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Cucumber Story

2011-12-21T20:51:00.002+08:00

So it's about two months to the wedding, and our days have been filled with visits to the tailor, poking about in our google documents, Dave's interviews, shopping for Christmas, watching HBO and eating crisps, and reading on the book of Esther.We've been doing a lot - plenty of do, do, do. And on days of plenty of doing, I get a little bit meh. I find myself getting easily meh over things of

And Again

2011-12-10T02:50:00.002+08:00

And so, that time of the year arrives. I turned 26 yesterday. Mum made fried rice and roast chicken and we had a pretty awesome meal.As you get older, it gets more unremarkable - I repeat this to myself again, as I did last year (well, it's not completely true - Dave celebrates it with me, and for the first time in the same time zone, so that makes it pretty remarkable). I tell myself to not

Making a Comeback of Sorts

2011-10-29T01:46:00.003+08:00

Hello.It has been a long time since. So much has happened, yet looking at this space, you'd think my life has been empty and dull. But many things have happened. Too many.There's a correlation between emotions and frequency of posts. I used to write out of sadness and hurt - a way to organise the mess, to filter thoughts in the head. Now I just don't write anymore. Some have remarked that I

Steamed Egg Cake

2011-08-21T01:42:00.001+08:00

It's been awhile. Let's just say ice cream has taken over my life and I come home smelling like dairy and caked with custard. Perth is coming up soon and I'm not even sure if I have enough clean clothes. After that will be Eid (this season always brings me back to the amazing soto ayam at F's last year, with the bloated begedil at the bottom of the bowl) and then I'll find myself in London again,

A Year Later

2011-07-17T23:50:00.004+08:00

It's amazing how much can take place in a year. Last year in July I went for an OM missions trip and things were never the same again. In more ways than one. The decision to plunge into uncertainty, and having met people who now are an important part of my life, and surrendering thing into His hands. A year later, things are very different from what I had worked it out to be/daydreamed about.

!!!

2011-07-05T02:32:00.003+08:00

Photo taken by Rach, the night Dave popped the big question and I said yes. Besides the important details of how it took place, I will forever remember the squeals and screams the girls made after they found out :)

An Urgent Kind of Urgency

2011-06-23T21:13:00.006+08:00

Look here, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there and make a profit.” How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone. What you ought to say is, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that.” Otherwise you are boasting about

Revisiting That Day in May

2011-06-19T22:03:00.003+08:00

Flipping through the pages of my old blog, I found this! And a corresponding post! May 17, 2007, you were quite a day. I can still remember how big and pink the cow tongue at the Dato Keramat pasar was, and rolling the dice at the entrance of the LRT station and wishing we hadn't rolled a 10 (but later realising it was pretty neat that we did).

Better Apart

2011-06-11T14:08:00.002+08:00

Let's just say a lot of things confound me. For example, how unicorns slide on rainbows, or how thoughts about eating Korean noodles stay constantly on my mind. Or fathers calling daughters 'princesses' or mothers comforting and consoling children.Last week I saw the closeness of a mother with her daughters - how easy they were with each other and how accommodating the mother is, and I thought,

2011-06-05T00:04:00.000+08:00

Happy birthday!

A Grace Awakening

2011-06-01T21:48:00.007+08:00

Today's page reads:“Behold, O My people, I will open your graves...” (Ezekiel 37:12). When God wants to show you what human nature is like separated from Himself, He shows it to you in yourself. If the Spirit of God has ever given you a vision of what you are apart from the grace of God (and He will only do this when His Spirit is at work in you), then you know that in reality there is no

Twelve Weeks

2011-05-29T18:36:00.003+08:00

Hello Monday. You've been slow - partly because of the stifling heat, and a smidgen because I broke a fluorescent light tube last night, but mostly because of my unenthusiastic attempt to reel away from activity.Classes at the seminary ended on Friday (with a nifty graduation service and friends and family who came to join in the festivities) but the weekend went on, industrious and in full speed

Posting a Piece of Ourselves Over

2011-05-07T23:46:00.003+08:00

One of the lecturers made a joke and replaced the word 'seminary' with 'cemetery'. The person in front of me immediately replied, without missing a beat - "It's where our old selves come to die".True story.Getting packages in the postbox is one of my favourite things in life. Dave sends the best packages (and not just because no one else really sends me any :)) and this time there's a stack of

!!!11!!1!1!!

2011-05-06T06:42:00.002+08:00

This almost reminds me of the time I used to crank up the radio on the drive to work, blasting fluff and trite chart-toppers and singing along to psyche me up for the day - it was a strange kind of desperation.And now every time I hear this and this, it's almost like I can smell the air of a year and a half ago.And today I am reminded of how I used to sit in the car and pray in the staff car park

2011-05-01T23:42:00.002+08:00

Epiphanies and an Old Laptop

2011-04-15T19:44:00.007+08:00