dilemma!!!

Harlow everyone!!!

It's getting pretty quiet in here...where's everyone??? come back!!! harharhar...anyway, I have a piece of good news to share! Heh...

I woke up today feeling rather sluggish and my throat was really causing me distress so I decided to abandon my original plans of going to MOE to make another A'Level cert (they destroyed the original 'coz I forgot to collect last time). I was lazing in bed when my crazy neighbours started their drilling again. I don't know why but they have been drilling got the past FEW YEARS. I'm not exagerating (hmm...spelling looks funny...anyway...)!!! Every week at least one morning will be filled with drilling noises that drive me crazy!!! Anyway, I started whining and moaning to God about how pathetic my life is, how sick I feel and how could he allow crazy people to use drills.....blahblahblah...then....................I received.....................

AN SMS.

harharh...drama me...it was emmeline asking me if I had applied for any jobs yet. I told her I was sick and didn't feel like doing anything and that I was waiting for replies from the jobs that I had applied for through the school webbie. To cut a long story short, she was on MC 'coz she needed some time to study for her exams and she asked me to stop being lazy and get out of the house to look for a job or go shopping or swimming. She said she was stuck at home 'coz she had to study and I could be doing more meaningful things (like shopping! harharharh!!!). Anyway, I took her advice and went to Recruit Express, it's a job agency. And guess what people???

YES. I GOT OFFERED A JOB ON THE SPOT.

Harharhar...the consultant asked me if I wanted to do what he's doing and I said I don't know, so he asked me to think about it and call him on Friday if I wanted to go through a second and more in depth interview. He rambled on abit about what the job is about : Recruitment Consultant. Honestly, it seemed rather interesting. 'Coz I'll get to meet people, it's not super desk bound, I get to interview people (heh!), its basic pay plus commission for every client I match to a job....well....here comes the dilemma...I've applied for other positions which I think are rather good, especially this management trainee program with L'Oreal and I'm still waiting for a reply. I asked emmeline what she thought and she said I could go through the interview first, learn more about the job and I wouldn't have to give an immediate reply. This way I could buy more time to consider and to pray about the job too. I thought this was pretty good advice, but I'm torn!!! Should I try for this position or wait for a better one???

The consultant talking to me said although it's difficult to decide on a career to embark on, I had to decide some time soon and he said that it was a big step, but an unavoidable step. How true. BUT it's not just a step to me! It's a huge LEAP of faith! By the way, he told me he was from SAJC too. Singapore so small can. Please pray for me kae!!!

Desperately in need of divine wisdom,
rach

Friend in need...

Working during this sch holidays has never been in my mind. I just wanted to take a good rest before my school reopens in july... lazy me, you might think but i feel that i deserve taking long rest after 4 months of busy school work which often caused me to have limited sleep almost everyday... hee... :)

However, after enjoying rotting at home for the 1st 2 weeks, things start to change....

A secondary sch friend of mine who had a part time job, found a perm job recently. She asked if i could take over her part time job as she couldn't find another replacement. As it is only 2 days per week so i accepted it lor...

Within a week, my JC friend called me and she sounded very desperate. She had just finished her UNI exams and had a tuition job. After she taught a lesson, she recieved another job opportunity that clashes with the tuition timing. As she prefer the later job, she asked if i could help her to complete the next 7 lessons for her.. The level of the tuition kid is only pri 1 so i thought that it shouldn't be a problem... so i accepted it... thinking that to help a friend, why not??... :)

I felt like a "helpline" at that time but as mentioned earlier, to help a friend, why not??... hee.. keke..i love my holidays...!!

fen.fen

Just venting my frustrations

Ever experience when you are going an extra mile for people's convenience and then still get criticised by them or they simply take you for granted? Well, I do, lots of times too.

Last weekend after band practice, i went to make some copies of my music scores. As usual, there will be people trying to cut queue to zap their own pieces. Some even better, just dump their scores to me and give me a big smile expect me to help them to print and walk away. What?! I'm your automatic photocopier ar? or do i have "photocopying service provided" written on my face?!!

Though it's not a huge fussy issue, print scores only ma but its just so unfair to those who make the efforts to queue up and make their own copies! then why bother to queue up next time? might as well bump everything to me. Not only that, they still can complain and say i'm SLOW!!

Well, if you can copy them faster than i do, then you go ahead to do it! i doubt there is anybody in the band who can print faster than i do. So dont you come nag at me when i'm printing YOUR SCORES! argh... so mad! i almost wanted to just dump the scores onto the copier and walk away and say "print it yourself"
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Am i that unfortunate to keep having these kind of people around me? like at work, at school, at home and even now at band. Or is it simply me? or they think i seldom blow up means i don't blow up at all?

