the monday b4 last, during cell group, i rmmr huifang asking all of us this - if we truly believe that prayer is the way to revival, and yet we aren't praying enough, ask ourselves why we aren't doing so.

for me, it's that i lack discipline... jialing here's a lazy bum. and pretty distracted by things of the world too these days. there's like a million and one things to be doing, a million and one things competing for our attention. hais. i need a prayer buddy, or a quiet time buddy to bug me (n vice versa, so i bug that person as well) to do quiet time.

was thinking yesterday that i wanna pray for quite a number of people. so here goes, in no order of importance, and some without names cos might not be nice to name in some.

Dear God, i pray for those people still having exams, people like Annie, QinYing and Jason in particular, that you'll continue to sustain them through this tiring and stressful period. i pray that they will have peace in their hearts as they study, that they'll be able to focus and absorb whatever they're studying. help them to really concentrate and productive, and not to be easily distacted by other things. help to know when to take appropriate breaks as well. i thank you Lord for their faith in You, that they still honour You by coming for service and cell group. i pray that even through periods like these, they will grow in You, because they will learn to rely and depend on You. :)

Dear God, thank you for Clarissa. Thank you for blessing me with this friend in my life. Thank you that even though its been... like ten million years since i last had a proper heart to heart chat with her and/or met her to catch up, i know Lord that our friendship has its foundation in You, and that You'll watch over and guard this precious friendship. I thank you Lord, that during this exam period, she does not feel sian studying. I pray that for her remaining 2 papers, you'll continue to sustain her through. that she'll even enjoy what she's learning, and wont feel stressed, i pray that she'll know how to manage her time properly so as to finish studying everything. that somehow, in Your own special way, You'll help her to be aware of what are the more important things to study. and i thank you Lord for the fun i know we'll have when we finally meet up again... :)

Dear Lord, i pray for my dear friends who are spiritually dry at this point in their lives, or even just somewhat lost or feeling meaningless, or who just feel that they are backsliding. i dont know what to say, but Lord, i pray that you will refresh them. that You will give them a fresh touch of You, and revive them Lord... that whatever issues they may have and may be struggling with, Lord You will speak to them , give them an answer, and that they'll be assured once more of Your sovereignty, and be able to trust in You knowing You are in full control and that you have exciting plans for them... remind them Lord that You love them so very very much, and that You'll never leave or forsake them. Refresh them Lord... refresh these 3 friends of mine, the 3 friends i'm praying for in particular at this moment.

Dear Lord, i pray for Your continued protection over my dearest dearest brother, currently far far away in Grand Canyon... i pray that he'll be able to settle down and adapt to the environment there, and that he'll get along well with the people there as well as make new friends. At the same time Lord, i pray You guard his heart from negative, undesirable influences. I pray that He'll be able to find a church service there to attend, that he will even want to do so, even though he does not do so in Singapore. I pray that you just enlarge that God-shaped vacuum in him that all of us have, that he'll want to deepen his relationship with you, and to grow in You oh Lord... whatever problems that he may face there, i pray that You will help him to face anf overcome them. i pray for favour for him, favour by his employers, his superiors, the people he's serving on waiting on or whatever... that he will enjoy favour with all these people.

Dear Lord, i commit to You friends who do not know You and who have not accpeted You, in particular xiaohui, junyuan, cheryl, kah hua, and even my new ngee ann friend, kenedict. Lord i pray that create in them a desire to want to know You... i thank you for the openess of some of them towards finding out more about You... i pray that You touch their hearts and prepare them for that one day when they will feel compelled by the truth, and will accept you whole-heartedly into their lives as their saviour and friend. i pray Lord, that this special day be sooner rather than later. Lord i pray that You will just reveal yourself to them in special intimate ways, such that they cannot possible doubt that it is You Lord at work in their lives. i pray Lord that you remove whatever obstacles that are in their paths, preventing them from accepting You... or that You just address their concerns, whatever concerns they may have. i pray too, Lord, for the boldness to share with them about You, that i will know when are the appropriate times to share, and what to share as well. that i will be led by the prompting of the Holy Spirit, who will guide my lips. Thank you Father. Also, i pray that you will help me to be a betteer friend to them, that you will help me to live my life in such a way that they can see You in me, and will hence wanna get to know You for themselves as well...

