Tuesday, November 23, 2004
you wun believe this.. my dear sister actually accidentally poked her right eye with her hair.. right now, it's swollen. it looked as if someone boxed her. ha.. went with her to have breakfast and then to the doc's (took halfday urgent leave).. anyway, i really love her :) she has this wild and amusing imagination that blows my mind off sometimes..
she asked me if i knew her favourite book was.. dunno why but i just said "little prince" and she's amazed that i'm right.. hmm.. telepathy perhaps.. i think this book suits her perfectly cos she has such great lateral thinking skills.. poof
went to bras basah with auntie florence to get some stuff for the children's camp.. hee.. :) purchased some really good books on art and craft.. weeeeeee...
was at auntie florence's place last night - was her bday.. haa
i was tryg to explain to nathan my china trip.. conversation went something like this
yh & nathan in the room, nathan friddling with his collection of bears, conversation took place after nathan introduced all his bears (about 5 i think) to yh
~yh: hey nathan, i just came back from china
*nathan: huh? china? chinatown ar?
(yh frowns slightly)
~yh: nooo.. not chinatown, it's china, lijiang .. oh, and it snowed when i was there...
*nathan: really? wow.. so did you have a snow fight? cool...
~yh: no nathan.. we were really really cold...
*nathan: so what did you do there?
~yh: we went there to the orphanage..and i saw children who were as young as 4, scrubbing their own clothes..
*nathan: oh... (acts blur and continues friddling with his bears)
haa... oh well.. me adores nathan..
i've this spinning headache everyday eversince i came back from lijiang.. dunno why.. hope it stops soon.. perhaps it's due to the lack of rest.. has been in full swing (even on monday) eversince i hit town.. need to prepare stuff for camps, melaka trip.. I'M REALLY GLAD that i can serve HIM yeah..kinda got a new sense of urgency and passion in my service to HIM..
ahh.. miss the children in lijiang.. Lord, I know You have a special heart for them all.. pls keep them safe (i know you would even if i didn't ask)
poof...
*really hope that i can teleport from places to places so that i can save on plane tickets and of course precious time*
going to melaka tmr with the girls..please keep us in prayer.. thks!
{5:36 PM}
Sunday, November 21, 2004
Hihi! *smile*
Haa.. I know that I hv not blogged for thousands of years (and the lijiang team pple would say "yahui, I tell you a thousand million times not to exaggerate!.. haa)
Everything’s happening in a whirlwind.. first, there’s E-life! 2004.. I’m totally awed by how God opened doors. Even though it seems like nothing much really happened but He's working in extraordinary ways.. (tsk.. if you wanna know more, approach me.. haa)
Lijiang trip...
What a mind-blowing experience! What we ever did was to offer to God our 5 loaves and 2 fishes.. haa… and He used it to bless others in ways beyond our imagination..
I’m in the midst of writing an email – a record of what happened ... every single day, we saw God’s hands, intervention and awesome presence.. one of us even experienced healing from HIM! Woah… the local worker there said that everyday she’s just amazed to see how God is bringing this team to areas where other teams had never been..
We are so so so humbled that God would use such ordinary ppl to attain things for Him.. Expect great things for God, attain great things for HIM! (wan the email? Just tagg me)
The very first contact with the children was with the pre-schoolers (4-6 years old)… when we went to their "dormitory’s common area", we saw them squatting there scrubbing their clothes! Wow.. my heart really really ached.. lijiang’s really really cold.. whenever we need to wash our dishes, our hands would turn icy cold, as if it’s frozen meat from the freezer (i know everyone really dreaded doing the dishes.. eventhough no one complained..haa)
Oh ya.. there are of course some hilarious moments.. I was with auntie Serene(after a teaching in the language sch) in the wet market, buying some stuff to cook and we came to this stall .. selling pork, chicken, mutton and … gasp… dog meat!!! Arrhh… haha.. took a picture of it.. we must have been seen as 2 silly women screaming "dog dog dog…. " Haaa.. if I can, I’ll post it on my blog.. but on second thoughts, maybe not.. too explicit contents.. haaa
To dot, susanna, pris and gwen who helped us with the mission trip, THANKS SO MUCH.. I really appreciate all the help.. the children really really benefitted a lot from the stuff.. you gals are great!!!
To the rest of my team mates for the trip (juanita, ashley, prisca, grace, amelia, jasmin, siew eng, florence, serene and kevin..I love all of you.. it’s been such an incredible experience.. I know God has spoken to each and everyone of you in His personal and gentle ways.. He has spoken to me! I’m really soo soo awed! Today during church service, I’m so awed by God.. was really crying badly.. from the start when the speaker spoke till the end of service.. I was just thinking about His faithfulness, his loving kindness… He gently spoke to me many times during the trip..
I think jacinth, susanna, jolene, dot and tammy must be thinking that yahui’s mad .. speaker sharing only what, what to cry about? (ha.. they came today so that the church can pray and keep them in prayer for the coming melaka trip)
I am now preparing to go for the melaka trip.. jacinth, jolene, susanna, dot, esther, sabby and tammy.. please keep esther in prayer.. she hasn’t been well.. :) thanks
During the lijiang trip, I heard the mandarin version of "How great you are"… woah.. what a lovely song…
You are deserving of all the praise Lord
My heart is yearning to be in your presence once more
Deep inside my heart is burning
I want to give You more
You’re the only one that I adore
How great You are
How great You are
You are the mighty King
And You’ve come to reign in me
How great You are
How great You are..
I give you all the praises of my heart.
{2:33 PM}