My patience and my tolerance has reached it threshold limit and is diminishing...

Keeping meself in check:
"Love is patient, Love is kind" 1 corin 13 <-- I'm not loving them enough maybe thats why

My first Guitar lesson

I had my 1st lesson last friday and it was fun!!
It reminded me of my band practices when i was in sec 1 in Band, everyone was blurr with the instrument.. haha..

Luckily the lesson is only 1 hour because my left fingers are in pain!! especially my little pinky finger which needs to hold the finest string... Nevertheless, I enjoyed the class very much and i'm looking forward to the next lesson!!!

Hmmm.. finally i manage to be able to accomplish this goal (learning guitar) this time. I enjoy music and learn a variety of instruments too!! but please spare me from the theroies... HEee... I love my Holidays!! :)

Irene_fen.fen

examz are over!

harlow everyone!!!

my examz are finally over!!! finally!!! Just had my last paper yesterday. 60 MCQs in 2 hours. Sounds easy right??? harharhar...but it's not!!! The lecturer really made it super difficult. I took the whole of 2 hours to work those questions out! Anyway, I'm just so happy it's over for now. Heh. But the next step I'm absolutely dreading and anticipating!! Harharhar...just mixed feelings...gotta get my resume touched up, send out, go for interview...*sigh* so lazy leh...oh well! Gotta try to look forward to getting up super early in the morning, having only one stipulated hour of lunch, watching my back so I don't get stabbed and all the rest of the unpleasantries associated with working life. But I'm still so happy!!! Shall take a break before I work and I just KNOW God has an exciting plan for me!!! So I'm excited 'coz I know God is excited for me as well!!! Life is exciting!!! Harharhar...the optimist in me at work again...alright!!! Gotta go play my mindless games!!! Wanted to go swim, but it has to rain!!! Sun for the last 4 days while I was studying and when I'm free? IT RAINS!!! Aargh......but life is great!!! My God is great!!!

rachel

Just another chapter

Yoz..! how everybody? should be finishing exams soon right? :D haha... jia you orh! looking forward to see the full cell turning up for fellowship. (maybe we can group up and play cluedo again! hehee..:p )

Haiz.. Anyone there good at music theory? I'm kind of stuck at harmony and chords progression(fundamentals only and i'm confused).. feel abit alien doing that topic, worse of all almost the entire grade 6 and above are all about it. -_-!! can't see the logic of it, make abit no sense to a non-keyboard player. :p but then again, if i ever managed to master this area, hahaa, maybe i can go rearrange music and maybe play it in church. :D abit far-fetched but then who knows... ;)

Oh Lord, please either explain your wonders of music making personally to me OR drop me a good teacher to teach me all over again OR make my existing teacher teach in my "frequency" of understanding.

Have an adventurous weekend and see you guys real soon!

Wow...great blog..

Hi hi...teresa here..long time no see..well get to know this blog from rachel liu and aggie..hmmm..very nice blog. i think this blog is to spread the word of GOD rite, long time never go to church, but never fail to read my bible at home..even school..!! really hope that can go to church but my mum still quite object to it...but i will never give up..i will contiune to pray to GOD..to know let HIM know how much i desire to go to church...hahas..so how everything in church? Guys & Gals...how have you all been...well now studying in ITE clementi..office skill..then recently just join in the councillor board..very busy..but really enjoy the time spent in school...thnking of going into business information technology next years after my office skill course..so working very hard now to acheive my target...quite tough as i am not really that kind that study very hard..but now really doing my best..hope that i will not failed for this month test...ok..got to stop here..hope that you all are doing fine..no matter in work or school...JIA YOU(U-u)...


Remeber that GOD is always with US
He guide us through our life

Direction and Purposes -Part2

Here comes part 2 of my story.

soon after my secondary school, I began to join many other bands to see and to learn more playing skills from other
clarinettists. The largest number of bands i guest-played at one time was about 4 bands. 6 days of practices each week (now cannot liao, getting old... not enough energy for 4 bands... hehehee...)

Anyway, i was walking towards the MRT station one day (for practice of cause) and a question popped into my head, "If you can afford to have 4 bands at the same time, what about playing for God?" So i decided to ask the music ministry if they have any vacancy for a clarinettist. Of course, they are willing to have any musicians to wants to play for God. So thats how i first came into the music ministry.

