Everything in it's time - Corrinne May

Sometimes I wonder what lies ahead
How long till my hunger is fed
They say it's hard to make it in this part of town
So many people on this merry-go-round

Some folks try astrology
Some turn to crystal balls
To find an answer,
To get through it all
I just fall on my knees and I try to pray
In the silence I can hear Him say

The river runs and the river hides
Out to the ocean and under the sky
I promise you, the answer will come
Hold on to patience and watch for the sign
Everything in its time

I often feel like I'm two steps behind
Somebody must have moved that finish line
There are a thousand reasons
Why I should give up
But I'm stubborn in the things I believe

The river runs and the river hides
Out to the ocean and under the sky
I promise you, the answer will come
Hold on to patience and watch for the sign

'cause maybe there's another plan
One I still can't see
A little surprise, like your love in my life
Funny how time changes how we see

The river runs and the river hides
Out to the ocean and under the sky
I promise you, the answer will come
Hold on to patience and watch for the sign
Everything in its time
Everything in its time

went to e gym today! yay. second time since coming back to london. haha..memorable k. if u noe me, u noe i hate running. haha but i'm trying to get into a new habit of exercising regularly..so i will keep fit and healthy and wont fall sick easily! gambatte. heh..and altho i do prefer running outside to on a treadmill, e treadmills in ethos are temptingly nice with individual tv screens, and plus the weather outside is getting increasingly cold.

after gym-ing i went to the blyth to play abit on e piano..ah i feel so so rusty..it's like..i cant control my fingers! they're so rigid and stiff..and i seem to be playing one dynamic e whole time : ff. wat happened :( too long nv play le...sighs.

time's passing quickly, n e 4th week of school's down. we've got e next couple of weekends planned out more or less, jus hope we really do what we've planned!

be joyful in the Lord. be contented in the Lord. trust in the Lord.

finally..after 3 weeks, our house is complete. i dun think words alone can describe fully what we have been going thru e last 3 weeks..so i'll just let the pictures do the talking..haha..oh yes and another good news is that we finally got the internet set up at home..so..everything's really really done this time.

even though it wasnt easy, i really thank God for bringing us thru this time, and being able to settle everything finally. i always remb some seniors from CU telling us at e beginning of last year that in e first few weeks, u REALLY learn to depend on God even more..i think that's very true..esp when the going gets tough..but thankful for support from friends, family, jianen..thank you for always being there to listen to me, and bearing wif all my venting-stress-and-frustration times..i really thank God for you.

and i also remember the quote i saw on yuantying's blog which reminded me not to worry..that instead of telling God that ur problem's very big, instead, tell ur problem that you have a big God. and leave everything into his hands..i guess these things are easier to say on hindsight, when everything's settled and done, but it's still a lesson learnt for me, to depend on Him always for strength, and never to lose focus on God and God alone.

on hindsight, i think we had good times too..'household bonding'..haha..like watching desperate housewives and ANTM together, cooking, mahjong, bridge, putting together most of our furniture by ourselves (because they're from ikea), and MAJORLY whining and complaining about our house and landlord. haha.

oh weells. been too long-winded. haha..photos as promised..these were taken before e partitions were done, and when we were living out of boxes and luggages, as if we were refugees or illegal immigrants.

living room cum wat is now charlene's room..boxes everywhere..

living room cum what is now my room..

the corridor..

at long last, my completed room new cupboard! and bookshelf we put together ourselves from ikea
window and bed..xiaohui note ur otter on my bedside table :)

walls are still slightly empty..waiting for a poster sale in school so i can buy nice big posters for decoration..and i'm also gonna be printing lotsa pretty pretty photos to do up e room. :) yay.

okies. back to doing work..school's getting tougher and tougher..pace increasing, project and general work coming in..ahh. i'm learning to surrender all to God.

i feel so tired. more mentally than physically. and it's only e 3rd week of school.

smses
phone calls/skype
emails
tags on tagboard
e-cards
msn chat windows
dinner at four seasons
home visit at the end
cards in mail/by hand

a big thank you :)

updates...guess i havent described the state of our apartment yet. haha not in the mood to take photos of it either. basically, we're missing a wall - a partition between charlene and my room to make it two single rooms, and this cant be done till maybe next week or week after. boxes and ikea stuff all over teh place, and we're still living out of luggages and boxes even after 1 week of arriving in London. everything's messy, and it feels like a refugee camp. we currently also have no internet in the house, so we try to use the computers in school as much as possible. sighs.

however though, i'm kinda getting quite used to living lidat, and i'm beginning to see that it might not be THAT bad after all...living internet-less and partition-less makes us kinda sit around and talk to each other more...and we just started watching the latest seasons of desperate housewives and america's next top model together. fell sick oso, and i sometimes can break out in coughing fits..but thankful for housemates who cook some healthy herbal stuff for the throat..hope i get well soon..and also, get into the mood for realyl starting school soon.

i miss coming back to a home...

arrived in London jus 6 hours ago...went thru e pains of carrying my 30kg luggage up a flight of stairs to take the lift (sounds dumb in noe but that's gloucester road tube station for you), lugging it all e way to our house and discovering e rooms are not as we expected them to be..haha but no worries everything will go back to the original state over the next few days. also went to church...

hmm but right now, everything feels so surreal...hasnt really sunk in that school's gonna start all over again, many things are gonna happen and i'm back in London. things are gonna be different now that we're staying in an apartment together..but what's not gonna change that i miss family, friends and you you you. BUT i'm major psycho-ing myself that it's just 2 mths...which is really quite unhealthy thinking haha...at least it's working abit. Ok..it's been quite an eventful morning so far..going for lunch soon..hope to get internet and everything set up soon so we an comfortably use internet at home..ha..and that everything else like furniture gets settled soon. till more updates...ta. :)

Lord Jesus,
All through the storm, your love is the anchor
My hope is in you alone.