Give us a heart of compassion, with a world without vision. We will make a difference, giving hope to our land.

the swing outside his house!

Ian & I have been buying hot coffee in the college everyday during break time, & he claimed that he's not a coffee addict. Haha well. I am anyway! Today's news reported that 6 cups of coffee per day will reduce the possibility of getting cancer. Hooray for caffeine! (:

Woke up at 8am on Saturday! I know it's quite abnormal of me. Haha. Met Ryan J, Yvonne, Ruijing & Yan Lin for study at Ryan's house. Some property at Serangoon Gardens. Anyway, we all live either in Hougang or Serangoon, so that explains the meetup. Niceeee house! Full of antiques. Left at 3pm for church. Ben was back, & Andrew came today! Thank God that lost sheeps are coming back. (: Dinner with Ryan J. at Chomp Chomp.

Today's sermon was about relating to our parents & siblings, honouring them instead of always "honouring" ourselves. I'm fortunate. Mum & Sis hold stable jobs, that's the case when you work for the government; when economic recession wouldn't have much impact on you. Dad's one would really have to depend on the economy. Communication was never a problem since young, we'd update one another what happened everyday in our lives. & every Sunday's officially the family day. Talking about freedom, my parents are really gracious about that. 'Cause my mum told me before, she wasn't given a lot of freedom when she was young. So she understood how it felt when parents don't allow her to stay out late. I think what Joshua said about having a sense of accountability spoke to me a lot. Not that I don't have any, but I always take it for granted. This can be really bad if it becomes a habit.

Then I mentioned that one of the many things that my parents did right was being punctual. I find people (including me in the past) always giving excuses when they're late, & they never blame it on themselves. The truth is that, they never made the effort to prepare early & get out of the house. I've my parents as role models to learn from, it's alright to reach half an hour earlier, or even one hour. Just, don't be late.

If you've read the newspaper recently, the turnout for the recent Job Fair was really overwhelming. IR has set aside 10, 000 job vacancies for next year, out of which 300 vacancies were catered to the Job Fair which ended today. 1000 people actually signed up for it! I foresee the disappointment of the remaning 700 people who get rejected. Indeed, recession's currently affecting so many people right now, even those living in landed property & all. One actually suggested that the government should provide a small sum of money to those who are jobless and also the sole breadwinner of the family. Sounds good eh, but how? That's another round of problem & consideration. May the recession end soon.

It's been raining a lot these days.

to Vaneh: Haha, of course I'll use it! Yeah, sure. Enlighten yourself SOON! :D
to Samantha: HAHA. That'll be too big a group. But don't worry lah, we can meet up anytime. March holiday's approaching! *I see happy faces* (: