Wednesday, May 25, 2011
♥ ikea. coffee. update.
ikea is amazing.
I was feeling pretty bleh today, so I dragged myself out of the house and tagged along with louis and co to the big yellow and blue building
They have this totally awesome "eat your discount" deal this week, which basically means.. you eat at their cafe / restaurant, and however much you spent on food, gets deducted from your purchases at the check out
HOW AWESOME IS THAT?
I was very happy. Even though I got lost....
Anyways I just think it's such a good idea. It attracts so many customers and everyone is happy!
We even went to san churros after and got free coffee (yes, did you know, every wednesday in my, they were doing free copy? AMAZING. even though i hate coffee.)
Anyways, I know I haven't blogged about my life in a while. What's been happening?
Med's getting better. Or maybe I'm becoming more tolerant.
Exams are in like two weeks, and I'm being....... rather lazy. Which is not good. Especially with an assessed oral presentation and report due next week...
Seriously, what am I doing?
Time to get off my butt and do some work...
On other news, I've officially dropped generate and taken up lifegroup leadership.
Generate. I don't know. My excuse was that I didn't have enough time. And that's true. But I guess what's more true is that, I didn't feel like I was getting that much out of it. Investing time into something that wasn't particularly worth while for me.. I guess it's just silly. The culture of the group as well, was a bit odd I thought. I just find it really weird that it's "normal" to put together all these people passionate about eradicating poverty - and they come together to head out, party and get drunk. I don't know, maybe because it's not my thing, that I don't understand. Most of all, I just felt there was this BIG thing missing in everything they do. And I realized it even on camp... they're missing God in the whole process. Everything they do, they rely on human effort and money. They want to give people food to keep them alive, but what about hope? faith? life? eternal life.
Lifegroup leadership. I think this is where God wants me to be right now. This is where I can grow. This is where I can be influential to others. This is where I want to be right now.
And that's what's been happening in a nutshell.
I was feeling pretty bleh today, so I dragged myself out of the house and tagged along with louis and co to the big yellow and blue building
They have this totally awesome "eat your discount" deal this week, which basically means.. you eat at their cafe / restaurant, and however much you spent on food, gets deducted from your purchases at the check out
HOW AWESOME IS THAT?
I was very happy. Even though I got lost....
Anyways I just think it's such a good idea. It attracts so many customers and everyone is happy!
We even went to san churros after and got free coffee (yes, did you know, every wednesday in my, they were doing free copy? AMAZING. even though i hate coffee.)
Anyways, I know I haven't blogged about my life in a while. What's been happening?
Med's getting better. Or maybe I'm becoming more tolerant.
Exams are in like two weeks, and I'm being....... rather lazy. Which is not good. Especially with an assessed oral presentation and report due next week...
Seriously, what am I doing?
Time to get off my butt and do some work...
On other news, I've officially dropped generate and taken up lifegroup leadership.
Generate. I don't know. My excuse was that I didn't have enough time. And that's true. But I guess what's more true is that, I didn't feel like I was getting that much out of it. Investing time into something that wasn't particularly worth while for me.. I guess it's just silly. The culture of the group as well, was a bit odd I thought. I just find it really weird that it's "normal" to put together all these people passionate about eradicating poverty - and they come together to head out, party and get drunk. I don't know, maybe because it's not my thing, that I don't understand. Most of all, I just felt there was this BIG thing missing in everything they do. And I realized it even on camp... they're missing God in the whole process. Everything they do, they rely on human effort and money. They want to give people food to keep them alive, but what about hope? faith? life? eternal life.
Lifegroup leadership. I think this is where God wants me to be right now. This is where I can grow. This is where I can be influential to others. This is where I want to be right now.
And that's what's been happening in a nutshell.
Labels: generate, leadership, lifegroup, shopping
11:11 PM
Friday, December 17, 2010
♥ admission & reflection
The Admission
Well, my sister got admitted to the court today.
Yes, she is not just a law graduate, but actually a 'real' lawyer.
It was a really hectic day. Oh and the night before she literally went through my mum and grandmother's wardrobe dictating what they could and could not wear...
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| family photo on dilys' admission day [17.12.2010] |
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| dilys & i in front of the supreme court |
I was meant to work in the afternoon but I ended up calling and taking it off because it was just way too rushed.
The Reflection
At night, we had lifegroup, last one for the year! And it was really awesome.
We all reflected on the past year and shared with each other. And we opened up these question sheets we had filled in at the beginning of the year. At first I was quite hesitant to read mind, because from what I had remembered writing, I had failed to pull through on...
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| self-reflection snapshot from feb 2010 |
But in the end it was actually pretty cool. I read through mine and some things were still the same.. others had changed. It was really cool. Because it got me thinking about a lot of things.
On that question sheet, I wrote about how lost I felt, how confused and how hurt I was about the whole medicine thing. But I think over the past year I've started to catch glimpses of that bigger picture. Being able to look back and see a blessing in disguise.
I'll post my testimoney another day. And more reflection stuff as the new year comes into play.
In the meantime, I think I have a letter to write.
