Living out Faith

Had an absolutely fabulous, wonderful, great, superb and everything nice weekend in Spore. Attended Sharon's wedding. She's a great friend. She was probably my best friend while I was working in Woodlands Primary School. Sharon, I have to say, is the opposite of me. She's calm, collected, patient, cool headed, everything that's opposite of me. When I used to work with her, she calms me down and reminds me to reflect before shooting off my mouth. She was almost my rock that pulls me back to earth! When I left Woodlands, she was the person that I missed most. When Sharon met Kenneth, I was overjoyed. I was so glad that Kenneth met someone that just as nice as her. Seriously, Sharon has no mean bone in her, don't think she'll even kill an ant! That's why, she's the opposite of me. When Sharon broke the news to me that she was getting married. I was beyond being elated! To me, come snow, hail, typhoon, cyclone or whatever, I'll make sure that I'll be...

The wonderful thing about being in HK is meeting friends from different cultures. Last night I had Thanksgiving dinner with Kim and David. It was my second Thanksgiving dinner. Had one with the Carlsons last year. Thanksgiving is a wonderful time to remind myself to be thankful for the bountiful blessings that God has showered upon me. I admit that I get caught up with my life and I forget to thank God for heaps that He has provided for me. Yesterday was pretty apt as I met Michelle Pang online. I've known for a long time, almost forever. But we somewhat lost touch as we got older but at Stan's wedding, we reconnected. We started chatting and it was very encouraging to know that we're not alone in life's journey. Michelle, will pray for you and thanks for your wonderful encouragement too. Today is also our wedding anniversary. It's our 5th! Ya! Thank God that we survived this far. God has been great and good to us. Everyday, I'm thankful that I married my best f...

There's no one at work this morning except for me and another teacher. The teachers went out for a professional development class and since it's conducted in Chinese, I get to sit at my desk and blog. Not really, I've got stuff to do but I'm just procrastinating away. Anyway, I started listening to the sound track of My Best Friend's Wedding which is actually one of my favorite CDs. Then it hit me, next Sat, another of my best friend is getting married! Sharon, I love Sharon, probably one of the sweetest person on earth. Okay, people must be thinking, gee, how many best friends do you have? Let me count, I've got Babe, Eve, Lina, Stanley and Sharon. I know, best friend is meant to be one but I guess my ultimate best friend is Babe and then the rest of my best friends will follow. When I look at myself, I count myself fortunate that I've got quite a number of best friends. But at the same time, it can be hard not being near my best friends. I'm glad I ma...

Letting go has never been a forte of mine. I actually suck at letting go. I hate letting go of my clothes, bags, shoes and my material stuff. I've got loads of things at home. I hate letting go of my material stuff and it's even harder to let go of emotions. Recently, I've been pondering over a number of things. Friendships is one of them. Over the years, I've accumulated friends. I've been thinking maybe it is time to declutter my friendship wardrobe. If there's such a thing. Friendship wardrobe is like a clothes wardrobe. There's always a comfort piece of clothing that is always there for me and is my comfort when I feel fat and the moment I put on that piece of clothing, I feel great instantly. So that's liken to my comfort and favourite friend. That's probably Babe or Eve. Whenever I feel shit, they are there for me. And then there is the pretty elegant dress that I wear once in a while. When I'm fat, it points out my flaws and not accept it,...

So yesterday on CNA, Sandra Yeow and Kevin Lee won the Subaru Challenge and good for them that each gets a car. And each of them spent more than 70 hours with a hand stuck on the car. Well, good for them! Walking to work and today, something gnawed at the back of my head. So much time wasted just for a car. This was also Sandra Yeow's third attempt. I wonder if all the time is worth it. Maybe for the winner, it was worth the time. But what about the losers? Sorry, no pun intended. Would these same people who placed their hands on the cars, place hands on packets of rice or whatever to raise money for charity? Have people, including me, turn into people chasing after material stuff without looking inside? I know, I sound like a hypocrite now. Yes, I know. Sure, I'm one of these people chasing after frivolous crap in my life. I love designer bags, shoes, watches, clothes and loads more. When I moved to HK and cleared my flat, I realised how much stuff I accumulated and some of th...

Life is a transient life can be full of ups and downs or exciting if you look at it from another point of view. Everyday brings a new experience and everyday is a new day from yesterday. Gee...that sounds so cliche. Let's talk about friendships. Friendships in a transient life is very random. One can never ever know if over dinner, lunch or coffee, that friendship can be cemented and it can last. I met Eve at uni. I would probably say that it was very random that we met. So random that I don't really know how we met and the friendship cemented over lots of dinners, lunches and coffees in uni. We used to walk out of lectures when it gotten so boring. But over time, the friendship lasted and hopefully, I'll never lose her a friend. And there's Susan, that I met at grad school, didn't think that the friendship will last but it did. In Hong Kong, it's the same. But like what Marina says, sometimes we spent time getting to know the wrong people and then we realise th...