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Post wedding entry

Hi everyone!

Thank you so much for coming for our wedding! We hope that u have enjoyed the wedding as much as we have, and your presence truly blessed the both of us! :)

We apologize for the delay in updating about our post wedding and you must be eager to ask us how is it like being married?? :) We just got back from our honeymoon at Phuket and Bangkok this morning... and if u have been following the news, yes, we were two of the many thousands stranded there... shall update more soon when we are feeling better... as of now, we are both just thankful that God sent us back safely via Thai airlines from the U-Taopao airport to KL last night.. and managed to take the earliest flight today to Singapore.. :)

We took some photos too of the jam there... but till then, we're settling back into our new rented place and informing our parents of our safety... pray for us as we go through the post-traumatic stress that we had to go through at thailand.

Loves!

reflections... 2 more weeks..

I kept tossing and turning on my own single sized bed, on top of a double deck bed (yes, I sleep on a double deck :p and I'm proud of this!) and kept thinking about the little things I would miss 2 weeks after today. I realized that this 2 weeks will be the last 2 weeks I get to sleep on this bed that I have been sleeping on for the past 17 years ever since we moved to AMK... feeling a little melancholic..

I thought about the things I will miss.. and I realized how much I really love home, even though there can be alot of quarrels and stresses at home sometimes, home is still a place that I am comfortable in...

I will miss coming home and seeing mom in her pajamas, lying on the sofa and watching tv, or smiling and laughing at the comedy that is on tv, I will miss being at home alone and not feeling weird at all, I will miss hearing my younger sister's laughter while she is watching some movies or youtube korean shows online on her laptop, I will miss hearing how younger sis will joke with mom and how during good moods we can tease and laugh with mom... I will miss this PC that I am typing on right now, how trusty it has been to me! :) I will miss my single double decker bed - for no more I will be sleeping alone after 2 weeks from now... I will miss having all my clothes washed for me, house cleaned and how I need not worry about home maintenance... how I will miss.. :)

The future can be scary sometimes when I do think about it, the fear of the unknown, yet filled with excitement. Things are bound to change, and there will be things i need to adjust.. I thank God for the things that He has lead me thus far, and even to allow this wedding to happen.

As I laid on the bed, I thought too of the things I am looking forth to and I am excited too :)
- walking down the aisle and saying the vows
- Seeing Johnson by my side when I wake up every morning
- Spending time with him buying groceries and walking around our new neighborhood
- walking through all the fears and uncertainties with him
- after the wedding, we can go on a holiday anytime we want :) without having the hassle to find a friend to be with us and be accountable to about being too close
- going home together
- having meals together
- resting in our honeymoon

Please pray for us as we count down to the days we become one :) there can be excitements and fears, but God reminded me that life will still be the same after marriage with a tinge of difference, it ain't going to be like how Cinderella and her prince charming :) but a more beautiful realistic one that God has a character play in it! Pray that we will love one another like how Christ loves us, and that our home will be a home that has the fruits of the Spirit :)

Flight School Asia is happening NOW!

Hi everyone!

Sorry for not updating for a long while.. I have been busy with the "EAST ASIA media training or aka Flight School Asia Media Training." which is currently happening at the YMCA at stevens road! It has been a truly e-x-c-i-t-i-n-g time! This is a major project to overseas staffs to teach them about the craft of making short-films, so that they can go back to their homelands to BEGIN this new ministry to their mainland people!

Thank God for the privilege of being able to witness for the past half a decade the extent of His power in the nations. The training is from 13 - 24 Oct!

I was given the privilege to teach one lesson and activity on Story in pictures. This lesson is the 1st lesson of the whole training where it will kick start the creative minds of our staff participants, and teach them on how to imagine, and use pictures and photographs to brainstorm new stories and outlines for films. It is truly a humbling experience as the participants are all older or more senior than me! On top of that, my team and I are not 100% skilled or trained unlike 1 or 2 participants who are there.. As such, we can only give them experience and knowledge from our experience..However, it has been the best experience ever to be able to be used by God to encourage, spur and provide handles for these overseas staff, as they begin their new Media Ministry in their homelands!

Here are some sneak shots of what I have been doing!

In the above photo, I was teaching the staffs how to tell stories through simple photos like this:
So how will u tell a simple story with all the photos above, that involves a character, emotions, a conflict and a location or scene with this mixed photo above? :)

Here, the staff are divided into many groups and taking turns to share the stories!
Here, the staff are cracking their brains in a 2nd activity to use all the photos I have given them to tell a exciting short film! :) so e-x-c-i-t-i-n-g!!!!

Quoting from one of my good friend and colleague who is attending and planning this training with me :) "It's an enormous task, but also a very satisfying one... Writing is no easy job. Good and captivating writing is even harder..." And I am more inspired now to write better scripts and making them into short films that can connect, and be used and impact the ministries for the non-Christians and even the Christians!!

