Just reached uni one hour ago and i received a voucher to get a free regular drink from the bean bar that has just opened today!

Obviously, me being the typical kia shu singaporean will definitely rush off to claim the free drink.. hmm.. when i reached there it was quite crowded but not as bad as i had expected. In my mind , i was imagining a picture of how there would be a very long queue and maybe there might be some unpleasant people. A scene which is quite common in singapore especially when there are free stuff! heh.. Well, turn out that the people who were at the bean bar were very pleasant as we waited patiently for our drinks. The service was fast and in less than 5 mins i got my hazalnut chai tea! It was kinda sweet but i still like it. Ep dearest hated the smell of the chai tea when i ordered it at gloria jeans a few weeks back. He made a comment saying that the chai smells like his granny's room due to the herbal scent. After that i simply refused to drink chai as i didn't want to be associated with "old". haha..

COme to think of it, I shall just age gracefully!! 21 sounds young.. hopefully i look like my age now.. People always thought i am in my early 20s when in fact at that time i was only in my teens.. heh..what to do! ?!   Too mature looking...

Today is kinda cold compared to teh last few days.. i like weekends.. although i may be like a normad carrying a heavy bag and sleeping over at friends' place but i simply enjoy their companyand hospitality! (Hope they don't find me a pest) haha.. Thanks to Yoshi dearie who has kindly allow me to sleep over almost every friday for the past few months and our "sherperd - joanne" will come and feed us with God's word on sat morning. Then on saturday i would bunk at dear Elaine's room in a hostel whenever i have to worship lead in church on sundays. All the gals' talk i always enjoy when i sleep over and catch up with them.

This semester, i have found 2 other sweeties who kindly allow me to stay over on friday and sat..
They are joannies (my funky disciple aka coursemate) and siew wai( the upcoming ocf president) . Well, i will rotate every week so that i won't bother them too frequently and i can catch up with them once in a while. Staying too far away and having not so frequent public transport could be troublesome and unsafe especially at night but GOd has turned all these to something beautiful! Thank YOu Father in heaven..

 First week of uni is really slack.. kinda like it though.. heh 
 
Just read tab's, Jia's and Bet's blogs.. Interesting to keep myself updated with their lives.. Miss you lots hq dearie!!! Know what.. i dreamt of you all last night but i can't remember what the dream was about..  Miss you gals back home.

Spring is coming.. can't wait to see all the beautiful flowers blooming again! Adelaide is a nice place even though it's abit slow moving but i think the uni life here suits me as there is time to "smell the roses." 

Maybe it's just me.. how i used to be so unhappy, worried and stressed all the time as i didn't see the beauty of life but just exams and all the past hurts that i kept in my heart since childhood. A change of environment does help and the fact that God has always been leading and guiding me to change me to who i am now. I don't think i am the best person in this world but i can safely say i am more joyful, confident and learining how to enjoy life as i see the purpose of life.

Thank God for my family, friends especially hq dearest, doc sau, ben, ep dearie... not to mention all the rest whom i know and had spend ups and downs with.. The list will be too long if i mention everyone but i do keep all of you in prayer. I believe GOd brought all of you into my life for a reason.
There will be a day when i can see the full picture that God has already painted.

 As for now,I like to keep myself occupied. Studying, serving in ocf and church. Spending time with ep and calling home once awhile to my family. Emailing / Smsing/ reading the blogs of my dear friends back home. I just realised how i love to be in contact with people and being able to be there for them if they need help or a listening ear. However, i still need to learn how to love people closest to me and not take them for granted. For now, i think darling ep is the one getting all my nonsense.. haha.. Thank You for being patient with my moodiness and coldness at times. Hope that we can support and help each other grow in the years to come!  It's a fact that as we grow older we are moulded to have our own identities. We know what we want in life and what is it that can make us happy. AS we grow older we might become less idealistic as nothing is so perfect in people and in life. I sound so old.... arghhhh... haha
 

 My last day of holidays..

Let me recall what i have done so far ever since i last updated my blog.
 
14th  july- prepared discipleship material for joannies and slacked around at home. Think I watched a dvd movie named " crazy beautiful" . It's a love story on how love can do wonders. Happy ending! i like films with hapy ending! heh..

15th jluy- Met joannies for discipleship then went for dinner with yoshi and her friend. Met Ep and the others before heading to a combine meet between the 3 ocf centres at a uni Sa campus in magil

16th july- Had the 2nd comm meeting with our advisor aunty merilyn. She gave us a sermon on humility and how to serve as leaders. Richard applied what he learnt by washing all our feets as written in the bible where jesus did the same to his disciplers.

