The 30s and 40s

I wanted to blog this down because I felt so loved by god!

I met a nice Singaporean family from my BSF group and this nice lady has been taking care of me like a mother. Just over the weekend, she knew that it was hard for me to travel around New Jersey without a car. She offered to bring me to the Chinese Supermarket, an international market and then we went to my favorite supermarket TRADER JOE to get groceries. She also wanted to pick me up after church every sunday because she knew how infrequent the bus was on Sunday and I always had to take two hours to travel back from church to home even though they were pretty near.Of course I kindly declined even though she kept insisting. We chatted for three hours, i felt so great!! I like to always hang around with older woman because I felt they were so wise and there were so much to learn from their experiences. Their stories encouraged me to become a more stronger and mature woman. Now I began to realise that I have this tendency to join the woman's group which was for the mid 30s and early 40s because I just like to hear and share how these woman balance family and work, serve their husbands,children and be committed in church and social activities.They are such caring,capable and positive women who are so zealous of life that I look upon them as mentor.Some things about these woman who are so mature and stable that I am find it very attractive..

Anyway back to this Nice Auntie ( I don;t like to use Auntie because she is not Auntie at all), upon hearing that I have a stomach flu yesterday and have been staying at home because I have been vomitting, guess what, she asked her daughther to drop me at an email to say that she had left a box of curry and the BSF notes in the conceige. When I went and picked up the stuff,my heart felt snuzzy wuzzy. I felt so loved with the box of cooked curry nicely wrapped in a plastic bag and the bsf notes carefully wrapped in a plastic sheet. You can feel how attentive her little nice gesture were. I sent an email to her daughter, ming , who by the way was one of my fellow colleague at Teachers College ( Is such a small world..really)to thank her so much.This family is so sweet. God really knows how to place the right people at the right time in my life when I need it. Knowing this family recently really made my move back to New Jersey much more comforting and heart-warming. I felt almost wanting to burst out into tears.HE really provides!

In addition, my lovely friend from school just dropped me a card before she left.
In the card,it said," Hello! how are you doing? Well I see you often in the class but never got to share, so I decided to write. haha How's everything? how's your family ? How's your place in NJ? Well just wanted to say" hi" Love you in Christ, K. Isn't that sweetest thing you can ever receive?????I really really really felt so loved by god and his people. Seriously, two people showed me their love when I felt so sucky these few days....oh my gowd! God love me so much!

And then, this morning, I told my good friend,S. in mid 30s and said I felt very blessed to know her and thank her for everything she has done for me. Yes, she has been superb in helping me sorting out some logistic stuff during this period of time. No complaints, always ready to help and yes, I feel that she is always so available when I need to talk. Gosh....can you believe a mother of 2 with work to juggle and making me feel like she is always there...isn't that incredible?? I think I really have to give her a big treat to her and another woman in her mid forties..hehhe ( whom I will reveal more when the time comes)If this thing ever fall through, I feel god really has a plan for everyone.

So all these 30s and 40s woman appearing in my life and us becoming good friends, I thought to myself: god is indeed good...HE is indeed preparing me for my next stage of life as I approached my 30 and starting to have my own children. He showed me good role models...role models that I always aspire for: To be always ready to serve,care and love and invest in people's life because you never know how your little gesture can be of help to someone.

Thank you my lord,in the midst of uncertainty, there is calmness, love, assurance and comfort from you whom I only know can provide so timely.

My Hubba Hubs....

If u believe it, this is my first time doing such test about BB....let me see how many did i strike?

1. He’s sitting in front of the TV, what is on the screen?
Soccer

2. You’re out to eat; what kind of dressing does he get on his salad?He eats salad more in the states or whenever when we are out eating angmoh food in Singapore which is rare. But if there is the occasion,Italian Vinegerette or Asian Sesame Dressing to go!

3. What’s one food he doesn’t like?
Liver.Durian.Any food I like extremely, he doesn't like!!We are opposite.

4. You go out to the bar. What does he order?Any kind of beer!?Favorite any thing that is smooth and not Tiger.

5. Where did he go to high school?
ACS

6. What size shoe does he wear?

10? Am I right?

