Living out Faith

About a month ago, little Baba and I headed back to Spore to surprise mum for her birthday. We had an extremely long weekend. It was really hard to pull off a stunt like this. I speak to mum almost every day and it's hard to pretend that we're not heading home. Anyway, we pulled it off and mum was majorly excited and beyond happy! Anyway, I digress as usual. This is post not about mum's birthday but to a certain extend, it's kinda related. So after surprising mum, I drove Jacqui's car with Jacqui at the back with little Baba to my mother in law's place for little Baba to hang out with her. While in the car, Jacqui and I were just chatting and talking nonsense as usual and Jacqui turned to little Baba and asked, 'So Didi, do you want to be a economist when you grow up?' And I said, 'No, he's going to a missionary doctor going to Africa!' And what happened next kinda changed some things. Jacqui kinda exclaimed something like, 'Do you know...

I know over the years, I've blogged quite a bit about friends. And once again, the topic of friends came to mind recently. And I've been thinking about it and realized that God really has blessed me with friends when my extended family is not around and even with my extended family around, God still blessed with with wonderful friends. On 28th of September, little Baba and I flew back to Singapore for a long weekend. It was a surprise for my mum for her birthday too. Well, actually Mum and Dad's birthdays, their birthdays are just a few days apart. Mum was beyond shocked and of course she was superbly happy! Anyway, fast forward, a night before we left Singapore, we had dinner with a couple of our friends. We had dinner with Stanley and Dorcas, who are Baba's godparents (Eve is also Baba's godma), Adrian and Cindy and Mum and Joanne. And the kids, Victoria, Joanne and Baba. While having dinner, it hit me, the guys that were at dinner, I've known them for mor...

Yes, the blog is still kinda alive....Been caught up with life and well, been busy too. Been at the new school for about a month and love it so far. Learning lots from the kids and there are days that I walk away feeling a little sad knowing that some of the kids do not have much but most of the time, I walk away from work feeling glad that I've made the right decision. I've been thinking about the haves and the have nots. As a child, I've never really been part of the haves but over the years, the family got into the middle of the haves. But we're still not really the haves. I wouldn't say that we're the haves now but rather we're in the category that we can be the haves if we want and be happy as the have nots. It wouldn't kill me that I can't have the designer bag that I like or the nice watch. My basic needs are met and I'm happy. But as I work with some of the have nots, it pains me at times. Some of the kids that I work with live in sub...