Salvation

Today after morning shift, my parents and I made our usual annual visit to the graveyard to visit all my grandparents!! I meant their graves. Hahaha. It's funny how I would imagine them as my patients, talking, laughing, physically supporting them when I think of them! Anyway that explains why I love my > 65 years old patients!

While grave hopping, I started to ask my parents how did they accept Christ and received salvation. You know... Living as a tradtional chinese their whole life... They could just say the sinner's prayer the last few months of their life! It was through my parent's testimony and the love of God. It's really amazing.

A few months ago, one of my patients received Christ in her last days. Her niece brought her pastor along, and she prayed the sinner's prayer. I wasn't involved in it but I secretly heard what was conversed. The moment that prayer was made, I felt peace in my heart. And that joy... I can't describe that joy but it's prolly inner joy? I felt heaven rejoicing too.

I hope one day I will have the chance to lead some of my patients to Christ, like how my parents did to my grandparents. And all I gotta do is to serve and love them from the bottom of my heart. May Jesus be reflected in the things I do :)

Gonna have a song presentation during communion time in service tomorrow! I hope I can bring out the essence of the song and may the people be touched by the beauty of God's love.

Tentative Plans...

Start theory and voice lessons in April/May 2013.

Sign up for theory exam in September 2013

Sign up for grade 8 practical singing exam in Feb 2014.

Take grade 5 theory exam in March 2014.

Take grade 8 practical singing exam in September 2014.

With all these, I can't study overseas :O

God guide me please. Give me a direction. Which should I pursue first?

KL Trip with my Poly Mates :)

So we had this random trip to KL and yes, it was a good break for me! But too short!!!! Sigh. Now, I'm looking forward to my Taiwan trip in May!!! YAY! Ok, photos!!!!

All pumped up and excited!~ At Changi Airport. When I'm there, I always tell myself that there's no place like home :)

When we arrived at KLIA we were deciding train, bus or taxi and decided on bus. I like last minute decisions! Wahahaha.

Group photo 1!!

Settled down and placed our luggage in the hotel and went out to explore Times Square!! :D

We settled at Bar B Q Plaza for dinner and it was awesome!!! The dishes displayed below costs 52.90RM!!!!

Yum yum yum yum!!

Did a bit of window shopping before going back to the hotel!!! Our "fresh from the shower+specky" look!

Ahhh! We had 2 king sized beds! But pq preferred to squeeze in. But too bad she didn't in the end. I thought I could have a king sized bed all to myself with the air-con blasting.

My breakfast the next day :)

Group photo 2!!

It was Ling Li's birthday btw! Sigh, too bad we didn't have the typical birthday cake with candle photo :/ Taking the monorail to KLCC!

The super duper tall twin towers!

 Yay! With the birthday girl!

I freaked out when I saw Sephora! I bought an NYX item and used my card to collect points!(my card can be used in sg & msia) That was when something happened! The whole NYX eye shadow shelf collapsed and fell and hit pq's nose! Didn't take a photo because I wasn't in Singapore. Hah! So, what an experience!!

 Went to pamper ourselves with pedicure done by Burmese! I'm in heaven~~

Aunty Ling Li removing her gelish.

We went to Chinatown at 12 midnight and everything was closed!!!! But luckily they managed to buy some stuff before some of the shops pack up.

Our late cake-eating ceremony the last day. Hehehe.

Nothing is better than eating in bed. Ahhhh.

Enjoyed the trip generally :) It's nice just to roam around the city area. I think I have not really experienced it before BKK and KL cos all my holidays were all on sight-seeing. Anyhow, it was fun with the girls tooooo!!

AM I DREAMING?

Ok, I kinda just woke up from my nap(night shift tonight) and was doing my routine email check for my results. Yes. I JUST RECEIVED IT!

I GOT A FREAKING DISTINCTION!!! 137/150.

I was trembling while logging into the ABRSM website. And the moment I saw it, I started to ask myself if I was dreaming. APPEARENTLY I'M NOT! LALALALLALALA! I seriously wanna thank God!! I TOTALLY DID NOT EXPECT A DISTINCTION. No one ever said that I will get a distinction(except pastor Angela who doesn't do music and has never heard me before). I don't know man. I knew the mistakes I made during the exam. But still a distinction? It's really amazing!

I hope they won't send another email saying that it is another person's results. Hehehe. You know... All my life. I never got a distinction in anything. Ds have lah. But no distinction. Wow. 

Ok, now I just gotta wait for the transcript :) Can't wait to see the examinar's thoughts.

I know I know why! Actually I sang like crap during my sight singing. And I could see the examinar shaking her head!!! Maybe she was thinking, "Urgh, your sight singing sucks... But your pieces are ok. Should I give a distinction or not?!". She was prolly in a dilemma.

Hehhee. ANYHOW, I GOT A DISTINCTION AND PRAISE THE LORD FOR THAT!!!!!

Muack!

Nicole's 8th Birthday

I just wanted to have dinner with them and it happened to be Nic's birthday!!! Yay!

I was just so tempted to trick Ian to eat this chilli. Ok, I will do that to my kid. MUAHAHAHHAHAHA!

Anyway, Ian is such a darling. Must treasure him at his age now. Cos I think I will be scolding him about everything(like his sister) when he grows up. Oops.

The naughty birthday girl!! How time flies... I still remember attending your 3rd birthday party!!

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With Mummy!

With Eileen godma!!!! LOL. I'm used to calling her that actually :/

So yay! I hope to have more of this dinner dates!! I think I had been stuck with too much work and singing so right now I hardly meet my friends up for dinner. I hope I'll have more time the next few months!(no i won't!!!)