Dear Lord, i thank You for seeing Wei Siong through his studies at Michigan. i thank You for the excellent results that he's graduatin with, and i thank You too, for the path you've prepared for him. as he heads back to Singapore, i pray You grant him journey mercy as well as a safe journey, and that he'll able to get enough rest and sleep well on the plane. Lord, i thank You for guarding and protecting our relationship all this while. i pray that You will continue to be at the centre of this relationship, holding the 2 of us together, that as a couple we will strive to honour You and obey Your ways, supporting and encouraging each other in You. i pray that you will work in his life, changing him so irrevcably that people around him, like his family, will notice the positive ways in which You have changed Him, and will hence be more open to You oh Lord...

ok, this roughly sums up my prayer list for now... actually there are still things and people i wanna pray for, but due to time constrains, i'll continue at a later time. gotta start preparing to go for service liaos!!! :)

it's sunday morning! :) got service later, hehe. and chinese tuition at 3 pm. i discovered to my horror yest during tuition, that my tutee's chinese exam is on wed 2nd May! that's like, a few days away, n he only just told me cos i was smart enough to ask! gosh. gave me a minor heart attack lor :P hehe. anyway, my tutee is a cute little boy (not that little actually, sec 2 already! he's tall n skinny/lanky. heh) i enjoy teaching him these days. :)

yest sat, had chinese tuition at 10.45 am, then went for dance from 1 - 3.30 pm, then went to meet josh at nlb. returned some books and borrowed more! 1 fiction book (fantasy actually. funny, feels like ages since i last read a proper fiction book just because. have i been that busy?!? haha) and erm, 3 ECH books. i've been borrowing n borrowing lots of ECH books, though i havent gotten round to reading them... oops... haha. anyway, helped josh choose his new specs frame for army re-service, then we went walking around... rather, we went to look for food. haha. ate at marina square food court, i tried claypot gong bao rice!!! :) dunno why, every time i see claypot stuff i rmmr fifififififif :) cos i think there was once i met up with her for a meal n she ate that. n it looked nice. so yesterday, i finally satisfied my craving for claypot rice! hehe :) oh actually, my school canteen sells that too... i will go try one day :) anyway, the highlght of meeting joshjosh yest was... the super interesting conversation we had. muahahahaha. SUPER interesting ok. firstly, i finally learnt about his whole long love life story... also learnt that he's had a few, erm, very interesting experiences... oh man, hilarious :) my buddy here 魅力 wu fa dang ok... anyway, it will be interesting to watch n note what kind of girl my buddy here will get attached to in future... hehe... :) and now i know how come sometimes i see him online, but he hardly comes to talk to ME... cos he's busy chatting with other pple la... muahaha :D

had coffee (espresso ice blended with vanilla) at gloria jean's with josh, after which we were feeling super full and so went walking again... ended up at fullerton hotel, my fave hang out with my boyboy :) can't wait to visit that place with my boy again :) continued chatting till like 10.35pm there, then finally went home. nice day! oh yes, i was very 不要脸 cos i asked him some very starighforward questions... about me... muahaha... sorry la, me here pretty curious about what type of girls guys find pretty and/or attractive ma. :P

had another interesting conversation with yippy later at night. hur hur. its very interesting to hear stories about guy friends' love lives... :P

finally went to bed at close to 2am. started reading my fantasy fiction book at 1 + am... *guilty look* i must not fall asleep in church today, i must not fall asleep in church today, i must NOT fall asleep in church today!!!

