Women Of Destiny

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*wink wink*

Luv Cynthia

Who is KINDER BUENO???

Poor Bren Bren!!!! Hey dun be frustrated!!! Cynthia to the rescue!!!! the mystery commentor is non other than -> -> -> My cute cute boyfren!
Kinder bueno because he buys them occasionally from 7-11 for you (if you didn't run off too early) Rough paper because Jo needs them for exams & he always, somehow, managed find a stack for her :)

now really. who's the chap with all the funny names? it's always nice to have a visitor, but it'll be even nicer to know his/her name.

we've been talking a lot of love lately. not cynthia's sudden outburts of 'let's talk about boys!' (an unfortunate accident on my part) but true love, the type where you excercise when someone wrecks your most beloved mp3 or something. it's pretty tough to truly love someone i realise.

i for one thing, won't turn my other cheek to someone when they slap me. a classic example is when i tried to reconcile with an old classmate of mine. we shall call this person D. it started rather awkward for D happens to be a rather formal person in cyber chatting and got worse when D hit a raw nerve when a sensitive issue was raised somewhere in the coversation.

D was right of course, but i still got annoyed the way the way the issue was brought up. suddenly i wasn't too keen on reconcilation any more. for us, when sparks start to fly we start to fly away from the situation. but to truly love would be to embrace each others' mistakes and comprimise frequently. well, if jesus can love us, we have to excercise the same type of love too right? this is going to be hard, but apparently i'm going to try to talk to D again. i've been trying to connect with those i usually ignore, and i don't get very positive results. it's really important to treasure the friendship when it's still good man. spread the love!

in honour of our mystery commentor,
'pancake'

i know i'm mad to post two things in one day. but i receieved funny inspiration from cynthia and Ee jay (woah).

funny things to do(by my whole family)

1.talk while grinning all the way in a restaurant. especially to the waitresses. whoever opens their mouth first is the LOSER.

2.read out the descriptions of the menu while ordering. eg."hi can i have your muddy mud pie: ice cream packed with biscuit punch with delicious hot fudge enveloping it that will whet my appetite?"

3.go to an exotic restaurant and order the dishes with the hardest names. "can i have ajshkitedlooo?"

4.greet them with unusual enthusiasm and hesitate. eg." HELLO! can i have uh, uh, uh.....(let 5 minutes pass)"

5.book a hotel room with a huge bed. share all your jokes, laugh until you roll off the bed and go back up again. repeat till your tummy feels really painful (my mom)

6. question your parents on their love life. this turned out to be really entertaining for my family!

7.go into a lift with someone. hold the door open for a really long time before closing it. when it closes, turn to an empty space and ask"why albert, how rude. why keep us waiting?" (not original)

8. teach your dad new words. like when you say something rocks, it doesn't contain actual stones. emo is an emu, and an oxymoron is not used for scolding people like the word 'moron' (all of the above are my dad's resposnses to the following lingo lessons)

9.bring a camera along for camwhoring especially when your mom put on makeup. my mom purposely did so on our last family dinner. she went to the extent of doing an ah lian smile for us all.

10.share your ambitions. eg. my hilarious childhood friend kenneth. "my dream was to be a security guard. then i wanted to be a dishwasher." from that evolved my sister's dream to be a photocopier.

11.(special) imitate the jonas' brothers' songs. they are SO FUN to do. britney spears is good too, or even jay chou. my dad's favourite is jay chou, but my sister and i take jb, britney and miley cyrus plus other funny dudes anytime. who knew singing out of tune could be so fun.

all of the above was actually demonstrated by my family. try at your own risk, but it proves to be especially exhilrating when you're all on high.

haha.
brenda

(Picture taken with permission from historymaker. Check out his fabulous blog at www.historymaker20736.blogspot.com)

Caller : Hello, can I speak to Annie Wan (anyone)?
Operator : Yes, you can speak to me.

Hiiii all,
I went back to church yesterday, although I didn't see you guys (: I went for 1st service, and saw Cynthia. Just decided to drop a note.
Lately, this past year and last year was a turbulent one. I had no problem with 'friends' transition in Secondary school, which I am very thankful for. But I struggled a lot with my studies, and still do up to now. (so lousyyyyy)
I received stress and pressure from my family to do well, from my older sister telling me how everything was so easy, and that if I didn't do well it would just show that I was really stupid, to my parents reprimands when I scored B's. Sometimes although all they say is that they want my best, "best" is a tall order. I'M A VERY LAZY PERSON, AND I DO NOT LIKE TO STUDY AND NEITHER DO I HAVE A FLAIR FOR IT. I struggled with my studies last year.
In addition to that, towards the third quarter of the year, Ps Khong had approached my father and asked him to take on a second portfolio- to be the Operations Manager of Gateway Enterprises.
Actually, this wouldn't have affected our life at all, as no pay rise no yada yada shit whatever, but it consumed all of my father's time, and that left no time for family. He would hold a 9 to 5 job on weekdays, and be in church over the weekend. Naturally, I struggled with this too. My father who had always been available for me to talk through problems with was no longer there, he was always out or too busy to even sit down for a chat with me. When my grades were dropping, and without anyone to talk to, everything just kept going downhill. (Jack and Jill went up the hill blahblah)
I don't know how to bring across the ending without sounding bitter or cynical, but it's weird, maybe? Beginning of this year was rough. Horrible results, yet again. (When will the plague of bad results leave me?! It started in P5, wahlaooo.) In short, everything changed.
Up till now, everything's still changing. I'll post the ending when it's confirmed ;)
Bear with me, I have my reasons for not going to church or cell or whatever.

Love you guys!

