14th and 15th March..

these 2 days had been really exciting for me!!! on the 14th March, wenyao and his cell grp invited me along to celebrate wenyao's 22nd birthday! :) though it was a belated one, but it's alright. I was pretty nervous initially. cuz i do not know most of his cell group friends? and i'm not sure how open are they to welcoming new pple. but darling (wenyao) was really nice. he kept assuring me that the cell grp themselves are even more excited to see me! lol.. anyway, darling and i were early. so we sat down in SMU's campus to wait for the rest of them to arrive. oh! oh! cuz we're mtg at the settler's cafe @ SMU that day. anyway, when they have finally arrived, darling and i decided to make our way down to go look for them. i was a little shocked to see so many of them. BUT! i really really thank God that everyone was super friendly! i could chat with them, and click with them just like that! *happy* soon after, we were having so much fun there, taking pictures, chatting, playing games. oh! and it was a last min thing! Rose, Doreen and I decided to give darling a surprise. Rose went to get dear a cake from raffles hotel? then when she came back, i went to meet up with her and got the staff to switch off the light and brought in the cake. it's not very helpful to have such an intelligent boyfriend i must say. so, as much as i would love to go with Rose to the buy the cake, i cant. cuz if not dear will definitely ask for me and soon realised what was happening. anyway.. he kinda guessed it. so in order to make us feel good that we managed to surprise him, he decided to play along.. haizz.. nvm.. at least the getting the cake part was a huge success. haha.. thank you Rose. i decided to omit out the part whereby we were pretty unhappy that our food came late and it wasnt served hot. cuz this is supposed to be a joyous occasion? so yea. i choose to remember and to jot down the happy moments. :) i gave darling 3 surprises! first, some balloons which i got one of the really cool parents i have in class who so happened to be a balloon sculptor (and brought the balloons in for the class for term end party that day) to make a heart and a goldfish for darling. though the goldfish kinda didnt work out, cuz one of the part burst? lol.. anyway, 2nd, i bought darling kinder surprise! so he ate it, and we opened up the toy portion together to see wad's in it. haha.. quite pre-school.. but i love it! :P 3rd, i got him presents. 2 t-shirts. though i think he didnt expect any presents from me? or did he? maybe he did. given his intelligence. nvm. anyway.. so tat's for the 14th March.

15th March:

after church, dear and i made our way down to Joyce's birthday party @ her house. Joyce is actually dear's cell grp friend, Nichloas's girlfriend. she's also from Glory Pres Church, but is in a diff cell grp as dear and gang. so we were like one one the first few to reach. slowly, when the pple came, we were all sitting round the tepanyaki table. ready to cook! oh my! i was hungry! so Benita and bf, Adam, Dear, Sam and I shared a table. there was a wide spread! Beef, Chicken, Fish, Salmon (Dear and my fave!!!), Cuttlefish, noodles, etc.. and yea.. my darling can cook!!!!! He cooked Hokkien Mee!!!!! my goodness! It tastes really good! *slurp!* haha.. thou i stood far far away when he was chopping up the garlic and frying them. i hate garlic! so does he actually.. hee.. anyway, we were having so much fun, chit chatting, and cooking and eating. thereafter, we went to cut the cake, took some pictures and played Taboo! (singapore version). it was a Men Vs Women thingie. lol.. anyway, in the end, the ladies won! Hurray!!! thereafter, Dear, Christina, Benita, Michelle and myself drove over to Mich's place for more games. we had so much fun and laughter! and i even broke the record for collecting the most number of cow heads.. -_-" objective is to collect as little as possible? but u noe, me being me, muddlehead and silly me, made some wrong moves and collected 201 cow heads in total! *slaps forehead!* nvm. anyway, i bought a pack of the cards from Michelle. so yup yup. shall play it with my cell grp one of these days. oh oh! and on this coming Wed, i'll be mtg up with the girls, Sing lynn, Christina, Doreen, Rose and myself. We're gonna have a sort of like girls' cell bonding kinda thing. lol. i'm not in their cell? but that's fine. they invited me anyway. hee. oh but yesterday, i do felt quite bad for having so much fun at Mich's place till i forgot the timing. cuz i have got no work? but dear has. and he still gotta drive me home. :( sorry darling. you went home so late again yesterday. i'll promise to take note of the timing next time k? :) ok! think that's all for now. gotta let yee use the comp. and i need to get ready to go out with san. take care! God bless! :)

Busy busy year ahead..

First and foremost, in order to protect myself against any complaints or risk any chance of me getting sued by the parent whom i've wrote about in my previous entry titled "Parents' chat", i have decided to delete the entry before i get into any sort of trouble. Anyway.. as the title suggests, i'm gonna have a busy busy year ahead next year..

Earlier in the noon, after my weekly children's church ministry work in church, we (all the counsellors/Sunday school teachers as known to many) had our annual planning meeting. of which, one of the agenda that was brought up was about the new planning teams which we're gonna have next year. every year, we have had 3 planning teams -- to plan for the Sunday school's curriculum and there will be 2 coordinators to lead the team. It came as a pleasant surprise to see my name on the power point slides on one of the 2 planning team's list. It was highlighted in red and yea.. before i knew it, my children's pastor -- aunty susan, announced to the whole team that Kevin See and I will be the assistant coordinator for the 2 planning teams. I'm the asst coordinator of team A and Kevin's team B. i was like.. i cannot believe this. This is my 3rd year, coming 4th year, serving in the children's ministry, the thought of me becoming a leader in my church's ministry never once crossed my mind. i was really really happy and honoured. To be able to serve God, is already an honour. Now, to be able to lead a team of people together with the main team leader, i am even more honoured. praise the Lord!

And besides the "promotion", i am also part of 3 events' planning committee: Easter's Special, Retreat+ Teachers' day celebration and Children's day outing in my church's ministry. Also, i'll be anchoring a class of my own (in children's church) , partnering with James (a new and young counsellor who'll come on board next yr) and i'm gonna help mould and train him up to take his own class in the near future. after all these years, i have never once felt tired or think it as a chore to stay back after children's service in church till 5pm plus to plan for the various events or planning team. That's why people always say that if we find joy and passion when doing smth that we love, it will never be a chore.

Anyway, besides church's commitments, next march, i am gonna start my Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood Education. It'll be a part time course over a period of 18 months. So towards the end, if i score well, i'll be given the oppportunity to do the honours deg modules. and at the end of it, i will graduate with an honours deg. It's gonna be difficult i know, to study part time and work full time. But it's ok. cuz i definitely do not want to go through the 3 months probation period again after working for like coming 2 years in the company if i switch back to a part-timer during my course of studies, and then back to a full-timer after my degree course ended.

yup yup.. so that's so much about the updates that's happening in my life.

God is good, all the time! and all the time, God is good! May the Lord bless and prosper you abundantly whoever that's reading this. :)