Labels: family, life, lifegroup, medicine, reflections, sister, spiritual life
11:45 PM
Friday, August 27, 2010
♥ Christmas decorations already!!!
Can't believe david jones have already decked out the christmas decorations. Like seriously. It's only august.
Our tree probably won't even going up til december... That's if we can even be bothered to put it up this year
In lifegroup we watched this video about all these different faiths from different parts of africa. It was a tad weird. Like the voo doo stuff was really O.O like they believed if you got the intestine of this male lizard thing and put it inside a female lizard body, it would improve you love life. And like really superstitious stuff like that... It was interesting though. Some of them had like animal sacrifices and stuff and that really grossed me out hey.
on other news, stat assignment is killer. It's really hard T.T i don't know how i'm going to finish. Spent like 4 hours today on it and got stuck on every question. Just feels like everything's piling up again and i can't find time to fit it all in. If only there was more hours in a day. Or if i was superwoman. Unfortunately i'm not. So one thing at a time. Step by step.
anyways sorry about large number of posts today. Quite happy i got this m.blogging working. And yes. Finding it quite convenient. However right now my tummy is calling for food. So toodles.
Labels: assignments, christmas, lifegroup, m.blogging
10:16 PM
Saturday, February 6, 2010
♥ thoughts running through my head
- + i am somewhat glad that my lifegroup might possibly be backing up the events the leos club will be a part of, once that gets up and running. it assures me of a few more people that i know i can rely on consistently.
- + i need to contact the societies council president about the leos club... hmm i'll get to that on monday
- + pete's funeral is on monday. i think i'll go. i should go.
- + my boyfriend said he'd call me after work today. he didn't. tsktsk!
- + i did a bit more shopping today. it's so hard not to, when the shoe shop is right across from my workplace...
- + i'm quite excited that my church has caught onto something greater... that we have started planning to move into the community. that we're adding a bit of social justice flavour to it too. love it.
- + i hate the fact that my nailpolish chips so easily *shakes fist at revlon*
- + had a play around with the new samsung jet today. its not bad aye. pretty cheap too!
- + the manager is back at work. she did a lot of cleaning haha. she's very particular with a lot of things. everything needs to be in place. i guess it's a good thing, at least then everythings in order (and its easy to find things)
- + mission conference committee meeting tomorrow. i wonder what sorta ideas will come up.
- + TBC leavers 08 reunion tomorrow too! should be good to catch up. i'm so totally craving chilli salted fried squid tenticles....... YUMMMMMMMM.
- + i still haven't told my parents what sorta things i'm getting involved in this year. i'm scared my mother will go in freak out mode or something. hmmmmmmmmm. should i just tell her as it comes? =/ like i normally do. haha.
- + vroom vroom, driving progress has been slow, unfortunately... been working, so not really anywhere to drive too huh.
alright thats it for now
12:04 AM
Monday, June 15, 2009
♥ yayayayay
exam progress: 4 / 4
psyc: completed
maths: completed
anth: completed
chem: completed
chemistry, i needed a 66% to hit the d that i wanted, it was borderlining it since chem isn't exactly the easiest subject in the world... but it was possible, so i'm hoping i made it!
WOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. freedom feels good.
even though it's not absolute freedom... there are several things i need to achieve these holidays. and i'll list them for you.
1. complete the box of stuff (full of things to read) for my boyfriend to take with him on his longlong flight to america.
2. get my proof of age card.
3. find a driving instructor, and start driving lessons... and become a good driver =)
4. work work work. i've got a whole load of hours at looksmart, because the fulltimer is going away...
5. save save save... until i'm debt free, and even after that... i should really start having some savings in my bank account, rather than living paycheck to paycheck (sigh!)
6. shop shop shop. yipeeeeeeeeeeeee i've been putting it off for so longgggggg. but don't worry, i'll only buy stuff on sale, and things that i need... e.g. cardigan. boots. oh except for my air maxes...... i dont need them....... but footlocker = 30%? <3>
7. UMAT UMAT UMAT. umat prep! i took a break from it for exams, but its time to hit straight back into it now. because i'm going to teaRRRRRRr up those umat papers (just like i did for all my semester exams xD)
8. finish the Dreaming With God Book - for the sake of my lovely cell group leaders who i feel very sorry for, because we always rock up without having read anything =/ and it screws up the whole lesson plan they had set.
9. catch up with friendssss! i haven't caught up with quite a few of them for a whilee *cough my boyfriend steals all of my time xD cough* but i dont want to turn into that kinda friend... that loses contact with everyone =(... so time to organise some fun outings for everyone ^^
10. figure out what units i'm going to drop / pick up for nxt sem... and sort out my uni timetablee (oh please God, no more 8am classes, prettyyy pleaseeeeee)
11. make the most of it, yet also make sure i learn to relax, and have some alone time (i dont think i've spent a whole day at home bored + guilty free (aka not meant to be studying) in a longlong time...
to finish, i would just like to say, that the person who designed the ikea store layout was very smart, in that he only put one entrance (front of store) and one exit (back of store) so that you have to walk through EVERYTHING just to get out... hence ur more likely to buy more stuff...
but still.. ikea is awesomee...... <3
oh and my flowers died =(... they were already dying, but because i had a morning exam this morning and left my house early, i forgot to leave them in the sun. i'm going to dry to dry the orange oness... but the orchids are like impossible to dry.
psyc: completed
maths: completed
anth: completed
chem: completed
chemistry, i needed a 66% to hit the d that i wanted, it was borderlining it since chem isn't exactly the easiest subject in the world... but it was possible, so i'm hoping i made it!
WOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. freedom feels good.
even though it's not absolute freedom... there are several things i need to achieve these holidays. and i'll list them for you.
1. complete the box of stuff (full of things to read) for my boyfriend to take with him on his longlong flight to america.
2. get my proof of age card.
3. find a driving instructor, and start driving lessons... and become a good driver =)
4. work work work. i've got a whole load of hours at looksmart, because the fulltimer is going away...
5. save save save... until i'm debt free, and even after that... i should really start having some savings in my bank account, rather than living paycheck to paycheck (sigh!)
6. shop shop shop. yipeeeeeeeeeeeee i've been putting it off for so longgggggg. but don't worry, i'll only buy stuff on sale, and things that i need... e.g. cardigan. boots. oh except for my air maxes...... i dont need them....... but footlocker = 30%? <3>
7. UMAT UMAT UMAT. umat prep! i took a break from it for exams, but its time to hit straight back into it now. because i'm going to teaRRRRRRr up those umat papers (just like i did for all my semester exams xD)
8. finish the Dreaming With God Book - for the sake of my lovely cell group leaders who i feel very sorry for, because we always rock up without having read anything =/ and it screws up the whole lesson plan they had set.
9. catch up with friendssss! i haven't caught up with quite a few of them for a whilee *cough my boyfriend steals all of my time xD cough* but i dont want to turn into that kinda friend... that loses contact with everyone =(... so time to organise some fun outings for everyone ^^
10. figure out what units i'm going to drop / pick up for nxt sem... and sort out my uni timetablee (oh please God, no more 8am classes, prettyyy pleaseeeeee)
11. make the most of it, yet also make sure i learn to relax, and have some alone time (i dont think i've spent a whole day at home bored + guilty free (aka not meant to be studying) in a longlong time...
to finish, i would just like to say, that the person who designed the ikea store layout was very smart, in that he only put one entrance (front of store) and one exit (back of store) so that you have to walk through EVERYTHING just to get out... hence ur more likely to buy more stuff...
but still.. ikea is awesomee...... <3
oh and my flowers died =(... they were already dying, but because i had a morning exam this morning and left my house early, i forgot to leave them in the sun. i'm going to dry to dry the orange oness... but the orchids are like impossible to dry.Labels: boyfriend, chemistry, driving, exams, freedom, friends, hoildays, lifegroup, shopping, stress, study, umat, uni, work
5:56 PM
Saturday, April 18, 2009
♥ let go, let God...
You know when there are times... you look back at your life... and you see how fortunate you've been. how blessed you are. how silly you were to have worried at all those times, without realizing that God would always pull you through.
And you think to yourself... wow, life has been so good to you - God has been so good to you.
Then sometimes happens, to ruin your outlook. A trigger... that hits you back to reality.
The reality of assignments - and the lack of time...
The reality of friendships - and the fights or arguements...
The reality of relationships - and if they're going in the right direction...
The reality of the future - and if you're doing what you should, in order to get where you want.
And you fall back into this hole... where you know you'll eventually get out of it... but at this very moment, it doesn't feel like it. you want OUT now! but you dont end up getting what u want.
It's okay. I know later in life, I will look back, and I will see how God carried me through... like He does everytime.
I need to let go, and let God.
I need to begin to stress less... to understand that I do not do this on my own ability. But I have God. Every step of the way.
When i begin to look at my life, and see these assignments, tests and friendships... I begin to worry. stress. freak out. because I can't handle this on my own. I don't have the ability to get through this alone.
And it's awesome. because I'm not alone.
but at this very moment. i don't feel very awesome. help me God!
And you think to yourself... wow, life has been so good to you - God has been so good to you.
Then sometimes happens, to ruin your outlook. A trigger... that hits you back to reality.
The reality of assignments - and the lack of time...
The reality of friendships - and the fights or arguements...
The reality of relationships - and if they're going in the right direction...
The reality of the future - and if you're doing what you should, in order to get where you want.
And you fall back into this hole... where you know you'll eventually get out of it... but at this very moment, it doesn't feel like it. you want OUT now! but you dont end up getting what u want.
It's okay. I know later in life, I will look back, and I will see how God carried me through... like He does everytime.
I need to let go, and let God.
I need to begin to stress less... to understand that I do not do this on my own ability. But I have God. Every step of the way.
When i begin to look at my life, and see these assignments, tests and friendships... I begin to worry. stress. freak out. because I can't handle this on my own. I don't have the ability to get through this alone.
And it's awesome. because I'm not alone.
but at this very moment. i don't feel very awesome. help me God!
Labels: assignments, faith, God, life, lifegroup, overload, stress, uni
12:17 AM