TGIS!!! Thank God It's Sunday! :) cos after sunday comes monday, and on this monday night, i'll be heading to changi airport to wait for my boyboy after cell group!!! *excited* GRINz (",)

i have more serious things that i wanna blog about... so i'll start it in a new entry :)

annie n jinfay, you two are so cute and funny... was so amused reading the comments u 2 left! :)

sorry la, i know my blog very wordy. that''s why i have a blog, cos i have a lot of "rubbish" to unload ma :) next time when i'm old can look back and read whatever nonsense i wrote b4 :)

anyway, not that i dont wanna put photos, but sometimes blogger refuses to co-operate with me! notti blogger. hehe.

on a seperate note... was feeling incredibly guilty just now. super duper guilty. at least the feeling has abated. hais. how could i have spent so much $$$ on those?!? so i was rationalizing, trying desperately to make myself feel better. maybe it helped, cos at least i'm not feeling so guilty now. i need control. self-control!

wells. let XXXX (the stuff i bought yest n today) be my 21st bday present to mysef la...

on another different note... HURRAY!!! my darling's gonna be back in sunny ole singapore very very soon! (not that sunny these days tho. more like rainy. grrrr)

GRINZ :)

on zhiyang's 21st in his house... with him forced to wear the lovely birthday cap that i bought and decorated with the words "i am the birthday boy!" hehe :)

hahaha. thats my classmate after my cousin got his birthday cake all over him... i'm sure it was memorable for him though! :D

my mummy and relatives at the ten dollar club during ktv! from left - grace, aka mp's sister, auntie swee lin, auntie lee hwa, and my mommy! which reminds me, mother's day is quite soon. like in 2 weeks time haha.

kah hua, cheryl and myself at new york new york :) shuen where are you?!?!?! photoshop urself in la. haha.

that's the first person i got to know in ngee ann! she's kamariah, my classmate! nice nice girl :) actually tho, LOTS of nice girls in my class... or for that matter, they are ALL nice girls :) with 2 nice boys la. haha!

my class photo! we are 1BO2... BO reminds me of body odour... :P

yay! my lessons for the day (friday) has officially ended... was kinda dreading the lesson cos its supposed to be like 3 hours (jialing doesnt like long lessons!) but it has now ended after 2 hours, so YAY! :) unfortunately, its raining :( it keeps raining these days... bad bad... bad weather... our reservoirs had better be filling up man!

some of my classmates behind me r watching youtube... muahaha :P oh yes this lesson was quite cool. cos we're supposed to bring laptops, then at the start of the lesson, we were all msn-ing, n i was listening to music! :) and from there we were like talking abt CLASS OUTING! hoho :) they're saying wanna go watch movie on monday... cos our monday lesson is changed to wed. hee :P and this guy (1 out of 2 guys in my class) was saying let's go KTV! and so i was happily telling them about ten dollar club. ~GRIN~ i think ten dollar club should give me commission man... i think i bring them a lot of business!

so anyway, from the above u can surmise that i'm quite happy in my class :) my classmates are nice pple! and i feel comfy with them :) and i like what i'm studying too. and there r interesting ccas to participate in. so. i like ngee ann! i'm a happy girl! :D

oh yes... shuen called me that day when i was in school! was kinda a surprise, cos wasnt expecting her to be calling me anytime soon. having just spoken toher on sat when cheryl kh n i met up. had a nice nice heart to heart chat with her :)

ok i shall end off for now... shall zao from school already! tata! :)

p/s: my classmate's gonna watch phantom of the opera!!! heh. actually, i wanna watch a midsummer's night dream more... heee... *hint hint* :)

darn. dunno whats wrong with my blogger, always give me trouble when i try to upload photos, hmph!

had a nice night out yesterday with the guys! haha. zhiyang, gordan n yengyong. (dunno how to spell his name lah. let's just call him yy. heh) only got to know yy recently, on zhiyang's 21st actually... but not bad can kind of click, and talk laugh joke together. 4 of us just nice can play bridge together one day... hehe. anyway, met them yest night to go eat snails! yes SNAILS - otherwise known as escargots, a french cuisine. tasted like mussels in butter garlic sauce to me. guess i wouldnt specially go eat it again, unless i bring weisiong there to try or something. there refers to this french restaurant in bugis! the street where there's a kim's hokkien mee... and btw, i think that street is really really nice! kinda reminiscent of hong kong streets, as zhiyang commented. got lots of very interesting eateries there. i must really bring weisiong there to explore!!! *excited*