17th july- church and time with ep

Thinking of cancelling my blog.. coz i seldom update it and it's not very attractive considering the fact that i only talk about my daily life and if you all still dunno, my life is quite routine especially when i don't know how to write as well as my friends plus i can't describe well.. hmm

I  came back from melbourne .. by the way.. ep and i wanted to share share and buy a digital camera before the trip so that we can post photos online.. BUT his parents say it's cheaper to buy from malaysia so  we din get it and we had to use the camera with film.. hmm..

Anyway, will give a more detailed account on my melbourne trip soon.. I have some pix that jacinth took using her camera when we were in melbourne.. heh.. how to post pix on my blog??? will ask ep..

Waiting for ep now.. his birthday today and i made a card and baked a cake.. hope he will be surprise!
Thank GOd for my aunt who helped me with the baking! She is such a sweet lady.. so loving and considerate.. if not for her i won't be settling down so quickly in adelaide. 

For those who don't know, ep and i are both july babies.. 2 cancer(ers).. haha.. aiyah.. he came from behind... i din managed to hide the cake.. chey!!!!





 

Just read hq's , tab's and jia's blogs...

 Seems like you gals just had a gal's outing recently. How i wish i can meet up with you all. Have not even seen joe and kenneth in person but i had a glanced at the photos from friendster.

  Study Life is all about assignmets and study.Sian! So much to do! Don't know why i have the habit to nap for awhile nowadays. It's actually quite good as i can absorb more of what i am studying.

  Waiting to go for lecture now..   

Back to uni on tueday..

 Had been emotionally down for the last 2 days. Felt stress ever since uni started. I want to do well and get good grades. My grades last year was average. Then i got called up last friday by a department head saying that my assignment is " plagarised" so I need to attend a course where they will teach us how to write an original essay. In addition, i will only get 50% of the grade. Hmm.. a huge blow for me .. my pride i guess and also disapppointing on the fact that i did make alot of effort to complete that assignment.

 Well, i have come to a conclusion that i will do my best and leave the rest to God. Can't help it if i have only limited capability especially in getting extraordinary fantastic results.

 Anyway, i kinda got abit upset with eng poh cause he thought it was him who made me emotionally stress and he was adding on abit to the stress when i have to reassure him that it wasn't him. Well, we are all good and happy again!

 We are planning to go ski in melbourne during our july holidays!!!!!!! Can't wait.... keke

Came back from easter camp on monday. It was really good! i was one of the bible study group leader, kitchen helper and the worship leader for the last worship in the camp. It's inspiring how God works. One of my aussie friend micheal accepted Christ. Another micheal who belongs to my bs group in ocf and easter camp came to accpet God as his Lord and Saviour too! yay.. I learnt alot through serving. Hope to learn adn grow more in the days to come. Now is 2 weeks break for me. But it has been eventful for me since camp ended. Had no time to really slack yet. WEll, it's alright coz i think i will get bored if i slack too much and has got nothing to do. Watched hitch with eng poh dear yesterday. Quite a good movie. heh.. i know it's abit slow to watch it now.. the show has been on for quite some time. WEll well... I am going to camp out today and tml night too! Gal's movie night at tomoko's place! yippy... that means no sleep .. hmm.. my eye bags are getting bigger.. argh... Anyway, sleep too much also quite sian. Like abit waste of time.. hmm.. Time for gym..... tata

Last saturday was eventful.. The trip to port adelaide was a success! About 22 people came along. Quite remarkable considering that there was no dolphin cruise and the fishermen's wharf only operates on sunday. Well, my alternating plan that sat was actually asking my friend to teach them how to play aussie footy ( football played in the australian way) then lunch was pancake at the harbour  followed by a visit to the railyway museum. Sorry that i don't have any phtos to show!  Was too busy organising everything and forgot about the camera. Then a few of us went off earlier to attend a leadership training for bible study leaders. I t ended quite late but dinner was good! Homecook curry and ba kut teh.

 Sunday we had a bbq right after church service. Games were fun and we had a great time. Then straight after that we went off to attend a birthday party of 2 ocfers. By then eng poh adn i were so tired and full so we didn't eat much and went off early.

 Heh.. Good friday coming! The weekend will be filled with church activities. Need to catch up on my work too..


 

I"ve stopped work since monday! Got my penang tix ready..Leaving on the 14th feb.  Will be there for a week. Then i have 1 day in spore till i fly back to adelaide.