Saturday 23rd July 2005
That day my legs ache like crazy..:P

Woke up like with a start…think that I am too used to wake up early in the morning…burst all my dreams of sleeping in late..Dad was up reading his favourite newspapers in the morning. Its been a long time since I spent time together early in the morning liao…Urged my parents and sis all to change to get ready…J We drove to Changi Village, one of our favourite hangouts when all of us were younger..can recall the countless of times when we would spend the many weekends there fishing and staying in the chalet..boy we really had a fun childhood.

We went to the very nice HK tim sum stall at the coffee shop just beside the newly renovated hotel there J had a craving for “Peh-dan Chuk” (Century-Egg Porridge) ever since the Hong Kong trip in June. Sad though, they din have “Chuk” on Saturdays…The Tim sum is superb! Very fresh and cheap! You all should try it there too…J Was very mel as I thought of this being the really first meal that I treated my parents properly from my first pay..:) Really wanna honour them also for standing by me all these years of study..it was really tough and its finally over…J we then took a walk around the market place..heheh we are so familiar with all the shops!

The Salvation Army store, the bike shop where we got all our bikes… the fishing equipment shops..all the shops sort of grew up with us….hahah picked up a handmade “sequins” bag for my lunch bag ( some of you can recall what my sis would say right “SEEEE QUINSSS”) yesh I love them!! what we really love the place is for the quietness and the beautiful cats! There were so many of them and yeah they were beautiful and all over the place!!

Then my dad dropped me off at Hougang Primary School where I was helping out Tian Long in his school’s fund raising event as being one of the buskers…heheh well…the kids simply loved him! He is a Chinese Teacher there..and there we were, busking in a very small place..helped him sing a few songs and played on the violin…the all time favourite song among the kids is definitely “Lao2 Shu3 Ai4 Da4 Mi3” by Guo Mei Mei! You will be surprised..even some very young kids like 4 our 5 year old..grabbed the mikes and sang as TianLong strummed on the guitar…

The adults loved them! They were so good, they know the lyrics and some even know how to sing the way the singer did in the track! WOW! I am impressed!! Then the kids could not stop crowding around us to buy their goods and handicrafts..another sweet girl suddenly reached out to me when I was singing and passed me a handmade wire flower which I proudly tied to my Violin case now heeh..

Was really touched to be in the school environment again…really loved kids…hahah did a country piece together with a little boy about Primary 3 on the Keyboard…Wilson if you are reading this…-GET YOUR KEYBOARD NOW!!! Hahah …won the heart of this cute Indian boy who came up to me and kept praising me and he donated the one dollar he had into our donation tin! I was really touched!!
That was not the end…scooted off just after one plus..had to meet Mingzhu…decided to stash my violin at home cos already agreed to meet up for youth service to take pictures..little did I know, my violin teacher messaged me to ask me to have lessons on Sat! wah…

There I go again like a Christmas tree with lots of things hanging from my shoulders ie. My bag, “Anthony”, my graduation gown, camera…

Trudged to church with Mingzhu and had a really impactful time! Alan Tea preached about “What real faith is?”
We learnt about Saving faith (Ephesians 2:8-9) and Living faith (James 2:17). We draw the differences between the two verses although, they seemingly contradict one another but it really highlights how we are saved and how we need to live out our faith. Faith without deeds is dead but that does not mean that we need to work out our salvation by good deeds, Salvation is by Grace alone. How can we measure how much literally we want to be saved?
We used to make a joke when we were in student ministry…”Do you want one foot, or two hands to be saved? Or make that “the whole head!” as determined by the amount of things that we do for God.

No, remembering again the verse is that our good deeds are like “filthy rags” in Isaiah, there’s no way we can meet God’s standard of goodness because He being our Lord Almighty is Holy, but because He loves us and His grace is unabounding, we are where we are now. J

Alan Tea shared with such conviction and was really clear and concise, my heart was moved! It feels great to be in the youth service cos the music is really uplifting J Christian ROCK MUSIC!

I responded to the call for taking charge of my thoughts and trusting in God and also increasing in my faith by acting it out. J Felt a total refreshing of heart!

Soo Mi came! Yippee! She is a really impactful lady who has a big heart for missions. What really moved me is that her friends have already settled down in the church nearby to their hostel but yet she has been coming faithfully every week to Sat service. She cites that Alan Tea preaches very clear and concise and also she was impacted by it.

She even told me that she wants to settle down in the Saturday service! J Praise God!
Her engineer hubby is coming next week to see her…wah and she might have a chance to settle in Singapore for good should her husband be posted in the Singapore arm of his Korean company. Pretty excited now. J Another testimony of how God opens doors if you honour Him and wants to do His work! J ( See testimony of job finding).

Rushed off to violin lesson, reached home at 11 plus…tired + hungry + aching all over…Am I getting old? :P