Today is D-5 day to the submission of my written preliminary examinations. I have been in the high-strung stressed out mode for the past 1 - 2 months. Every waking moment aside from teaching seem to be one of frantic writing in front of the laptop. The greeting statement that I get from people these days seem to be 'You look exhausted/stressed' ( Read more... )

As America celebrates it's 239th Independence day on the 4th of July, I realise that I am not so independent after all.
I dislike public holidays, eg. Christmas, because people spend time with their family and friends, but I have none here. Therefore I went to work, just like any other Saturday. Work has become my to-go source for all situations ( Read more... )

I was standing at the bus stop looking upon Northrop at 11 20 pm today waiting for the bus and tears started welling up in my eyes. The pressures of graduate school has finally got onto me and made me laugh and tear at the same time, nicely translated as 苦笑 ( Read more... )

It has been one week since Mr Lee Kwan Yew passed away and it has been an emotional, information overloaded week. I woke up this morning after his funeral and looked at the Singapore banner hanging in my room and recited the pledge out loud.The words resonating in my ears took on a new-found meaning because of LKY's passing ( Read more... )

As a Singaporean, Mr Lee was a giant in our lives ( Read more... )

  1Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; 2and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma ( Read more... )

This was what I have been feeling and actually blogged about in my other blog recently ( Read more... )

I am not the type of person who goes about writing a list of resolutions at the start of the year but this year I am going to break the tradition. These are the things God has put on my heart and I want to see them achieved at the end of the year ( Read more... )

I have witnessed my first baptism service in Maranatha yesterday when one of my friend made the decision to go for one, just before he leaves the USA for good and return to Malaysia. Because MCF is a small church, the entire event was very unlike BBTC's, this was small, intimate and powerful. The baptism service was conducted after the regular ( Read more... )

It has been 366 days since I said "I do" and what a ride it has been. I might not have the purest of reasons agreeing to go for baptism, but he has remained faithful and loving, bringing me on adventures that I have never imagined in my wildest dreams. Here I am typing this post in the mid-winter of Minnesota experiencing new things every day ( Read more... )