Hello EVERYBODY!!
it's me again.. this is going to be a weekly affair..
cyn here it is. :)it is on the same day. i m supposed to be studying for history and chinese exam tomorrow but NVM..
if i fail my history exam.. cyn ur fault!!! HAHA. jkjk.

ANYWAY. today sermon was by PS MELVYN MAK.
it was titled THE CHARACTER OF THE KINGDOM-LIVING THE PRIVILEGED LIFE.
the 2 points were KNOW YOUR POSITION-The way God sees You
KNOW YOUR PURPOSE-The Work that God Sends us to Do
APPLICATIONS
Bren Bren- Will invite 1 friend and bring her/him to church
Mi- Join choir for 1st week *& maybe after.... haha(added by jo n me)
Jan- Have more confidence when going for CCA
Abi- Do QT everyday although very busy
El- Have more confidence in herself, talk to deputy head prefect
Jo- Have more confidence in herself when teaching her friends stuff.
Bel- Invite and bring 1 friend to church

again. hope no objections to nicknames. real names not released due to private n confidential reasons. if anything wrong with names, sms me. i'll change it. or u can change it urself.

HI DEBBIE!! haha. she say she'll come see.. she came this week by the way.. haha.
STUDY HARD EVERYBODY.. last lap... think of it.. 1 week more to freedom. (sorry jo)
ALL THE BEST!!

bel

Actually i hesistated when cynthia asked me to blog about this. Mainly, because i really dont want to sound like i'm boasting or what. Because really, I dont have the authority to press either of you girls to come to church or cell.. What i want to say is this, God did not let me "lost out". Ha ha.

So, ok, i think i did kind of well for Prelims this time. BUT, i strongly believe the credit belongs to HIM, God.

Why? I dont think i prepared well this time, thinking that since i've studied so much for mid year, i still sort of retained majority of the things that i should know, complacent you may say, but i thought i was just trying to justify my own laziness. And i didnt practice much, in fact the night before my Chemistry paper 3, i did last minute studying, trying to cramp the whole of 25 chapters of Chemistry into my head. I only managed to catch 3 hours of sleep that night. Needless to say, i was horrified at how tired i was the next morning, even when the paper was in front of me, the only thing i desired was to close my eyes and sleep. Of course, i couldnt focus and think quickly. That paper ended in...a disaster, i felt. I expected to at least score a 32/80 for this paper.

Ok, so that was a warning from me: Rest well before your Exams.

Physics was horrible too, almost couldnt finish paper 2. =(

Next, i was also sharing with my Christian friend in school that i'm still attending cell and church. The conversation continued with him telling me how i should really stop going and study because God and my leader will understand and prelims are really important especially in the event when something happened and our prelims results are to be used instead of the actual A's blah blah. And, you know, by the end of it, i was thinking, YEA, he is right... And i proceeded to send Cynthia a message telling her to excuse me for cell. She replied by saying the usual of how God will never shortchange me an what will He withhold from us and all that.

And again, i was thinking, YEA, she is right... because, when i think of my previous Exams, i didnt perform too badly either, Common Test, Mid year (On both ocassions, i did well too. See? A dim person will never do well but It's all 'cause of Him!) So okay, i managed to attend all this faithfully, though i do get worried that i cant finish on time. Of course, i do have a bit of disagreement with my parents as they wanted me to stay at home to mug. But since, they are not very firm on that, i get my way la..

And so, now i've gotten back the majority of my papers. I must say, i'm really surprised. Totally out of my expectation, i think it was quite well done. (If you want to know, can ask me personally). I imagined the Almighty to be the one marking my papers, frowning at my careless mistakes and yet giving me good results.. (i know that was kind of childish..)

So, the moral of my entry is : TRUST HIM!
Even in the midst of exams and work, do attend church and cell faithfully, i believe God will still bless us. I know its hard to do, it takes time too, especially when you guys have so many of this extra curriculum activities and you really need those weekends to revise, why not let God bless you by first giving him that time of yours to him??

Come on la, i've come a long way too. When i always skipped church last time to study, Cynthia NEVER fails to ring me up, always trying to grill this into me: He will never shortchange us. Now, i hardly dared to say anything to you girls when you were absence just to study, 'cause like what i said, i dont have the authority or right to.

Ok, that's it.


(I never meant for this post to be long...sorry)


By Anonymous.

Hello everyone!

HAPPY CHILDRENS DAY!!!

HAPPY HARI RAYA PUASA too!! haha.

Anyway. this weeks' sermon was titled Being Bold For God's Kingdom-Living in A Love Driven Community.
It is 3rd part of the new series.
There were only 2 points this week.
#1 Love your neighbour
#2 Live in Communtiy
Though there were only 2 points, it still spoke to us and probably got thru to us.

This weeks Applications are:*
CK- SMS her friend who she has not been talking to
Bren Bren- Help her parents more
Jol- Be nicer to her sister
Mi- help her Brother with his work
Chlo- Show more love to her mom, don't ask her to pick her up from school
ZM- Respond to her mum's nags
Bel- Don't be rude to her Grandmother
Jo- Teach her brother his homework
*names have not been revealed due to private and confidential reasons. If you are not happy with your nickname, look for me by all means. It will be changed. Hope no offence will be taken by u all.

haha. thats all. DREALY is in Japan.. eating eating n eating. haha. I'm supposed to be studying.. but i'm supposed to post this as well. so here it is. I'm wearing my yali shirt now. haha.

EVERYONE! STUDY HARD!! ALL THE BEST!! just think of it. exams r ending soon. Hope thru this period u all will still carry out ur applications. dun be stressed!! if do badly, work harder. 失败是成功之母! haha seldom see me use chinese. hope its correct. :)

bel

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