Last Results-Out-Day

As much as I like the feeling of relief upon getting satisfactory results, I'm so glad I'm seeing the last of the results-out-days.

Well I'm very sure that this is not going to be the last time I'm awaiting a piece of paper with bated breath: one fine day the pages on a medical report is going to make me more tense than this (I hope not), but at least the academic ordeal of this is over! It was bad enough waiting for UPSR, PMR, SPM and STPM results, but this uni thing happens every semester and it has always been my least favorite part of the academic year.

I'm very thankful for my results :D I had four different dream-versions of it yesterday night. The last version of it consisted of me missing the third class honors by 0.01 of a CAP. The results came in the pink academic records book we used in Secondary school, and was distributed by my primary school form teacher who looked very grim. I was half-way counting the 'scores' and checking if the marks are correct (hoping to appeal for that 0.01 later), when I woke up. Well, I must say I brought this dream onto myself because I refused to wake up to check my phone to escape reality for a little while more. Now I'm safely right in the middle of the third class rank!

My FYP prof has been generous in his grading and I can't thank him more for that. Finally I realize those complimentary little exchanges we had during post-FYP meetings (Mei & I were writing a review paper for him) were not aimed at 'consoling' us. :p Furthermore I had found a few unwanted typing mistakes in my report after handing it in, and have grieved over them a little too late. :S It was nice working with him + Bevan. My Design Project received a rather good grade too. :)

Now the last thing I want to do in NUS (besides donning the graduation gown and receiving my cert of graduation), is to walk round the whole school and take pictures. NUS is really a very picturesque place at the right angles, and there are a lot of beautiful (non-academic) spots that are really nice. E.g. the top part of YIH feels like a forest especially when it rains.

I'm glad we all graduated in one piece! Thank God for these four years.

National Zoo Trip

I haven't been going out with my church friends in Tampin for quite some time. So this zoo trip to KL is one of those rare times. :)

It was quite fun - though a horrendous jam and various issues caused us to arrive at 11.30 am (almost noon). Still we managed to walk the whole Zoo Negara, and look at everything. Almost all the animals were hanging around.

Thank God for journey mercies and nice weather timing. It didn't rain until we had lunch and stopped after our lunch was over.

Thank God for a good time of fellowship too. I'm very proud after listening to some of the things they shared - and observing certain behavioral changes. :) Catching up with people can be very encouraging. In fact today I'm very much encouraged to serve more - to place more priority in serving although GLCC, big and well equipped as it is, sometimes seems not to 'need' certain people.

I will serve everywhere -not just in church!

It was a fun outing - but I'm too lazy to put it all down in words. Just remembered what Pastor shared from Romans: Creation shouts that there is an intelligent God who put together the universe (and many universes) each day and it details His wonder. Yet men refuse to believe, and are thus condemned because of this. Was meditating this song to myself in the van:

O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder,
Consider all the worlds Thy hands have made,
I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,
Thy power throughout the universe displayed!
Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee;
How great Thou art, how great Thou art.
Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee;
How great Thou art, how great Thou art!


Thank God for allowing me to experience Himself even through a day of fun :)

突然好想你

突然好想你

你會在哪裡

過得快樂或委屈

突然好想你

突然鋒利的回憶

突然模糊的眼睛

很喜欢这首歌的感觉. 五月天的阿信写的歌都很有感觉 (就好象他的<知足>一样). :) 只是觉得最后一句: "突然模糊的眼睛", 如果改写成"突然模糊了眼睛", 会比较让人感叹.

At Home

I'm now at home and am sort of doing my job applications from here.

I said sort of because there are not many jobs to apply for now. Yes, the job market is 'booming' now but most of the openings I see for my field are for diploma graduates. And no, they'd not hire a uni grad to do something that can be easily done by a post-diploma grad. It would be too expensive.

Anyway - I shall just wait and see :) Hopefully our choice of accommodation in Singapore would be determined soon. I shall miss being Tirza's roomie so I hope we will get to bunk together once in a while.

I shall miss BS with Simon in Singapore too. And the BS regulars - Stacey, Justin, and JonC. The Romans journey was most inspiring and life-changing. It was inspiring to see how Simon pulled through it too. Despite immense stress at work and dwindling number of BS participants. I am really thankful for his faithfulness and testimony.

Yesterday I was just singing Amazing Grace to myself. I love all the four stanzas in that song. Usually I'd focus on the first and second, because I'd relate to them. But yesterday I remembered the fourth:

When we've been there ten thousand years,

Bright shining as the sun;

We've no less days to sing God's praise,

Than when we've first begun.

I love the way I felt the composer thought - he wanted to sing God's praise through eternity and joyfully reassured that he would be able to do so. First he was grateful for his salvation, and then he was glad that he was saved so that he could glorify God all the way to eternity.

Yes we have been beautifully and wonderfully saved. We have not just been redeemed from sin and death, but more amazingly, Christ now lives in us. That itself is beyond undeserved grace. Just redemption from sin is beyond deserving but Christ living in us, unworthy earthen vessels is more than one deserves.

And I love Pastor Jason's well-used analogy: A child asked his parent:" If Christ is bigger than the universe, and He lives in us, shouldn't He stick out?"

I pray that Christ be magnified in my life.