just packed my room (even the postcards are taken down, it looks so bare) and I found the Nokia un-smart phone that I had been using close to 4 years chucked in my drawer. out of curiosity, I decided to charge it and read those texts that I painstakingly saved throughout JC, to my first 2 years of uni. once in a while it feels good to revisit those ( Read more... )

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my best friend (solely in my opinion hehe) turned 22 yesterday. this is the third consecutive year i've not actually celebrated it, and often i easily forget how important she is to me ( Read more... )

this remains my favourite picture of all.. =) (sorry valtan7 i took a photo of you without permission hehe)


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everyone wrote really, really lovely words and I am incredibly touched. but for me the wisest words have come from my mum, who wrote hers in beautifully messy Chinese characters: (I showed Vic and he took a picture of it and said it could be preached on!! hahah ( Read more... )

Scaffolding [Seamus Heaney]

Masons, when they start upon a building,
Are careful to test out the scaffolding;

Make sure that planks won’t slip at busy points,
Secure all ladders, tighten bolted joints.

And yet all this comes down when the job’s done
Showing off walls of sure and solid stone.

So if, my dear, there sometimes seem to be
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i used to think that homesickness is something like.. chicken pox. once you've got it, conquered it, you automatically get immune to it. or maybe you're one of the really unlucky/rare few that get it twice. but you don't get it multiple times.

so after being abroad for more than half my uni education now you'd think that homesickness isn't really ( Read more... )

i just got back from a farewell party of one of my cellmates, Ruth, who will be leaving in four weeks' time to be a missionary in India. i knew Ruth since we worked together in the International Ministry in 2009/2010, and we often walked home from cell together since we lived near each other. through that, i got to know one of the gentlest and most ( Read more... )

And even if we sink, even if the ground beneath us gives way, we learn. We can survive and build again. And we will know how to walk better, to build better, the next time.

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minus the not-so-occasional pessimism about myself and bouts of insecurities/no-confidence, i think i've grown - if this definition of growth is anything to go by.

this passage ( Read more... )