As I sit in the class and listen to the lessons, and benefiting from the skills that my more skillful colleagues are teaching about lighting, film language and impact of films, I am more determined that Stories, or films have a great potential in our changing generation today. :) Its like, I will always remember the stories and life-sharing events that my friends share than the information they gave... or rather, what do you look at when you are on the bus? :p TV MOBILE! bingo. :p
Pixel cartoons speak more to me about identity than a teacher teaching me about identity. :p

Im not good at explaining what I just said, but see this and see if you'll still remember the film in the next few days :p I just love the talents that God has given to the film-makers to make films like these to impact the viewers about their identity in them :) During the few days in the training, the participants are taught to analyze the theme or lesson that is coming out from these films below.. they too take turns to learn how to break down the film scene by scene.. :)


Psalm 139:13-14
For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.


Luke 6:41-42
"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,' when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye."

Now you analyze this below! :)


Don't you just love the message that comes out of these films? :)
I lovvvve it! :)

Counting down...

Wells, Johnson and I have been busy furnishing our rented room, settling our wedding invites and banquet seatings, preparing for the upcoming Guo Da Li tradition and the food tasting... my mind has been moving as fast as the mrt and working to clear the tasks... :p Johnson was so surprised at my working style that he said, "you can keep thinking about what you have to do next hor?" I just smiled... I mean I cant help it.

And so, soon enough I fell sick twice and passed on the germs to Johnson.. and poor Johnson is now sneezing in rhythm with me and soon having phlegm like me... I really hope he won't have fever like I did 2 days ago..

Anyways, it has been an exciting yet challenging experience preparing for my wedding... In this period of time Johnson and I have been making decisions - both big and small, and it has been faith stretching as some involves money while others involved risking our parent's views n preferences...

Most of the time, I get discouraged easily when I bring home things to share the joy and ending up getting negative remarks... but I have to learn and not be too affected easily. Yet I rejoice too to know that God brought me friends and spiritual supporters to encourage me through emails and their presence, phonecalls or prayers when I need help or a listening ear. It hasn't been easy to learn and adjust to be like a "grown" woman, settling my own utilities, furniture bills, paying bigbig sums and making big BIG decisions, with a man who is growing and learning to be a "grown" man too... praying for God's grace to be upon us...

If u r reading this, please pray for our food tasting session on 30th Sept. Pray against jam when we are entering JB... and against attacks from the evil upon my family, pray that God will put peace and joy into each of our hearts and even the hearts of my non-believing family members :)

counting down!

You are Faithful

Lord of all the earth
how You care for me
You have made me
You will save and carry me always

You are faithful
You are faithful
You are faithful
Your joy is my strength

Lord you are my God
i rely on You
i put my hope in things not seen
Your promises all true
Always you’re with me
Your hand will lift me
My trust is in your hands
Always you’re with me
Your hand will lift me
My trust is in your hands

Residents gathered to save a cat trapped on higher grounds.

Yesterday, a fat cat which looked like the cat above climbed onto the platform outside of the wall of my HDB flat... you know, those platforms there are made that juts out of the wall of the HDB when you overlook out of your cooridor wall? yeah... and I stayed on 2nd floor by the way... the cat was sooo frightened and could not jump out or climb back into the building... and so it just kept whining, meowing loudly and other cats were responding loudly too - as if they were communicating and the cat was calling out for help...

I tried tying strings and lift a basket onto the platform and coax the cat to climb in while I lift the basket, but because of the weight of the cat and it was too afraid of shakyness, it climbed out the moment I tried to lift it, as it was shaking when I lifted the basket...

Then I was reminded that I had a ladder in my house! So I took the ladder and went downstairs my house, and tried climbing from below... but I didn't dare to climb up to get the cat as I was afraid that the cat would scratch me... and then a chinese man came by and offered to help...but he couldn't get the cat out as it was trying to scratch him too... I was lost at the moment.. and kept meowing back to the cat hopefully to comfort it and let it know that we are trying to "save" it and bring it to safe ground...

After a long period of time, I prayed and asked God to help. A young malay teenager came by and offered to help... this time he climbed up, stroked the cat a few times and meow at it, as if he was trying to communicate in it's language and telling it that it was ok for him to carry the cat... and daringly, though he was afraid that the cat would scratch him, he lifted the cat and stroke it while carrying him, and still stroking it as he tried climbing down the ladder. Praise God! the cat was brought to safety and it jumped up and down when we brought it down to the grass, and it meowed together with it's friends... :)

Then it triggered in my mind that we are just like the cat...in fact, many times God tries to bring us out of darkness into the safer grounds, but we are so afraid of the unseen, so afraid of the unknown BIG pair of hands, that we do not allow God to bring us out or rather we do not obey or trust Him to follow... Yet many times, God has to keep "stroking" us in assurance and love, to talk to us in our language and still we are fearful or stubborn to listen... just like how the Malay boy had to stroke the cat and carry it with his bare hands, even when the cat (us) may retaliate and scratch/hurt him... because He wants the best for us.

What a way God would speak in a time like this...
God is a loving father, a loving pair of BIG BIG hands.