I would like to thanks everyone who celebrated my birthday with me. Really touched.....thanks.

I've got 4 groups to thank.

1. 08S26 - For the nice banana cake (It wasn't only for me but i was part of the many recipients). XD
2. 08S26 girls - For the adorable Doraemon and pretty heart shaped card. XD
3. My family and relatives - For the kiddy but nice cake with cartoon on it (baby tweety, baby Tasmanian devil and baby bugs bunny). XD
4. Church friends - For the lunch treat and the prima deli cake. (Thank you Gabriel for the lunch, Justin for the drink and Tims for the cake!) XD

Thank you all for your well wishes! Hope I've been a great friend just like you guys were great friends for me. For all those who are still asking me about promo results, I cleared with 2B, 2C and 2E. XD Jia you to everyone taking Chinese A levels and PW OP!~ XD

GOD IS SO GOOD,
This is so beautiful!
John 3:16

A little boy was selling newspapers on the corner, the people were in and out of the cold. The little boy was so cold that he wasn't trying to sell many papers. He walked up to a policeman and said, "Mister, you wouldn't happen to know where a poor boy could find a warm place to sleep tonight would you? You see, I sleep in a box up around the corner there and down the alley and it's awful cold in there for tonight. Sure would be nice to have a warm place to stay."

The policeman looked down at the little boy and said, "You go down the street to that big white house and you knock on the door. When they come out the door you just say John 3:16, and they will let you in." So he did. He walked up the steps and knocked on the door, and a lady answered.

He looked up and said, "John 3:16." The lady said, "Come on in, Son." She took him in and she sat him down in a split bottom rocker in front of a great big old fireplace, and she went off. The boy sat there for a while and thought to himself: John 3:16...I don't understand it, but it sure makes a cold boy warm.

Later she came back and asked him "Are you hungry?" He said, "Well, just a little. I haven't eaten in a couple of days, and I guess I could stand a little bit of food," The lady took him in the kitchen and sat him down to a table full of wonderful food. He ate and ate until he couldn't eat any more. Then he thought to himself: John 3:16...Boy, I sure don't understand it but it sure makes a hungry boy full.

She took him upstairs to a bathroom to a huge bathtub filled with warm water, and he sat there and soaked for a while. As he soaked, he thought to himself: John 3:16... I sure don't understand it, but it sure makes a dirty boy clean. You know, I've not had a bath, a real bath, in my whole life. The only bath I ever had was when I stood in front of that big old fire hydrant as they flushed it out.

The lady came in and got him. She took him to a room, tucked him into a big old feather bed, pulled the covers up around his neck, kissed him goodnight and turned out the lights. As he lay in the darkness and looked out the window at the snow coming down on that cold night, he thought to himself: John 3:16 ...I don't understand it but it sure makes a tired boy rested.

The next morning the lady came back up and took him down again to that same big table full of food. After he ate, she took him back to that same big old split bottom rocker in front of the fireplace and picked up a big old Bible. She sat down in front of him and looked into his young face. "Do you understand John 3:16?" she asked gently. He replied, "No, Ma'am, I don't. The first time I ever heard it was last night when the policeman told me to use it," She opened the Bible to John 3:16 and began to explain to him about Jesus. Right there, in front of that big old fireplace, he gave his heart and life to Jesus. He sat there and thought: John 3:16 -- don't understand it, but it sure makes a lost boy feel safe.

You know, I have to confess I don't understand it either, how God was willing to send His Son to die for me, and how Jesus would agree to do such a thing. I don't unde rstand the agony of the Father and every angel in heaven as they watched Jesus suffer and die. I don't understand the intense love for ME that kept Jesus on the cross till the end. I don't understand it, but it sure does make life worth living.

