Living out Faith

Babe and I flew back to Singapore last night. Saw little Jo Claire last night. Her parents came to pick us up. She's such a cute and beautiful girl. This morning we went to Karen's wedding. What a beautiful bride. After the wedding we went to Jo Claire's party. Met other babies there. Will upload photos when we get back. So glad to be home. All thanks to Jo Claire. Was a little sad to leave her. It saddens me to think that the next time I'll see her will be either in July or August. Oh well, this is all part of living overseas. I have till Tuesday night to carry her.

On my Facebook update, I wrote this, ' Faith Jasmine Sim saw the sun and the rainbow amidst the rain. And no she's not mad. She's speaking metaphorically.' I wrote on Thursday that it was one of my worse days in my life but today, the sun shone upon me and the rainbow appeared. Ummm, it's kinda raining in Hong Kong and the weather pretty much sucked today to be honest. But to me, sun was shining and the rainbow appeared. I was very much reminded of Noah. Despite the rain and the gloomy weather, I felt God's rays of love upon me and the rainbow reminded me of His promises for me. On Thursday, I had to make one of the hardest decision in my life. It was very hard. And in making that decision, I questioned the whole idea of Christianity and the existance of God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit, the Holy Trinity. As I laid in bed on Thursday in my sad and depressive state, I was about to be like Job's wife. Just deny, curse God and die. Oh not, literally, but rather l...

Today was one of the worst days in my life. It was so bad that I wished that I could just curl up in bed and stay there for the longest time. But well, a wish is not reality. Life goes on and emotions and feelings just have to take a back seat. And I've learnt at a very young age, whatever that does not break me, only makes me stronger. And that everything happens for a reason and the Almighty has a purpose for everything and He will make things right. Don't worry, won't let those assholes get me down!

Check out the beautiful pics of Jo Claire. Joanne emailed them to me yesterday. Just love technology. Jo Claire is just beautiful, cute, adorable and all the wonderful adjectives that I can use and find to describe her. In my last post, I blogged about living overseas and how sometimes I miss my family and friends. Well, today as I think of the reality of seriously heading home in about three and the half years' time, it made me sad. And I think, maybe I'm just not ready to head home after all. I seriously wonder if I do return back to Spore, what will I do? Do I return back to teach in a local school or be a stay at home mum and a driver? Seriously, what would I be returning home to? I enjoy HK and what it has to offer me. The reality is that I'll never ever have the same amount of have something remotely close to what I have now. I admit that I'm very drawn to my salary. At the same time, is it just the money? I'm not that materialistic a person. I have quality ti...

Recently, Sharon, my cousin in the States, emailed us, her cousins, a story that she wrote of our childhood. It was a memory from our carefree days when we used to play games that we would just pulled out from our imagination. We weren't rich neither were we paupers but we had cousins and when we cousins come together, creative juices followed and viola! A game starts. Screams and squeals of delight can often be heard. We used to look forward to the weekends and holidays so much so that we could hang out and play. I would seriously never trade my memories of childhood for anything. For some people, they see their cousins probably once a year but for us, we used to see our cousins all the time. Well, of course, we grew up and life gets the better of us but there's always still contact. When I'm in States, I definitely will pop by to see Sharon, Eelynn and Jolynn. Will be missing them this year, hopefully, next year, I'll be able to catch up with them. Lina is still one o...

Every day, I'm beginning to see more of God's providence, of how He makes things work together, weaving bits and pieces to make it into something perfect. Things that seem, well, why can't it work, and now, I'm seeing, yes, I now know why. This started with Easter hols. Well, I didn't make it back to Spore for Easter and was trying to figure out why. Wanted so badly to head home to spend time with family and friends. But no, went to Shanghai instead. Couldn't figure out why and why Shanghai? Why? So things are falling into place now. Kinda know why now and God has even made it better. We went to Shanghai for 5 nights, experienced Shanghai and left Shanghai understanding that it would be hard for us to live there and also going to church would be a problem. Well, a couple of days ago, a call came for Babe asking him if he was interested in relocating to Shanghai. Without asking me, guess he knew my answer, he told them no. God brought us to Shanghai, showed us Sh...

Was meaning to blog yesterday but got kinda distracted by other stuff. Well, it was Babe's birthday yesterday. Had a nice day. And yes, we went to KFC for dinner. Were too lazy to head into Central for dinner so we headed into Tsingyi which is a suburb away. And his favourite restaurant there was too crowded too and so we had KFC. We do love KFC anyway. Most of you would know that Babe and me dated for 10 years before getting married. When we got married, I was determined to make sure that this is the man that I would grow old graciously with and the man that I'll love for the rest of my lifetime. Well, not sure about the growing old graciously bit, spotted wrinkles, but after being with him for 17 years, I still get butterflies in the my tummy when I pick him up from the airport. He's still the one that when I open my eyes in the morning, I thank God for giving him to me. Sure he snores and I snore too, that can be annoying at times, but I love him all the same. It's h...

I remember last Christmas when we were in States, we bought mum a Coach bag for Christmas. It was this beautiful patchwork bag. After giving to her, I mentioned to her that Babe that it was beautiful. And Mum heard and she immediately said, 'No! You're not having it now!' No, I didn't take it back from her. I love patchwork. One of the most beautiful blankets that I had when I was a child was actually a patchwork blanket that my grandmother made. She sewed it square by square and it was a beautiful pattern. It was something that money can never buy. Even now, as I look around, I wish that I can get another patchwork blanket but it's something that I've to make or find someone that loves me enough to make one for me. I thought of patchwork because of things that has been happening now. Joanne gave birth last week and she was meant to give birth either this week or next week but she popped last week which we are all very thankful. Thankful because the swine flu or...