Easter Sunday

Beautiful Easter Sunday. Our Easter performance went well, praise God! (Peky, Yi Jie and Ji Feng... you rock, people!)

I am looking forward to seeing more expression of talents, especially by JF... feel like he holds back too much and suppresses himself sometimes. I mean... he ad-libs really well - perhaps he feels more comfy singing songs in which one can be spontaneous and free. Like this one time, we did a goofy session during one of our practices (we turned the original version of "More Than Amazing" into this cool, old-school jazzy version. Recorded it just to shock Daniel Khoo into believing that we went nuts when he wasn't around! He said that he nearly flipped when he heard that recording! Haha!) - but guess what, Peky and I loved that goofy version to bits. We listened to it over and over and over again. And JF - he was amazing in that recording. He was himself. Beautiful and God-glorifying to the fullest.

So let's encourage him, shall we? :) TMC people, if you are reading this, you know what to do. :D

This is the first Easter Sunday I did not take any pictures.

I don't think I'll take anymore self-pictures till my honeymoon, lolx... coz I am pong-pong thanks to PMS and weird cravings... my face is haggard thanks to all those late nights slogging on assignments - and I basically have no time.

Back to my assignments.

Friday tomorrow!

*Smiles in glee*

But this week has been awesome, I promise. Even though I am quite tired by now (early mornings and rather late nights) the encouragement God has given to me about my circumstances through the Book of Joshua has totally lifted up my spirit. Such a timely course to go through in possibly my last term as an active student at MBTS. Such timely words of God received into my heart.

A picture Evelyn Ong tagged me in...Brings me to remember Long Lamai...and the people who showed us so much trust and care :')

Will I ever go back there?

Monday

Vocal cords have not been too well lately. Ever since I was down with the December flu. So hard to warm-up in the mornings and when I sing, I can't hold my notes. Although I am supposed to have recovered from the flu, I still cough in the morning due to post-nasal drip, have rhinitis and produce alot of sputum. (Pardon the gross details)...

Thankfully, last week's worship leading @ MBTS went OK. And after the past Sunday's stint, it's one more week of doing vocal back-up in Service 2... then I can rest my cords for a while. Hopefully they will get well soon.

Watched Inception yesterday - and I had no idea what was going on most of the time. LOL. Ben said that it is a very brilliant movie. As for me... I think that my mind is either too simple of tired to comprehend the concept.

Had Domino's Pizza with Ben last night to wrap up my eating weekend.

Saturday

Today...

1. Accompanied Ben to work this morning. Had a Sausage + Egg Mc-muffin for breakie. I did my emails, did some medical knowledge revision... and had a good QT.

2. Went to Balik Pulau with Yen Sun, Wai Lim + wife, WL's mum and all the kids... ate laksa. Ate pasembur...

3. Returned home for a short hour of exercise (and then I ate two dinners...*errrrrrp* )

4. Went for CG after dinner #1.

5. Went for supper (dinner #2) after CG. (I am now stuffed to the brim with roti telur and roti canai... Brides-to-be or dieters, sorry if you think I am a bad example :P ~ Saturday is my designated 'Day of Eats'. Plus the company was so worth the face-stuffing.

Thursday

When beauty is more than a dream
when peace holds the heart still
even when the light fails to shine,
fails the essence of life, hope - never will.

Spending time alone...

Yet another "resolution"

I have decided to spend some time each day revisiting baby Kumar and Clark. LOL. It's a pocket-sized (although too thick to fit into my pocket) book containing the essentials of clinical medicine. Thought since I am now approaching the third year since I graduated from med school, I'd better refresh my knowledge.I have been quite reluctant to do this for some time already... However, yesterday, when I picked up my pocket K&C, and those familiar words I have been ruminating on for quite some years back in med school greeted me... I felt a strange tug in my heart. And then I thought... "Perhaps the anointing is here... Better get into revision before I miss the 'moment'!" Hehe.

So there... I hope to cover the entire book in a year's time... latest.

Eve of New Year's Eve....

Despite my stuffed nose and nasal speech, I did not let my post-assignments-break go to waste. In fact, I just had the ball of a time today. Nellie (who was on a post-rotation leave) and I yakked away for about 3 hours +++ this afternoon! Over Taiwanese fast-food and pearl-milk tea.

Uh-huh. We were mostly discussing girlie-wurlie stuff (we screamed with laughter at the most random times too), so I shan't bore you with the details. But I must assure you, my dear readers - it was therapeutic!

Driving back home, I was listening to one of Michael Nyman's (an English composer of minimalist music) albums... trying to determine what is it exactly in his music that evokes different ranges of emotions in people. The tune was basically the same in most of the tracks on the album - but because it was played differently using different instruments, tempo, chord patterns or modulations - each song had a different feel to it - and made me imagine a great many different things.

It reminded me... how important it is to use tact in words when motivating a person to grow. Affirming one's strengths is more important than harshly putting down the person for his/her weaknesses. Ultimately, an encouraged person seeks ways to grow himself/herself...

Christmas Eve and Day....

Went to 1st Avenue for the first time...

Crossed over to Prangin Mall for dinner at our favorite Gourmet Coffee...

Fuiyohhh....look at those eyebags!!!! *EEEEEEEKS* My late nights paid off! :P

Christmas Eve Candlelight service at church on Friday night

Some of my gifts...

To church on Saturday morning for Christmas service...

Of air-bound dreams...

Had an awesome dream last night. Actually I had a few similar ones before - of myself dancing alone on a large carpet, like I used to as a gymnast. In my dreams, it is always perfectly clean lines, perfect execution of leaps, perfect landing, perfect posture, perfect technique... and the parts I like the most are when I leap and fly into the air. Coz I stay air-bound for at least 2 seconds and feel extremely light and FREE!!!But one funny thing about these dreams is: I am nearly always being watched by an audience... and yet, I never seem to have anything much on. It's comfy that way. I am never ashamed. Never condemned. The graceful expression of emotions in the dance - is beyond me. I could dance like that forever and ever. Every inch of my body is stretched and poised to create the most beautiful silhouettes that amaze even myself. Truly, I'd love to dance again. Perhaps not gymnastics or ballet. I did take modern jazz lessons when I was in college. I'd love to explore that again... Perhaps after I am married. I hardly have money to do things like that now! LOL.But...then again... If anyone can tell me why I dream such dreams, I'd be very grateful.

Random pics of the weekend

Ben and I attended the signing of ROM of our friends - Wei Chong and Bee Chin...at the Penang Chinese Assembly Hall...

The cute bridegroom and beautiful bride...

Pardon our pale faces... Ben was recovering from a bout of food poisoning and flu...had a stiff neck too.. As for me, I am not an early-morning person. I have great difficulties dragging myself out of bed in the mornings... and that morning was not an exception! :D

Had fun putting up the Christmas tree and its lights on Saturday night...

Went to Queensbay Mall on Sunday afternoon - for lunch and to shop for Christmas pressies... the traffic congestion was SOOOOOO crazy!!! But I am proud to say that Ben and I persevered... and after about half an hour, we got inside the building! Parked our car and headed to Queens Market to feed our growling tummies...

Tom yam fried rice

The redbean 'ham chim peng' we had at Queens Market before shopping for Christmas pressies...

At our CG Christmas dinner... (More pics of our dinner in another post)

Saturday's visit to the fish-shop...

Tried to capture the yellow fish three times... Pardon me if it seemed like I was posing... :P