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

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness,you are more blessed than the million who won't survive the week.
If you have never experienced the danger of battle,the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture or the pangs of starvation, you are ahead of 20 million people around the world.
If you attend a church meeting without fear of harassment,arrest, torture, or death, you are more blessed than almost three billion people in the world.
If you have food in your refrigerator, clothes on your back,a roof over your head and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of this world.
If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.
If your parents are still married and alive,you are very rare, especially in the United States .
If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful,you are blessed because the majority can, but most do not.
If you can hold someone's hand, hug them or even touch them on the shoulder, you are blessed because you can offer God's healing touch.
If you can read this message, you are more blessed than overtwo billion people in the world that cannot read anything at all.
You are so blessed in ways you may never even know.

Promo results!~

Went for Youth Day Rally on Saturday and i have only one word for it. AWESOME!

The theme was ACTIV8. For people who reads the bible, it stands for Act 1:8
Kudos to Brother Derrick for being such a great emcee.
I especially loved the theme song, Receive the Power by Guy Sebastian.

I would say that i have never regretted signing up to be a junior catechist because i really learned much from the experiences I had with my ever hyper group of students and my great mentor Shermaine. These few months with the kids really made me grow much in faith. Its like a calling to serve and I'm glad I answered that call.

The youth day rally really helped me grow closer to my students through the praise and worships where we sang our hearts out together. They are good students. I want to be a good teacher for them.

I got my I&R back. Got a low M.E. wanted to try to make it a M.E work but I don't know how to improve it further. Yesterday I pitied tedmond, today mine turn out worse. I had zero comments on my I&R.

Really want to give him a good draft. Really do. I feel so hopeless for PW because my english is simply bad. I can't make my work as nice as others. And when I need comment on my english or anything at all, i get none. This is so unfair.

Guess I'll have to try my luck on this. Bad days please go away....

I really don't appreciate the fact that I've got my PW teacher back. He was actually sleeping during my class oral presentation (OP). And while he was sleeping, i was actually giving eye contact (staring at him from time to time). Great. His first comment for me was " Carmen, you have no awareness of audience.". The hell?? Like he knew at all, he was sleeping! He has zero respect for his students.

I really pitied him when i heard from many of my friends that they don't like him as well. Does this mean that he is a sad sad teacher with no love? But now i think back, he is really not worth the pity. Fancy him sleeping during our OP when he kept emphasizing on its importance (40%). If he was really tired and wanted to continue another day, he could have told us so. BUT NO! He had to sleep or touch his hand phone every 5 minutes. Unbelievable. He is the weirdest teacher i ever had.

I hope he will improve soon. I'm sure he didn't become a teacher so as to kill the students by only giving them a vague two liner comment for their I&R which obviously has many things that need to be improved on (Feels sorry for classmate Tedmond). I pray to the dear Lord to make this teacher wake up to his senses and I pray that my class will see a better him tomorrow.

Finally the exams are over. Not that I'm very happy about it.

However, my learning journey does not stop there. One of my ambitions is actually to be a teacher so i joined my church group to take Secondary three students for sunday classes.
Now the challenge is, although I may have joined for near 5 months, I've never held a lesson before. All the planning and powerpoint slides makes me giddy. *faints*

*wakes up* The fear engulfs me once again. I...I....I have to do this.

My past experiences, like looking at my friends tremble in front of the large group of near 200, stammering and twisting their shirts and pants pockets, breaking out in cold sweat, does not help build up my confidence at all.

I aim to make my powerpoint presentation as interesting and self explainatory as possible so that the amount of time that i need to speak into the microphone would be greatly decreased.
But then again, it will be boring. My mentor is currently having her exams so i don't really want disturb her.

Looks like a job for GOOGLE!~ As the saying goes : " If you don't know something, just GOOGLE it!" Well, that's exactly what I'm gonna do for the contents part. But the making lessons less boring part, i shall have to ask my dear teachers in PJC tomorrow.

(The above is another account of Carmen's boring yet exciting life, tune in for more if you've got nothing better to do! ) ^_^