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got lazy to blog again=D

baaa holiday life is rottish.=)
and i love it to bits=)

last three weeks of hols. and all of the sudden i have jobs! LOL and all the phonecalls came within one day. gonna be richer at the end of the month.
1. had a 2hr survey job at huix's internship place.
2. relief teaching this friday till next friday.
3. flyers job with nana on friday+sat.
and then gonna be helping out at HQ for the fund collection and call centre for the philippines flood thingy till end of next week too. so i guess for a change i'll be busy for two weeks? LOL=)

and for a change, units gathering on saturday (like REALLLY gathering cus majority are going=D) and meeting ning and jiewei the week b4 sch starts=)

but, timetable kinda yuckk. 4-6pm on tuesday.4hrs break on wed.3hrs break on thurs. last semester though, so i really hope it'll be a memorable one. i love my class girls alot. we've really been through those crazy days together that only ECH ppl will understand, so i really hope that we'll just make lots of good memories together while working hard for the final semester. =)

jiayou!

apple crumble

starting this entry with a quote from Corrie Ten Boom again. Her word of encouragement is a great blessing. I would love to read this book which she has writtened.

"And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same.
Each had a hurt he had to forgive."
— Corrie Ten Boom (The Hiding Place)

To keep holding onto a hurt, is to keep holding onto bitterness. And this was something which i learnt. Sometimes we say that we've forgiven, but have we really? I've been hurt really badly in the past..but through God's love, I've learnt to commit my hurts to Him, and really forgiving the person who hurt me. and that is why i finally found my relief=) Forgive and experience God's healing=) Do you have a hurt you have to forgive? Someone you have to forgive?

=) baking day again yesterday! tried apple crumble again cus apparently deon said that he loved the crumble the other time. Kiki helped us too=) Recipe from videojug hahas but our end product looked really different from that in the video la. so yups, once again, my very helpful kitchen partner helped me with the tedious stuff=) hahas. it's actually quite easy to make the apple crumble. you just need to chop the apples into cubes, add sugar and cinnamon=)i feel that brown sugar works better than white sugar though.then for the crumble part, it's just flour, sugar and butter. it was funny watching a big guy trying to tackle the buttery texture=P after that, just need to stew it=) have to keep stirring it to prevent burning, and its really cool watching it cook. first it looks really dry, then the juice starts coming out and it'll actually boil! okay. i sounded dumb saying that. but yups after it becomes soft, we have to leave it to cool, and then the juice actually kinda disappeared leaving the sugar syrup looking thing.

while waiting for it to cool, deon figured out how to use the oven again. lol=) i seriously think he's smart la. its like, i couldnt remember which switch we used the other time, and he could actually remember and stuff. im amazed sometimes, cus even though im supposed to be observant as an ECHeducator=.=, my memory isnt very good. and little things, he actually notices and remembers. kinda cool.and.. tadaa.. crumble in oven=) hahas dont have a nice photo of the final product,looks kinda weird.. but taste good=) hahas and most importantly, it was fun=)lol. my mom keeps saying that i should have gone to some baking or cooking school instead of ECH. but owells, at least im enjoying what im doing now. and like deb said in her blog, im excited about what God has in store for me from here, after year3.

next week, hopefully i'll get to meet up with bestie and units=) ECP on children's day with the girls? a bunch of ECHeducators celebrating children's day tgt. hmmm=) hols is ending in 3 weeks? im grateful for this break la=) though my horrible lousy irritating cough is still lingering after three months=( but I know God will heal me before school starts=)

another point to ponder before i head off, was doing Purpose Driven Life yesterday and came across this. that when we all accept Christ into our lives, God has a service/ministry for us.
"Jesus now has a new pair of eyes to see with, new ears to listen with, new hands to help with, and a new heart to love others with"
=)

monday.

=) was watching Plain White T's 1234 official music video and i was smiling like a retard at those interesting descriptions of families and couples. sweet. =)

so yay! what im i doing? im rotting=) happily rotting from boredom at home. i baked apple crumble (which i kept saying apple crumpler=.=) on sunday evening (thanks julie for the cinnamon!=D) which i didnt take any photos cus, i was trying hard to keep an eye on my toaster oven. my amazing mini bread toaster oven can actually bake! just that i duno if the crumble part is actually really baked=X after putting in one for ten minutes, it became black chao ta. so in the end i baked the others at around 7 minutes nia, when the recipe called for 30-45mins=P soooo =) i hope it's really edible. gave one to deon=P but my mom said it was too sweet and threw them away=(( so i didnt get to share the love with more people.

me loves to bake! =) can that be counted as my hobby? LOL deon and mercy asked me about what hobbies i have and I realised that im usually too busy during school term to do something. and then i always am proud to mention about a weird hobby i used to have when i was like in preschool? kindergarten up to i guess primary two? hahas while people were collecting stamps, cards and stickers (i have 4 sticker books!), i collected tissue paper covers!=D muahaha. a box with 2 albums=)

i used to be soo dilligent in placing every tissue cover into a slot in an album=P but you know! covers in the past were really interesting! compared to the common designs these days.. i had 2 albums of DIFFERENT designs okay! I would collect different colours of the same design.

hahas=) i can still rmb how my mother and uncles used to purchase different designs just for my collection=D blessed little girl i was=) and these are my favourites! though this tissue brand seem to have ceased to exist in singapore?

