I am emBRACING  a new change in my life - braces. Haha get the pun? Lol I love wordplay. Anyway! I finally got down to getting my braces (after thinking about it for the past year plus or so). Just got the mold taken yesterday and I'm taking my xrays once I return from London/Paris. 6 June shall be my extraction date (4 teeth plus one wisdom tooth. Ouch.) and 12 June shall be my braces date. Excited! I hope I can eat by the time I leave for Hong Kong on 22 June though.

Packing for London is a pending disaster because I'm not used to going to places with temperature of 10 degree celsius and I'm also not used to packing for 14 days. It's going to be a much awaited picturesque holiday though! Picturesque because the scenery there is just about perfect for a photo shoot and I'm bringing along my Nikon D5100!! <3

I finished watching Dream High 2, and it makes me feel that my dream of doing music can come true. It can, and it will. There are so many avenues nowadays.

`signing off
-lynn





I just wanted to really thank God for healing me physically. I had this pounding headache for more than a week before my exams. It went on during the last week of school, into the recess week as I was studying. Family said that it probably was due to stress. I checked online and found that it was probably migraine. Well I wasn't so sure, because the intensity varied through the week plus. But I prayed. And trusted God. I was completely prepared to go through exams with that pounding headache and just hoped that it wouldn't affect me that much. On last Wednesday, I prayed and asked God to take away this headache before my first paper that just occurred last Saturday. He didn't cure me on Wednesday. On Thursday, however, I happened to realize that the pounding stopped. I was surprised. It left as suddenly as it came! Being the ever skeptical me, I decided to continue to monitor it on Friday, in case it came back like it did during the week. Nothing, zilch. I completely forgot about it till after my first two papers on Saturday. Then I realized, God really does answer prayers. All we need to do is wait on Him, just like what the message this morning said.

Second thing to thank God for. My right elbow suffers from Bursitis, a condition triggered by dislocating my elbow twice, which a doctor in the past told me was not curable and I basically just gotta live with it. I have, actually, for easily 15+ years? Anyway, it gets inflammed and hurts terribly when I put extra pressure on it. Normally, it happens when I sleep on it for the whole night or carry something heavy. I recently (in uni) found out, however, that it can also be triggered by writing essays for 2 hours continuously. Well, it happened again on Saturday, after my political science exam, where I left 20 minutes early. I had another more important life science exam in 2 hours and my elbow hurt more than usual. By experience, the pain usually lasts for hours. It was tough to even carry my tray of food. Ken Wei prayed with me during lunch and I just continued eating. Amazingly, by the time I finished my food, it stopped hurting completely. I went for my second exam and wrote  for 2 hours without re-triggering any pain. So really, I would just like to thank God for seeing me through my first two papers on Saturday and I'll continue to trust Him throughout my exams!

All glory be to God! (:




First paper of Year 3 Sem 2's exam is tmr, or should I say first 2 to be exact. Haha I've never worked so hard for an exam in such a short time before, so I hope it pays off!

I recently started on a new addiction - finding covers of songs on youtube. It's a horrible addiction because I've uncovered a whole list of pretty good singers and I started to listen to their originals. It makes me think of venturing into this exciting field of music.

I feel that I have this whole lot of POTENTIAL and TALENT that God has given me, and I am really not using it or exploring it enough. I feel that I can actually do a lot more than what I'm doing now, but it's always the lack of time, lack of equipment, lack of this and that. I shall promise myself, that after I graduate, one day, I will try my hand at music.

(: What would life be like without music? I cannot imagine.

`signing off
-lynn




I need to get something out of my system. Haha it seems to be interfering with my review paper writing, so I'm here, to write stuff that I can actually think about.

2 days ago, I finished watching this 35 episode show called <<步步惊心>>, or Startling by each step, or Scarlet Heart. Anyway, whatever it is, the ending hit me a lot. First, I've never actually watched a drama with an unhappy ending. Second, when you've watched 35 episodes of something, you kind of develop this relationship with it and it's not that easy to let go, especially when the ending made you cry before sleeping.