But things aren't doing well at all, i can't play without scores, and when finally there's scores, i got 'drown' by the electrical guitars and drums. Microphone were of no use at all. Discouraged, i just left things the way it was (till now, i only played once on stage). Quite a few song-leaders ask me to join as a vocalist but i rejected immediately. My immediate response was, "I can't sing, I'll go off-pitch." (I don't see singing as my talent)

Some months later, My uncle passed away, when people started to give testimonies on how persistence he was on learning to serve God and not giving up, i wept. Then i reflect on the times i rejected offers simply because on the reason of not able to do it well, God begin to shown me this particular verse. "The Lord said to him, 'Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him
deaf or mute? Who gives his sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the Lord?' Exodus 4:11" My heart grieves because i tried to serve God with what i think its my best and not what God can make the best out of me.

From this lesson, i've learn that not knowing how, is not an excuse for not doing it. Don't limit God from doing greater things through us, things that we have never done before. My uncle wasn't born from a hokkien family, its cantonese that he is being brought up from, but this doesn't stop him from learning hokkien to preach to others. Let us not limit what God can do through us.

Reflection
Are you facing any similar situations? Areas that you think its too hard to complete? Are you going to take up this challenge
if called?

"No temptation has seized you except what is common to Man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it" 1 Corinthians 10:13

they're my encouragementSSS :]

HEYHO~!!
i find this blog is like an online dailybread to me!
all these posts really touched my heart, remindin me every now and then everything about God.
couz hui ping's post are really encouragin..
really useful to me..
or rather, everybody's posts are terribly GREAT!!
it's good that we're usin this way to encourage each other when there're times it's hard to talk about things.
=] GOOD JOB, PEEPS OF KOINONIA!
i really want to thank God for everybody who put in effort for this!
and i pray that da dae when da wong bruddas are comin to join us would come faster!
then we'll have more peeps in our cell..
pray for mavis too :] that she'll have nothing on tues and join us!
AMEN!

@udrey

wat's happenin?

harlow peeps~!!
heheheh...
this is my second ENGLISH post..
how's everybody so far? :]
have ya guys eaten? heh heh..
drink lotsa water!
cos the weather is sooooooooo hot nowadays..

i'd say so becoz i did an english one for my CHINESE blog. everybody must have a CHINESE blog erh! heheh.

hmmm, skool's been OK so far. SO FAR. but i'm really struggling with a one metre stack of work i have to do almost everydae. maybe if i really manage my time well, i'd be able to pull through. but it's kinda hard at da beginnin since it's slackin time everydae in MI for da 1st 3 months. i slack so much i think i gain a few KGS. argh. i don't want to be like that, not completing certain work and then feelin guilty and stupid for doin so. i wanna be hardworking! wahahaha..

for my CCA, i wanna join EVERYTHING! cos everything seems fun. but after a great long time to thinking, i narrowed them down to swimming OR drama and photographic society. i spent a great long time askin my friends and everyone i know for opinions. it’s like such a great deal to me erh! hahahha. hmmm, so my conclusion is: i take up swimming in JC, then if i’m in uni, i can take up photography at least. it sounded logical to me. so yea, i joined swimming!! YEA! i was so happie. WAS. but after a week, da bad news came that swimming HAD TO close down. there’re only 6 keen members. so it’s impossible to continue da swimming club as besides trainin, we organize events like water carnival or some sort, big scale events that definitely require MORE THAN six peeps.

so yea, i’m very very sad. mournin already. hahahha. it’s closure for me! wahhhaa. but i trusted God, i told Him to take control and plan wat’s best for me. hmmm, sometimes my mama wants to go swimming and i’d go with her. heheheh, one of my younger loh cousin j would ask me occasionally whether i wanna go swimming and we could go together. but so far nothing happened. cos of my schedule!!

hmm, so i’m takin photography. next tues is da start of da trainin, and i’m kinda excited. i wonder if we had to pay. i’ve been askin my parents for $$$ to buy lotsa things erh! oh yea! IJ’s uniform is out!! hheehehe. it’s NICE! wahhahaha. da PE uniform just came out. it’s blue and looks like a jersey.

innova [in=new, nova=star]
todae, 29th april is our first cross country [CC]. my house, aquilas, blue house, was da forth in overall. my house in SESS is also a blue one. and it’s been last for da 4 years i’m there. argh.

aniwae, i ran like mad. i never liked runnin. but i guess CC really changed my impression a lil. i came in first for my class. hehehe, for my class only. but i ran 3.2 KILOMETRES in less than 27 mins erh! THANK GOD! i’m proud of myself. wahahaha.

and i guess it sort of motivated me to get to work and stop slackin! hmmm, i guess so.

aniwae, this is written [da first few parts] a few daes ago and [da last parts] yesterdae. heeeeeeeeeee

how’s everybody erh? =D

God bless!

@udrey