Anyway I hope I don't get killed but I finally had a chance to take photo with the people I see at work! :)
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She was willing to take a photo with me. Anyway that was prolly the last time I will get to see her unless she comes up and visit me when she has her appointment or if I bump into her downstairs! One of my favourite lady and someone that I had built a good relationship with! Gonna miss her :(

See, that's why I love my job and that keeps me going on!!

Updates~

Gosh I can't stop thinking about my exam! Arghhhhh! I seriously don't know what result I will get! Ok, let me imagine the different reactions when the results come out...

Fail: What the #*$&%@... Ok lor. Bo bian. Retake lor! But yay! Not so stressful because it's not grade 8.

Pass: Sigh, I really thought I could have done better BUT YAY! AT LEAST I GOT A CERT! Hmmm, so how now? Move on to grade 8 or take it slowly?

Merit: YESH!!! :DDDD THANK YOU GOD!!! (I would happily post it on fb and tell my teacher as well!) Really by God's grace!!

Distinction: (That's out of the question. So don't bother thinking. HAHAHHAHA).

Before me and my teacher parted the last time, she was like, "Oh, if you really do well we can jump to grade 8. I have scores. You can get them from me. Then after that you can move on to diploma where you would need to write assignments." Erm, like seriously? Am I going to move that far? First, I need to settle on my grade 5 theory before starting any of this. So yeah. I hope the results will come out soon!!

Urgh! I have been having 2 dreams related to the singing exams already! I can't stop thinking about it!! And I kinda miss my teacher too. Hehe. It's been 10 days since I last saw her. I really admire her. If only I could lead her kind of life. Knowing so much music and teaching people... Sometimes I wished I could be more talented and smarter :/ Ok, stop it Maria. You are leading a great life now :)

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Anywaysssss, I'm going to KL with my poly friends next week! Can't wait for this little getaway. I just wanna lie on the bed and chat the whole day. Hehe. I hope to post photos here after the trip!! This blog is seriously getting more and more boring. Zzzzz.

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So, LifeUtd is MOVING!!!! WOOHHOOO! Can't wait for the next time to be awesome!~ Turning 2 in May so it's pretty amazing! God is indeed good :) Easter is round the corner and we've been looking up on the work of the cross and the power of resurrection! I believe that this season I will be transformed and my mind will be renewed! At the same time, the music team will be greater!! Ok, that's pretty random~

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Workwise what am I waiting for? MY BOND ENDS 30TH MARCH FYI. I am waiting for any scholarship oppurtunities. My manager said that there's a chance for me. And I really hope so! At the meantime, let me do really well in work :) I believe God has a way for me! Let Him lead me!

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That's enough updates for now. On top of all I have mentioned, I CAN'T WAIT FOR MY RESULTS! URGH URGH URGH!!!

Nothing To Say

It was a good experience!! But let it stay in my memory :)

ARGHHH! Waiting for the results is killing me!!!

YAY! I can resume eating all my favourite food! ^^

A Milestone

After 10 months on the "express train", I am finally taking my grade 5 singing exam tomorrow! It was always my dream to pursue classical singing since 17 and I'm glad that this dream came true!

This journey was not easy. I had lessons in the morning before my afternoon shift almost every week. It was just so difficult to stand in front of my room's mirror and practice for an hour every other day. That needed a lot of discipline and I'm guilty for not doing it faithfully. Also, learning without any significant music background was hard. BUT I PULLED THROUGH.

Of course I feel very nervous now! But I need to remind myself that I just have to do my best and enjoy that moment in the exam room.

A big thanks to colleagues and friends for being SO encouraging. Not forgetting my teacher who went though this journey with me with much patience and for being my accompanist!

It is just amazing how God can place certain people and situations in my life to make this happen! So, I wanna thank God for His goodness in my life!

Lastly I wanna say that this is not the end. IT'S JUST THE BEGINNING :)

Rantings

This is a blog so I can complain what ever I want.

Yesterday my manager came back from her 3 week leave. I finally got to see her! :O I gave her a hug round her waist(cos i was sitting down). I almost broke down but to avoid embarrassment, I didn't. All the funny or bad stuff that happened in the ward when she wasn't around just came into my mind. She was having a series of meetings and I was quite busy at work yesterday. But if I had the time, I would just wanna sit down and tell her about it.

That just shows how much impact she has on me. Hahaha. She won me over. I can't be bothered if other colleagues were to assume that I am trying to suck up to her(well you may never know). But whatever the case, manager or not, I love her!! Hehe.

And to prove I'm not the sucking up type, I can boldly say here that I am not very fond of the "2nd one". I am trying to be discreet here. I hope no one at work actually reads my blog! Maybe I can't say much here but all I wanna say is that there are some people I can't get along with, and she's one of them.

Then again, I am just lucky to have my current manager as my first boss. I am sure as I move on, the bosses that I encounter won't give me a good time. And that's stopping me from leaving this organisation. Not that I am intending to leave, but if I ever do(maybe there's a 20% chance haha), it will be a painful departure :/

Lesson learnt: As a manager, you need to win your girls' heart! There isn't a need to be strict and anal about certain things. But as along as you build a good relationship, you'll have all of your workers respecting you and keeping the place running in order.

Yeah I totally need that since I am aspiring to be a manager, to run my hospice/nursing home!

Ahhh! She's just so encouraging every time I feel down. Can't wait to meet her again!!

So now I gotta concentrate on my singing exam!!!!! I have 5 more days to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!