andand this seemed to be like the olden days carebear? LOL=)

and then, yesterday was public hols! met with deon and we went tony romas at orchard for lunch. im in loveee with the chicken there=) and the onion loaf is delicious too! i always thought that onion loaf was those delifrance kind.. the bigbig bun with a hole in the centre with soup. but it wasnt! it was onion!=.= okay i sounded stupid saying that. but my point is, it's a must-try and deon loves it to bits

we shared a rib+chicken combo which was super filling too=) my chicken! hahas yus,gel and kaye would rmb my fascination about chicken wings back in seconday school=) but yups, im a lover of juicy chicken! =)

=) full and satisfied, we went far east where i finally bought a pair of wedges (the shoe. not the food) =) i have miniature feet. i wear size 34, and usually the smallest shoe size is 35=( hence it's extremely hard to get a shoe that fits. and after dragging him arnd far east, i think deon was the happier one when i FINALLY found something that fits=) so i guess it wasnt an impulsive buy *guilty*=X but yups after that we went down to amk to meet the youths for dinner=) the youths were supposed to bring teacher kc out for dinner as part of our effort for five-fold appreciation day. jerm did a great job coordinating the entire thing, and found a great place for cze char dinner=)

had a good time of fellowship, I was really blessed by aunt kelly's sharing about her personal experiences in her walk with God. and i came to understand once more, that God may work in ways that our human minds cannot percieve and understand, but nothing is impossible for Him. To hear of God, and to experience Him for oneself, it's totally different=) like one of my favourite song (by aaron shust- my Saviour my God) goes "That He would leave His place on high, And come for sinful man to die, You count it strange, but once did I, Before I knew my Savior", before i recieved Christ, the entire idea of Jesus dying on the cross to redeem His people was just so far and weird. But now, four years walking with Him, I now better understand=)

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16

and yups! =) after dinner with them, i went back to cck and met up with yel,gel,huix at macs. though it was only for a while, it was nice to see them again. and huix reminded us about "the ladies!" and we talked about the keychains

smsed aren yang tgt, thought about planning ccaleaders camp, mr chia's "J O O D, G O B" (supposed to be GOOD JOB) in the wee hours of the morning when we were staying up till 4am during the camp=) sweet memories=) units really hasnt have a full gathering since a long time..i am starting to look forward to units chalet=) and not seeing them after sooo long (guilty for missing gatherins=X)
huix said "mel! you look so yellow. like your shirt. and you're less tan than last time"
yel said "aiyo your eyebags" (i didnt get enough sleep cus of my cough=( )
gel said "mel! you're so skinny"
haha=) and they're still the same trying to trick me with suhui's voice-unlock phone=.=

yucks my horrible nemotic eyes and weird fringe=(

remember.

"Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work."
"Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here."
— Corrie Ten Boom (The Hiding Place)

when i read these two quotes from her, i found myself nodding in agreement. My confession. How foolish, how forgetful i was, not to have realise that He has been there all along. And after talking to someone yesterday, I found myself stunned for a moment, but im proud of how i can always keep my cool. She said that she was expecting a big reaction from me so she was trying hard to be tactful with her words. Honestly, I was hurt to know what was going on, and i was tempted to call a friend almost immediately. But I remembered that it makes a difference who you bring a problem to first. and I'm glad I brought it to Him first=) and God just worked so wonderfully.

and I was really blessed by His grace=) looking back, Yr3Sem1 was a rush.. projects and attachment stuff going on at the same time was crazzyy. But somehow, everything was completed well one after another. and attachment centre itself was just really God's blessing. A Christian childcarecentre plus teachers who doesnt gossip but share testimonies of God's love during lunch, a class teacher who is same age as me and is a friend now=), great mentor who goes all out to help me, sweet kids who made me laugh and made supervision a breeze. so with these plus plus plus God's a-we-so-me love, i scored the best result I ever had so far=D praise God=) yups=)

and sooo on thursday i FINALLY met up with the girls for steamboat=) had a yumyum dinner and good time with them=) didnt take much photos cus was too busy eating my meatballs =DD but yups, click to enlarge and save the pics =)

ECP soon? but this time it's busmate's turn to plan=) hols ending in one month and then its the last lap. let's enjoy the last semester together=)

randomly bored=)

this is my life now.

WOAH! im back at this dead space. partly because im rotted bored and another part because blogger is finally working again so i dont have to work those irritating codes=D
i kupped the above picture off hazelnut's blog some much time ago and i thought that it was interesting=) that totally describes majority of my days now, my no-life life. im deprived of a social life partly because... im plain lazy=)
steamboat this thurs with the girls=) cant wait to catch up with some of them. me has been a horrible friend and hasnt been catching up with most of them since hols=( and i've wasted (okay not exactly wasted) 1.5 months of my hols away already. time flies. and im feeling random now.
and so sitting there eating rocher dao huay (beancurd) with deon last night, i was reminiscing those dao huay days at cosma. thinking of sec school days. i wonder if the guys still call each other up for dao huay in the late nights.. or has everyone been busy with army, and busy with their own things. hahas=) much missed. and even as deon talked about his valentine days in JC, i thought about mine in unity=) and it's interesting how i never fail to always remember wenjin's mug coaster which he bought for us at 4 for $2 from IKEA? LOL=) still sitting on my bookshelf=)
and soo i was reading up quotes and i found this page with quotes from this lady, and her quotes are really a blessing to read. and even as the worry about what is going to happen next after year 3, the next step of life, i was blessed by this particular quote.

"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."
— Corrie Ten Boom

"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope." Jeremiah 29:11
God has promised=)