Monday, September 25, 2006 . 11:01 AM
Helo PPle! Lots of photos today to show. Had a crazy weekends. SO busy i feel like dropping dead now.
The 1st thanksgiving got to b thanking God that things are starting to move n pick up n becoming betta. I'm talking abt my mom. Somehow, my mom went to church, the catholic church behind my hse on fri, invited by her hongkong fren. I went with her bcos i was free. It was a normal praise and worship session + sermons. But ALL in chinese. Wah i had a terrible time trying to understand. Everything, every verses has to b translated in my brain b4 i understand. Some chinese words i can't rem how to read. Even if u know how to read, u don't know wat it means. Holy spirt, Praise, Worship, etc etc...u know it took mi a while to understand they are toking abt all these words? Bcos i don't understand! And to pray for someone it's called dai chou or something...and not qi dao....... something like that... And they know we are not catholics, welcomed us alot. Kept saying we are one etc. Well it's rather encouraging actually. Some pple thinks that catholics have weird theology. I used to think so too, but after knowing catholicsm betta, i beg to differ. In fact the whole time i was there, it felt like a usual praise n worship sermon anywhere in the protestant side. I did understand most of the sermon message,to much of my surprise.
Anyway im not talking abt catholicm vs protestants now. Wat i have to b thankful was that u guys know that these few weeks had been bad for mi... i asked God please open doors of oppurtunities, places, events that i can bring my mom to, esp church, or anything that will give my mom a chance to know GOd. And before i knew it, God was aldy pulling my mom to church. I kninda know last min that she's going to church, she didn't tell mi, so without much tots i went with her. When we were home that nite, i was thinking, omg!! that was such a breakthru!! Do u have any idea how many prayers, how many wishes was fulfilled that nite??!! I kept praying that my mom will b willing to go church. I kept being rejected. Now she's going without mi asking. I prayed for a day in the future where i can go church with my family, like how some family goes to church every sunday and they sit together in the service. I prayed for that SOMEWHERE in the future it will happen. But hey!! it happeneed on friday! It didn't hit mi till i was home that nite. Wow.... God gave mi hope when i can find nothing in the situation to give mi any. But yes..now i see hope. I see even bigger hope! That it's easier to bridge the gap b/w mi n mom, and even more opportunities for God to touch her.
I was v busy on sat, with alot of stuffs. Tok abt that later.. Then i found out that my mom went with the fren to another catholic church in jurong or something for another talk. I was like wah..... my mom so zai man.. But i c that my mom will require a long time b4 she will finally experience for herself the Love of God and finally melt her hardened heart, since she has been thru alot of heartbreaking stuffs.
So i was in my own church on sun. My church building houses 2 churches, the queenstown methodist church (chinese) and Faith methodist church. They started their
6 weeks' of studying of Purpose Driven Life book by Rick Warren. IN CHINESE.of cos lar..it's chinese church wat. Yeah there's Purpose Driven Life translated in chinese. The book looks exactly like the english version, in purple cover but the title is something like the 2 chinese character i've circled. According to the auntie at the counter who was selling the chinese ver at $10.50 and the english ver at $8.00 (!!!!! so cheap), it's read as biao gan(which tone i have no idea) bcos i don't even know how to read the character in the 1st place -_-. 
So they kicked off the 1st part of the book. As you can see from their bulletin, the topic touched on etc...well took mi a while to read thru....more chinese characters that i can't even pronounce. 
This is the bulletin from my own service. haha...
This is the book that Jen bought for mi in 2003 for my bday. And im still currently stuck on chapter 16 after 3 years haha...by next week, the congregation would have covered chapter 16 liao. Gasp. ok...
I went to ask aunty abt all the information abt this..they even studying in depth in their own cell grps. Im commiting this to prayer,i will ask my mom to go to the the chinese service next sunday. And i'll invite her fren along in case she doesn't wan to b with mi alone ( but cannot b lar..im her beloved daughter lor...) So i hope she will go. And if she's willing i'll get her the book. I doubt she will read but u never know...if she ever happens to read, it will b gd for her.. it's a gd book after all.
Yap and for my mom. I'll commit myself to properly and willingly brush up on my chinese, n memorise the chinese terms, and bring my english bible to the sermon (or i'll die..really...can u imagine the books of the bible in chinese? some words i donoe how to read leh.....then even if can read oso donoe wat book isit..or will have to double check the chinese bibles and then read my own english one. ) Juz so that i can tok to her more abt God in the language that she understands.
Sat was so busy for mi. I dragged myself out of bed at 10am. I slept at 2am. Some prankster, obviously hates mi or something. Called mi 3 times in the morning and then put the phone down on mi when i picked up. Kaoz. So tired. So pissed. I was so angry that i almost lost my senses, i called the person back, MANY Freaking times, with the intention to scold the person, i presume it's a guy lar. one time wrong no it's fine.2 times it's ok. I called after he called the 2nd time..and then he kept hanging up my calls. So i supposed he got the 'idea' that he called the wrong no. Then i went happily to sleep. he called 3rd time n hang up on mi. So i bugged him for nearly 5 mins, calling n calling n calling and he kept cancelling my calls. Wat an idiot.
Then b4 i knew it, my fren keith, who i bought the AIA life insurance from, picked mi up and accompanined mi to the clinic somewhere in dobhy ghaut. can't rem the building's name, it's beside paradiz centre. They sent mi to do a checkup, HIV test, some other normal routine body checkups bcos i work in the lab and they said bcos i have to deal with animal organs n blood samples ( i don have to deal with blood actually!) they are afraid im HIV positive.-_- these pple need some basic medical knowledge leh...but then i cna't blame them cos they donoe wat i really do..so i agreed lor. Keith accompanied mi mah. Then the nurse at the counter saw us came in and we were late, she has to say,' U are here for teh HIV test rite?', there were 2 other pple in the small clinic. Where should i hide my face. Omg...the stigmas of HIV. To make things worse, i came with a guy. So i suppose i understood y the other 2 pple in the room gave mi weird looks, or rather gave US weird looks.OMG. I was too shocked to say anything, cos frankly speaking i didn't really expect it, i was still half awake. Blah bLah Blah ..when im finally done, we left for orchard.He had to meet his client and i have to attend canon workshop with Huida n Van.
The workshp was rather interesting,mainly the stories the photographers shared on their experience of taking photos for media.
Then watched ' The devil wears prada' after that with Deying,Van and Albert. Not bad show.I think i like it bcos of all the gd clothes inside!! makes mi wanna dress up too! Meryl steep's acting was superb. haha..love her character.
Last of all, Deying bought my mom a noodle making machine to make her feel happier. My mom was quite touched, was very happy haha...thanks deying. Ur so nice. Now i got all the homemake noodles i can eat at home hee...thx so much. Ur tour guide is the coolest prettiest gal ard. HO HO
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