I cannot stand it!! Urgh. The director could have made it in such a way that he came over and said "Hi, do I know you?" and then introduce himself or something! And that would hint that they could have gotten to know each other again in the 21st century era. But no, the director/scriptwriter had to make him WALK AWAY, LEAVING HER IN TEARS. Tell me, how is that an ending?! It left me feeling sad, incomplete and my heart in pieces ): Heart wrenching much???? ><

为何不给他们一个好结局？在前世已经受够了痛苦，不妨留着一丝的希望。。。若曦根本不知道她的四爷仍然还是爱着她呢。导演太残忍了！我真的不服气 ):

Okay that's all for my ranting about the show. I'll still be mulling over it till I find another one.

`signing off
-lynn




When I think about how long I've known each of my close friends in church, it really feels that we've grown older. For some, we grew up together, although along the way we may have drifted apart and then back closer. For some, we have acquired each other along the way, knowing of each other's existence before hand but never really talking till something sparked it off. Either way, it's been a long journey together and I really thank God for each one of them. It was nice spending time with them again, something we really haven't been able to do much once everyone got busy with different things.

Friends play an important role in my life, and like the song that's always part of my blog template, I hope we'll grow old together hand in hand!

`signing off
-lynn




Twenty-twelve. 2012. However you say it.
It's gonna be an interesting year, what with turning 22 (soon enough, at the end of the year) and being 21 for now. Even more interestingly, there are the speculations on the end of the world. Will the world end? No one knows. But why bother? Live each day as if it's your last! That's what matters!

In any case, school is starting again tmr. (Oh ho, or maybe not so for me because my Mondays are FREE. Ahaha, so sue me.) Alright, so I'll quit being bimbotic for awhile. I'm glad for the changes happening in YZ. BS on Sundays, no longer exactly part of the core but just mentoring my new understudy. It frees up a lot of my time, for one. Secondly, it allows me to take a slight breather without really taking a breather (because I'm still serving, except that the workload lessened). And, hence, I became a worship leader for YAM. It's probably time I think of transiting myself from serving in YZ to YAM. I can't stay a youth forever, can I? Haha. My heart is still with YZ though, so I'll still stick around for a couple of years more after my girls graduate.

Sharon said something that I thought was really true! When God calls you, you can't run away. Indeed. While being a DGL was not really much of a consideration for me, because I had already prepared myself when Daryl asked me in 2007. I was really excited, although I wasn't exactly sure how to do it. Reflecting on how I feel about being a DGL now, I'm still equally excited and I really truly enjoy it. Call it a teacher's heart (: And then I realised that I suppose being a DGL could really be a gift of mine! Looking at all the batches that graduated from YZ, I really cannot pinpoint many who have seen their groups through all 6 years. I would be the second female DGL? I was thinking about it too. I would like to come back and mentor another DGL for perhaps a year or two. Like the double DGL groups with Cara and Michelle, Cyrus and Linus, and now Vera and Joey. I enjoy all the DGL fellowships anyway. Serving alongside the people whom you've known for ages is really heartening.

On a sadder note, Deb is leaving. I'll miss our star-gazing chitchats in camps, our talks about what's going on in life, serving together (first in flute, then in yz), someone familiar to go with when I'm in a sea of people I'm not so close to and don't feel like opening up for that moment, someone to support me when I'm down. We've been busy lately I think, or at least I have. But friends will still be friends. Nothing can change that! (:

I think I've typed enough for now. So long! I'm probably feeling a bit more reflective cos I just watched A Little Bit Of Heaven.

`signing off
-lynn




YZ Camp is tmr, and as usual, I have mixed feelings. On one hand, I'm really looking forward to a few days off my dramas so I don't keep going crazy over them and also spend some time with church people. On the other hand, I'm really NOT looking forward to sleeping on classroom floors and bathing in crammed up cubicles and being dirty. I haven't gone for a camp in a really long time >< and I feel absolutely old. Hanging out with kids who are only 12, playing games and running about. Even though I'm not the kind who makes kids feel uncomfortable when they're talking to me cos I'm much older, it's still so gross to think of the age difference I have with them!!

Anyway, time to enjoy my last night before hard rock floor sleeping..

`signing off
-lynn