countdown this year was quite low-key, but still, spending time with lovely funny people like debbiecharlotteclaudia really made me enjoy myself(:
not to mention the rest of the youths...when every body learnt how bad eunice's maths has become by playing 'catch the mouse ah'(: seriously, why can't we use CALCULATORS! so much more efficient:/
anyway, 2008 is over, and i'm really thankful for the way GOD has worked in my life. Therefore, it is imperative that i count my blessings and name them one by one!
1. For allowing my parents to give me my FIRST phone line:D
2. For letting me get into NJ for pae
3. For letting me STAY in NJ permanently even though 5 points was a risky kind of business.
4. For giving me my O level results, however badly i think i did, i know the results came from HIM, and thus, i should still praise him!
5. For giving me a WONDERFUL CLASS IN 08S17. it's amazing how in a school bursting with muggers, my class seems to be the ONE AND ONLY non-mugger class...not withstanding the fact that we may be at the bottom for half our subjects......but, seriously, there could never be another class that i want to be in!
6. For giving me a wonderful friend called yunjie(: who has helped calm my hyperactivity down somewhat...hahaha
7. For allowing me to go to ITALY with NJ choir this year.to say that it was a fun and fufilling trip would be the understatement of the year
8. For allowing me to get into NJCHOIR in the first place, even after i kinda talked nonsense for my interview with ms lim! she asked me: "so, is NJchoir your first choice CCA". and the brilliant and brave eunice replied "NO.....but if i get in, i wouldn't consider other CCAs". Sonia about killed me for my answer, but...thank God it all worked out!
9. For giving me ALLICIA as my wonderful room partner! i don't think i would have enjoyed myself as much if we weren't! i think she kinda tamed my wild and active imagination toooo(:
10. For providing me with the best bunch of friends a girl could ever have in Fruit Basket. truly we have stuck together through thick and thin, even when some people were not exactly pleased with our 'exclusiveness'.... laughter and watermelons definitely have done their part in holding us together, but i'd like to think it was GOd who gave us the strength to carry on(:
11.Thank God for my not-so-great CT results, which kinda poked me a bit out of slacky state(:
12. Thank God for the china trip, where i truly experienced the joy of worshipping , in a country where certain restrictions may be in place. i'm not at liberty i think to discuss further about this cos of the situation, but God definitely touched my life there, big time!
13. Thank God for the opportunity to serve in the children camp where i learnt that HE is sufficient and he is all that i need.
14. Thank God for giving me a wonderful chem teacher! who rescued me from a TERRIBLE STATE OF BLURNESS!
15. Thank God for seeing me through taking care of the CAAL programme...i think the admin work that i did for CAAL is something i could NEVER have done in ten thousand years had it not been for God who guided me. and even then, my own lazy procrastinative self showed through(:
16. Thank God for placing sylvia and alvin in my lives as leaders and mentors of the p5p6 ministry people.they are people God has been using to show me the way to live my life!
17. Thank God for giving me patience as a handle my bunch of rowdy and hyper p5 girls. i highly doubt i'd be able to be so nice to them if God wasn't always reminding me to love and cherish them! i have this one chance to impact their lives and i will make full use of it!
18. Thank God for untip kel diana who have been great mentors to me this year. i thank God everyday for these people who have invested so much time and energy in me and are committed to see me grow!
19. Thank God for jun and debbie, my church buddies! we believe that God is at work in our friendship and this friendship has strengthen and built me(:
20. Thank God for sparkers! For working through them to show me love.
21. Thank God for touching me during church camp, and for showing me how it is as individuals that we build the church up.thank you God for restoring to me that joy of knowing you and pressing on me the need to reach out to my non-believing friends, who i really really do not want to see on the other side of heaven when eternity begins.
22.Thank God for my church camp roommates who are my best buddies in church; debbie charlotte claudia(:
23. Thank God for answering prayer so that wenxin can go to church camp and we wouldn't have to resort to the extreme measures we almost wanted to!
24. Thank God for blessing me with a happy family! for parents who believe strongly in what they are doing and doing what they believe is in my best interests. even though i'm not exactly the most appreciative person of their sometimes strange opinions, i thank God for sheltering me with this canopy of love. yes dad, STRANGE. i know you're reading over my shoulder. if you wanted to be more inconspicuous, you don't have to correct all my grammer and vocab!!!
25. for my 2 sisters for filling the world as i know it with more interesting things than if i were an only child. however annoying and disturbing they may be, the house would be entirely different without their noise, laughter and sulks(: you guys are LoVeD(:
26. Thank God a million times for my godparents(: There are no 2 people more dear to me in the world( apart from my own biological parents) and i am really grateful to God for providing them for me! They have included me and my sisters in almost every one of their family outings and are a great blessing to me, helping my parents take care of us and treating the 3 of us like one of their own! They are a set of role models for me, with their hearts big enough to envelope 3 more daughters(:
27. Thank God for shana and joel my god sibs(:they have really made my world colourful beyond description with their antics and enthusiasm for life!
28. Thank God for 2008... i wanted to have 2008 thanksgiving items, but my mum suggested, or rather HINTED that people wouldn't want to read so many words of mine. Hence, i'm stopping at 28. it's just missing 2 zeroes in the centre!
:::::My goals for 2009:::::
-to be found faithful in little, so that God will give me much to be faithful
-to pass my piano g8 exam with flying colours
-to do better and better in my exams, peaking at A's and not at prelims:P
-to build strong friendships that can weather storms
-to give the p5, now p6 girls more of my time and focus
-to only blog once in 2 weeks MAX! so that i won't be so distracted
-to SAVE money so that next year end dec will not find me as broke as this year end did
2009, here i come!
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