so, we had our main course (hokkien mee) first b4 proceeding for escargot n dessert... and over dinner, i was happily merrily telling the 3 guys about Sigmund Freud, having just learnt about him n his psychosexual theory in lecture today. muahahaha. over dessert n escargot, poor yy was getting bullied as usual by the other 2, who kept teasing him abt taking an artistic photo with the painting of a woman on the wall behind him... got some, erm, interesting shots of yy n the painting... haha :P the dessert, brownie with ice cream n apple crumble with ice cream, was decent enough la for the price - $4. OH. i forgot to mention. this place HAS NO GST!!!! hahaha. so yes, very good, i support them. will wanna go back and try their lunch set meal. its like $12.90 nett for a 5 course set lunch, or $8.50 nett for a no frills set lunch, so just mian course drink n salad. which in any case, i think is all very worth it! so, any one wanna date me for lunch at this french restaurant? ~grin~

and the highlight of the day... i got my bday present from zhiyang!!! we were passing thru bugis junction when we came across poh khim having their sale... and some of the series are much cheaper than they would otherwise be... so i was seriously tempted :P and zhiyang picked up on it, and asked if i'd like one for my bday present... and so i chose 十兄弟！因为这部戏有我最喜欢的香港女演员- 郭可盈！而且，在这部戏里，她是跟她的老公演一对夫妇呢！hehe :) just that i feel quite bad for causing zhiyang to part with quite a big sum of $$$.... in any case, THANKS so much ya friend? it was a very nice gesture on your part. (p/s: u dont need to treat me to movie anymore! ok? haha) i think i should treat u to a meal or something after burning such a big hole in your pocket...

oh yes, had very interesting discussions about boys n girls with those 3 guys. wah, super hard to get a proper answer out of gordan lah! learn from me, í was so forthcoming with my answers lor :) so was zhiyang. haha. too bad i didnt get to ask the sheep who he finds pretty in my class, haha! (cannot ask la, later he feels pressurized to list me as one of them, HAHA)

that about wraps up my wednesday night out, hehe. had 2 lectures in school b4 that. was so sleepy during the 2nd lecture, only just managed to keep myself from falling asleep! oh and i know which childcare i'll be attached to for my field practicum on tuesdays mornings already... the childcare is very near my house! yay, can cycle there. haha. :)

on another note... i didnt realise i was so emotionally attached to my bro. it really feels kinda funny to see the bathroom devoid of his cup n toothbrush, his towel etc... and his room empty... ah wells! kor, if you're reading this, just wanna say i miss you! hope u settle down nicely in grand canyon and enjoy yourself! :) must read my blog regularly for updates ok! looking forward to webcamming with you... and oh yes, dont bully aiwei ok! :) ~GRINS~

in my 2nd week of school already, school's nice, went for my first dancesport meeting on tues night, learnt progressive cha cha! which actually i'm quite sure i learnt in rgs. made a new guy friend, the guy i was dancing cha cha with. nice guy, but they're all younger than me, all my xiao didis, haha :P am disappointed though that i'll be missing the dance camp... :( HAIS. cant be helped, i'll be in yunnan then! another time i guess.

ngee ann choir concert this sat night!!! havent found someone to go with me. worst case scenario is i'll go by myself. haha. anyone interested? its 28 apr sat night at nus cultural theatre... tix at $10 i think :) let me know asap k? haha

YUNNAN PRAYER MEETING this sat 10.30 am at bethel prayer room!!! must go remind everyone. haha. must get their full names n nrics for my cousin to book air tickets too. haha. what would my cousin do without me man??? :)

oh i forgot, my interesting wed night out kinda ended with a chat on the phone with my yippy friend! aka jason la. haha. whose supposed to be my "korkor", but upon discovering that he has like a million n one meis, i decided i dont wanna be his mei already, so not special lor! so now i'm his twin. muahaha :) that boy is a barrel of laughs... full of crap too, so very entertaining to talk to. jiayou twin!!! he has 2 more papers on wed n fri next week... why your papers end so late one?!!?!?!!! haha :D and hury up confirm whether u're going yunnan with us k! :)

wei n family plus an extra me! uncle and auntie were/are so so SO nice to me! :)

cousins! after a yummylicious lunch at crystal jade palace restaurant :)

my beloved cousin who's been in USA for many many years already...

wei wei, myself, and an albino snake... :)

my beloved cousin joanna again! dont we look oh so cute? :P

my darling chio weiwei :)

fang, shuling n me during k golden on ladies night! :)