7. If he was to collect anything, what would it be?

He loves comics in the past and now he collects a lot of manga and animations CDs. He is a super huge fan of Fantasy books. He has a huge collection of it,some part of it...i have resold them on ebay because they were taking too much space when we were in the states. Am I mean or not??hehhe

8. What is his favorite type of sandwich?

Ramy burger??heheh and anything that is huge with meat to fill his big appetite.No pickle and not much cheese especially goat cheese and blue cheese.

9. What would this person eat every day if he could?

Pasta and any kind of flavored rice!

10. What is his favourite cereal?

cornflakes with raisins?

11. What would he never wear?

He is pretty open to wearing anything but not a dress,g-string or tight briefs.Hahha

12. What is his favourite sports team?

Liverpool

13. Who will he vote for?

Secret.

14. Who is his best friend?

I guess me ...Hahaha

15. What is something you do that he wishes you wouldn’t do?

Getting messy and unorganised or getting moody once in a blue moon

16. How many cities/countries has he lived in?

Singapore,America

17. What is his heritage?
Hainanese like me!!!Yeah

18. You bake him a cake for his birthday; what kind of cake?

I never bake him a cake on his birthday.Hhehehe but I bake cakes on a regular basis. Betty crocker chocolate,butter ,carrot and lots of muffins and cookies...all those that are fast and speedy to do...hehehhe

19. Did he play sports in high school?
Soccer,basketball,and did i tell u he is a dragonboater when he is in JC..ahhahah

20. What could he spend hours doing?
Playing games and hitting balls at golf courseHaha

Growing up.

I can't imagine how I went thru my uni days back in NTU. Just today, while visiting NIE, I am thinking how on earth had I survived my three years in NTU.Thankfully, living in hostel had salvaged my traveling journey back then.

I felt really nostalgic being on the campus itself. The landscape still had a tinge of familiarity but on close scrutiny, there were a lot of new changes. Brand new blocks of hostels, a new research centre for the engineering school and being in NIE itself was different compared to the old days of dusty coridoors,WIP landscapes and inadequate facilities. I am so impressed by how things had changed .
Time flew,new changes, new improvements.

Walking through the coridoors of the academic professors' office seemed to remind me of how I went and visited my professor for the many meetings in his office with my group mates to refine our final year project. A bit de javu. But 7 years have passed by, this time round, I am meeting my friends who were lecturing there to seek career advice.

Looking at the young graduates who were rushing for tutorials and lectures, I just suddenly felt I had grown older. I was once that young!

Neigh....goes the Riders Cafe

So my dear friend, Susan ,knew that I had been wanting to check out cool hang out areas in Singapore and kindly brought me to the Riders Cafe at the Saddles' Club for lunch. I love that place!It is situated in the lush greenery where you can spend a relaxing time chit chatting with your frens and be amused by an odd horse trotting by. Riders Café has a rare, rustic charm to it, considering the concrete jungle called Singapore in which we live. This casual eatery is in good stead for a successful future as long as it maintains its quaint and cosy allure.Food serve is excellent although I think is a bit pricey for a lunch menu. I will definitely visit it again for is relaxing ambience.Thanks Susan for this wonderful recommendation

Toothpaste,soymilk and exfoliator=love?

R:I had some presents for you
Me:What?
R:Here,take a look..
I rummaged through the the NTUC plastic bag and found my favorite soymilk and also an exfoliator for bathing and new tooth paste.

I was grinning almost to heaven.Not that i had given instruction to him to help me buy the stuff. Since I am going to be back for just a month, I had not been on top of things and had been taking it really easy.That included compromising with my daily necessities such as drinking my favorite soymilk,my bathing toiletries.
Babyface was thoughtful to drop by the NTUC on his way back home to buy these stuff for me.Sweet.Sometimes, the smallest things in life can really made you happy.Thanks,babe.

Who builds the house?

Just resting in the lord and knowing that he will provide all we ever need even when we learn to rest can be comforting.

Knowing that I need to constantly learn to depend and worship in him in my marriage and family and other areas of my life,

Knowing that he will always prepare me to be a good wife, daughter, daughter in law,sister and friend

Knowing that nobody but HIM will constantly provide me with the right seasons of rest where there will be gifts like physical /emotional recovery and spritual wisdom and vision, away from anxiety and worry, away from all the little snippets of fear that seeped into the many facets of life,

Knowing that I can always trust that he loves and always provide.

Thank you god that you are the one who builds the house.They labour in vain who build it.(Psalm 127:1)

Unless the lord builds the house