Kathy! This is for you!

My fellow April babe. Next year April, I'll be celebrating my birthday without you already...

Retreat -> 休息是走更长远的路。。。

Back Dated Thanksgiving...

Got my common test papers back like one month ago, did better than I had expected.

Marketing: 42.5/50
Human Resource Management:47/50
Financial Market and Services: 47/50

Never do so well in my tests before, was shocked and happy at the same time.

Been busy for the last one month, meeting deadlines for project. Projects will take up 20% of my course work yet I had to work like crazy for it. It does not commensurate the efforts put in. But well, thats how the world work.

Exams is approaching.. Schedule as follow..
16th Aug: Marketing
18th Aug: Human Resources Management
20th Aug: Financial Market & Services

Need to start revision soon... Pray that I will do well.
Looking for temp job starting 1st Sept 2008, anyone got lobang please let me know.. =)

That's all for now.

-Serene-

As some of you may know, Jocelyn wasn't in a very good state last Friday. Was actually down the whole of last week...work didn't seem to be as smooth sailing as I naively thought. Made a lot of mistakes and blunders due to my carelessness and lack of spirit of excellence. I was more disappointed in myself than being affected when my colleague ticked me off. I wonder, what happened? Why had I become so incapable? People thought I can do it...I thought I can do it...in the end, it was all in thoughts only... My confidence and ego were hit. Not only did my colleagues lose trust in me, I lost trust in myself, thinking whether I can really "do it", whether I can excel in my "career", if there was a career to talk about in the first place. Since then, I went to work heavy-hearted, head down, praying each day that there would be no mistakes made. Work kind of took on a whole new meaning for me.

But God did encourage me, told me off gently actually. That I should bring Him more often to my work place, spend more time with Him and walk closer with Him, "...seeking first the kingdom of God and then all other things will fall into place..."

I've to work doubly hard now, not only to perform my tasks excellently, but also to earn back my trust, to win my colleagues and boss over again. But this time, I hope to do it with God. Pray for me, won't you?


-Jocelyn-

ooh wait i forgot to give thanks for something on friday too :)

thank God i got tuition now. yea dont shoot me im happy to have tuition heh heh. my gp needs saving, and i dont blame my teacher now cos my class really is big... And the good thing abt my tuition teacher is that he was once a relief teacher for my class. He comes to potong pasir to teach us, and doesnt charge so ex, esp when im paying by myself( yay :) )... 1-1 at $150 for minimum 1.5 hours a month haha... can extend de :)

and the cool thing is, he's christian too! and he was asking me to go the conference at SAC on friday. He's into theological studies. Can learn abit from him. He's doing it for his last year for philosophy i think... He shared one thing:

God is well known by us all to be "love". However, for love to exist, a subject must be present, like someone to love. So since God is only 1(before man was created), how can God be love... Then we rmb that God is 3-in-1, so love can exist in God, so God is love!

(i dont know if i put it in proper words, but the idea is there right? haha)

He said something about Man, but i cant rmb... Cool teacher :)

and thank God for friends too~~~ : )

Give thanks!!

Just want to thank God that He sustained my dad back to work. Yesterday, the doc said that he has fully recovered. Yeah! Thank God for that and he is able to bend his left knee at least at right angle. think he won't be able to squat or to kneel again. :( .. at least he is alright now. :) Not really happy with his working hours. However he finds it ok cos he says it quite light duty. Well, as long as he can cope and he enjoys it. I'm fine with it.

Thank God for my colleagues! They had a surprise cake for me. Ha.. weitan even got me out to packet lunch for them. when I got back to my company, they were all ready to sing birthday song for me. The colleague that recently resigned even came down to celebrate my birthday. thank God for friendship at the work place. Yah.. realise that i've always focused on the unhappy things that happened at work. Actually, work place can be quite fun too. It's how we choose to respond and relate to different individuals.

Had to train a new guy at work today. Thank God for for the opportunity to talk to him. Managed to find out that his friends brought him to city harvest and New creation church before... Haha.. next step... Have to find chance to tell him about God's love. Pray for me as I embarked on this new mission...to share His love.

Some upcoming events that you might be interested...
Streams of Praise is in Singapore. (Chinese Worship team from taiwan)
Go Forth (mission conference this wed to sat I think...interested parties can go for free night sessions)

Okie... that's abt all for now.

Joy. ...of the Lord is my strength. Yeah!

The musing of a recently turned 29 year old

Hello everyone who remembered my birthday. Thanks so much! At this age (wah... i sound so old) ... I value the cheng-yi more than anything. Of course presents are welcome (haha) as well as all the well wishes! I felt v loved when friends, students, colleagues and family came and celebrated my birthday with me. I ate so many cakes that I have room only for one more. I had oreo cake from s13, strawberry cake from savory fare, strawberry tall-cake from four-leaves, mango cake from s12 and hmmm... let me guess... what cake I will eat on sun? Actually it was quite funny to see so many candles on my cake.... too bad next year only got 3 big ones.

Hmmm everytime people ask me to make a wish... I'm begining to think that wishing... no use... just work hard for what you really want or you pray hard and just keep trusting God! I must live for a worthy cause and make each day count!!! With the prelims drawing near, I feel myself worrying alot about my students. Please pray for me to have wisdom to know how to help them and also to trust God's purposes for them too. We reap not where we laboured.. yup we sometimes don't see the fruit or result, but it doesn't mean that the investment is wasted :)

Cosette I agree that life is certainly more than having good grades... and having a good life... we must have God in the mainframe picture in our lives lest we live our lives in aimless pursuit of the better but miss out the best...which is to live for God's purpose in our lives. We are like jars of clay which holds out the treasure (Jesus) who can shine through gloriously even in the life of one whom society deems as a failure.

- Carol :) -

my first day at work...

thanks for all your prayer!! Today is my first day at work. I went to the Yishun Centre to observe my colleague's lessons. There's so much that I need to learn and pick up...But I must say that it is indeed quite different from classroom teaching...It is less restricted. Students are enticed to learn!!! It is a skill!! Will be quite challenging I suppose but I'm quite looking forward to meet the children. My lesson will offcially start only in 2 weeks' time. Thanks to my boss who is rather understanding. She wants me to settle in first.

Every child is so different and interesting. The teacher in Yishun has also inspired me. She encourages the children and desires that they will continue to try. Many of them are so afraid of making mistakes that they don't even dare to try. In school, sad to say that a lot of teachers don't have time for many of these students. We're so driven to complete the syllabus that we've missed them out.

Continue to pray with me (if you remember) that I too may be a teacher who sees every child through the eyes of God. God created everyone of them with a purpose in mind. May I see the purpose God has in mind for every child.

Thanks!

Cosette Song!!