ai blog: January 2009

It's the holidays!
Plans for this 3-week long free time would be to explore the central region of the country, go home to JB, and come back again to Melaka and Muar for CNY! =D
The last semester was the most tiring of all - totally deprived of sleep. I really should use this holidays to recuperate and recharge again!
I just realized that I have not done reflections of 2008, peer pressured by the other bloggers..haha.. maybe i'll just pen down some thoughts about Year 2008 now :)

Last year was truly an eventful year for me. Had opportunities to do a lot of things as well as to experience certain changes in my life.
Physically, i think i have not really changed much..haha..tried to work out more and i did pretty well early last year..but towards the end of the year, with so many things up, i lost the consistency...and yeah, pretty much just fell back to square one..haha.. On the brighter side, i didn't gain weight lah...haha..thank God also that i did not fall seriously ill last year..as far as i can rmbr......yay! :)
Academically, it is really by God's grace that i'm still surviving right now...haha...really praying hard that i'll be able to maintain my grades and God willing, do better! left with just 16months of studies :) I thank God for very wonderful coursemates who are always watching my back and just being there each and every semester to work our brains off together for assignments, exams, and of coz, entertaining each other in class..u know who u are, babes! :D
Emotionally, year 2008 was a year with a lot of tears..hahaha...so emo rite...terrible, Grace... but yeah, i think i've never cried so much in a year before...haha.. but as of now, i know i'm stronger after all the emotional stress that i went through and i know my greatest Consoler was none other than God, in His own perfect way :) but of course, with all the tears and sorrows, i did have my fair share of pure joy with marathon-ish laughter..haha...I wanna thank all those who've made me laugh, who was nice to me and who made my day :) It is my sincere hope that I'll be able to make you laugh, to love you and to make your day too! *grins
Spiritually, i'm grateful that i'm still walking with God. Throughout last year, God was faithful as He has always been and still is right now. Many events have opened my eyes to see how big God is over and over again and how He is always reaching out to sinners like me who is clearly unworthy of all He has to offer. I thank God for allowing me to serve Him in many ways throughout the year and for helping me to accomplish all that He wanted me to do :)
For my family, i thank God for completeness, love, health, provision and peace throughout the year. My parents have always been my strongest pillar of support, loving me and allowing me to pursue many things that i want to. I want to thank God that my parents have been very supportive of all the activities that i was involved throughout last year, which really really encouraged me to do well :) And for my brothers, my best friends whom i can never thank God enough for...truly, no one can understand me better than them. To Kor and Soly, thank you for putting up with all my nonsense and still loving me no matter how impossible i am :)
To all my friends, my life wouldn't be so lively and fulfilling w/o each and everyone of u..and i thank you all for being my friend throughout Year 2008 and i hope i'll be a better friend to all of you this year :) Thank God also for new friendships made last year, and praying for more to come! :) Really am looking forward to what Year 2009 has in store for me...even with all the forecasts of a bad year ahead, i'm going to stay positive and to see the greater good in everything that comes my way. Year 2009, i'm ready for u!

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here are some pics of the recent CF Committee Retreat at El Sanctuary, Lendu!

cool bridge..
"Honour Thy King,
Believe in God."
(click pic for larger view)

it's on a hill..so, we had to climb quite abit...

more climbing.... haha

very comfy chalet :)

really good food too! :)

we thank God that we were able to complete our 3rd sem planning on time :)

thus, we had time for some fun...

After realizing that we were all actually conned by
Infamous Andrew of a non-existence waterfall,
we headed for the Hot Spring...
...but we found that it was too hot to enjoy it at that time of the day.haha