10.53PM

Can you imagine, being on holiday (sort of) but being so bored, especially being bored of having to look for things to do? Oh dear. Thank goodness i start class tomorrow, i'm so eager for something to do. So inspired by this smart mama, i'm not gonna devote the whole month, but i am gonna practice photography. I foresee that it might come in handy for the future. Don't worry, that's not the only thing i'll do in the house *wink!*

And! After being annoyed after not being able to fold the dozens of unfolded shirts from the laundry quickly because i couldn't remember Adrian's technique, i managed to find this. Yes i am admittedly slow and need a (several, more like) live demonstration to get it. But Hahah! I've got it! You humongous pile of laundry, be afraid! Be very afraid! I'll get you all!

7.23PM

Some things (okay!) thing on my mind...

• We cannot be light without darkness. Should we then pray to be set free from oppression/suppression?

Picturing my 2007

In no particular words and just because a picture says a thousand words.

A barrage of blog posts

Yes, daily blog posts, sometimes a few a day. I think i'm going to be subjected to this for the next three months, thanks to having only one half day of class a week. Contemplating finding work or starting to sell stuff again. Selling is abit sporadic though. I'm just dying to get out of the house most of the time. Feeling like the dog again. Not that feeling bored is bad, just a natural hunger for some mental stimulation.

edit: 5.35pm, my parents pitied me and have agreed to take me out after dinner. I predict to a shopping mall, where else would my parents want to go, but beggars can't be choosers so i'm tagging along happily. Woof!

However, it's been good, this time i have at home. As i look for productive things to do around the house, i see God's hand in my life, grooming me and getting me accustomed to domestic household chores that i've never been interested in before. Not to say that i'm all thaaat interested in them now, but i'm getting used to the idea of it. Let's just say i'm starting to see God even in the mundane, which is great. I can say it started off during camp actually, getting me to mend stuff for AFC, taking care of the kids, caring for people in general. NO, i am not feeling maternal or the biological clock ticking, don't misunderstand. Just rejoicing in the fact that God teaches me through all these simple and small things, preparing me for my future, whatever it may be. He gives me opportunities to practice beforehand, it's so thoughtful.

My new journal

As you can see, I have been practicing my photography, which sad to say hasn't improved all that much. With the new old camera, i have discovered some new functions, especially since Dad never keeps the manual for cameras, preferring to push buttons in a trial and error manner, which in turn forces me to discover things i'd rather find out from a manual in a trial and error manner. Oh well, my subject for today is my brand new journal. I used to journal a long time back, but i've never journalled to keep record of my walk with God and chart my progress, so this is new. I remember writing very anxiously in the past, because i always want to note down every detail of some event that i perceived to be important then. Every detail! And quickly too, before i forget all about it, which i often do. Then i stopped. And i think it was about the same time i got hooked onto Blogger. Haha, oh well. It is always better to write, you can almost see the emotion popping out from the handwritten words.

2008 Goals

Okay, since making the resolution to make Godly resolutions, i'd like to set some goals for myself for 2008. I want to:

• Increase time spent in prayer & Bible study
• Learn to be more patient
• Pursue good healthy friendships
• Make effort to maintain a healthy lifestyle: eating well, sleeping sufficiently and other things pertaining to keeping a lifestyle that glorifies God.
• Start journalling again
  

I think i better stop here, before i trip myself up with my own foot or something.

Punctuation

Remember that post i had on prayer punctuation? Well this isn't so much the point i wanted to make back then, but it's just as odd.


It started off with the post from Radical Womenhood with this picture that accompanied this statement,

Personal typo torture: to lie beneath such a grievous punctuation error and be unable to reach out from the grave to edit it!

I continued to these interesting blogs she linked, called the "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks and Apostrophe Abuse, which really gave me a tickle. It's been a while since i've managed to get a laugh from these things cos really, it happens so often, you just turn a blind eye now.

Bugger

I wanted to wake up at 10.30 today. That did not happen.
I was jolted wildly awake by a horrific dream *Okay! Very few of you already know what it is and it WAS horrific to me* at 10am. Sigh.

I was worried for a while that camp has killed my writing, as i don't seem to be able to write any longer than the current length posts, but this, it was so monumental, i wrote a humongously long post *as compared to the current length* on the private blog. Phew! I can still journal! Small mercies in the midst of emotional turmoil.

9.06PM

Lesson #1 to be learnt in the new year : don't mess with it if it's good enough.
Lesson #2 : Save everything before you change anything.

Explains the current look of the blog. Just so you know, we are UNDER RENOVATION. Segala kesulitan amat dikesali.

edit: I have miraculously managed to recover the original template. Phew! All panic has subsided, renovation sign still up though.

edit: I have miraculously managed to accidentally delete everything again, without saving, yet again. No more panic attacks, but annoyance is building up. I should just go to sleep.

edit: I have miraculously managed to recover the template that i want. I will stop all this soon and just go to sleep before i die of a severe heart attack when i accidentally delete everything again.

edit: it's 11.48PM. I have managed to get it to look exactly like i want it to. Soon has come and gone, now i'm finally gonna leave. Really.

7.25PM

I have yet to finish most of my Christmas pressies. Hahaha, i realise that it is way past Christmas or New Year. Gah...oh well, what's a little waiting among friends. Very few got their presents on time this year, i can count them in my hand. Chalk that up to the busy-ness of camp stuff, general laziness and slothlike lethargy after camp. College starts next week, i'm sorta looking forward and not looking forward to classes at the same time, not that i don't like classes, just certain lecturers kill me. Oh well, it's nice to have things to do, instead of having to wonder what should i do next, like i have been for the past 6 months. That's all an update for today.

Resolving to have Godly Resolutions

Still the start of the new year, but i haven't had time to really sit down and reflect closely on the past year until today. Scrapping my previous years resolutions to not make any resolutions i cannot keep, which is in retrospect quite a silly idea because i thought even if i try, i don't think i could achieve all of them anyway so why bother. Well, times have changed and ideas change too.

Do hard things, right? Can't teach what i don't know, so my first resolution is to have Godly resolutions. What comes after... well, for me to know only. Good luck God with your own resolutions! May you be faithful and consistent to fulfilling the purpose you were created for, in making much of the Lord.

New Year

Okay, i'm blatantly using my blog to say that i've uploaded the New Year service pictures to my Multiply, you will find the link at the section with the links -.- The pictures are mighty grainy up close tho, so now maybe you guys will believe me when i say that my camera is mighty old and low-end. Oh well, who cares to get so up close and personal anyway. So enjoy!