, we can go on double dates since we like the same places.
I was saying what if our boyfriends do not get along well? She said they have to lah, cos we are good friends. Haha!

Canele Patisserie Chocolateria
http://www.canele.com.sg
Went to the Raffles City one with Pw, Bs and Yuanlue on Thursday. Realised that they have branches at Robertson Walk area and Paragon, didn't know that earlier. I like this place. Went there with Viv once to have tea once. We had flower tea and had cake. Like the atmosphere and food. So there we go again. This time to try the main course. Turned out good too. But we were too full for dessert, a pity. :P Next time, I will go again. :)

Neglected blog

I have neglected my dear blog once again for quite a while.
During that period was the busy 3 weeks + of work.
My camera did not have updates during that period. Haha, poor camera...

Where do I begin?

Recently, I had the not so good appetite. Duno if it was due to the long period of 3+ weeks of work and overtime or what. Now quite ok liao.

But hor, recently I have been pretty unmotivated to work.

Then these days, I don't want to talk at times.
Or rather, when I get home, I don't really feel like talking.
Perhaps I have finished using my words quota for the day. :P
So these days, when i dun want to talk I will just take my guitar and play.
Hope my mum doesn't find that I am going mad...