Well, I 've been rather disturbed lately.. been thinking alot, so i shall just write down some of my thoughts here...
Well, 1st of all, I've been listening to a lot of radio (cuz I got my new phone and it has radio!). Does anyone realise that like 80% of the songs are about love? (and another 10% is pointless rubbish) And out of these love songs, 80% are about sex? For that matter they use words like 'i wanna love you', and that directly translates to 'i wanna have sex with you' if u listen on to the song lyrics. Seems like the world equates love with sex or something. Pple say 'i love you' all the time. It's used so liberally. But what really is love? If it's not just sex, then maybe it's an attraction? or maybe it's just a feeling? Well, that's what many pple think, but love is supposed to be so much more than this! Isn't it sad that love is seen as such a worthless thing nowadays (so many pple claim to love each other, but look at the way they hurt each other, is that love?)... A few years ago it wasn't like this.. Or perhaps i've grown more aware?
Sigh so this is the world we live in eh? Kinda had a bad reality check. So what happened to no sex before marriage, and having sex with only ur spouse after marriage? It's getting harder to keep these values up in this world, and sometimes i wonder if i'll have the strength to continue being faithful to what i've believed in for the past 19 yrs of my life.. Even some of my closest friends have quite liberal views about this. And even they don't think I can keep it up... But I know this is important. Because God is the one who made us, so he knows what is the best for us. Even if you dun believe in God, you have to admit that liberal views on this issue can destroy relationships and future marriages (i mean, how would u feel if u found ur boyfriend/husband one day 'on the bathroom floor banging with the girl next door'?! and how would u feel if on your wedding night ur husband tells u u're lousy in bed and describes all the other girls he's slept with and how much better they are? wouldn't it be better if both u and him have nothing to compare that special moment to?). Sigh it's hard.. My dear friends, please pray for mi k?
Other than that there are my frens in army. I've heard of so many pple who go into army and backslide. Some come out with vocabulary u've neva heard them say before. And I know most pple will tell me, 'well, everybody does it, welcome to the world!". But do things really have to be like that? Strange, pple talk about changing the world, but once they're out there in it, they become like it and there goes the 'changing the world' dream... Sad isn't it? Maybe one day i'll also become like that? I hope not...
Yup, let's keep praying ok, let's not give up and say, "arh well, it's too hard, forget it." let's keep praying for one another to stay faithful to our cause :)
Friday, March 30, 2007
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Wo Hui Lai Le!
Ok, my mother has requested I use proper English in my writing of my blog so that my pathetic English will improve, so I shall try at least today.
I'm back from Taiwan, actually for more than a weekalready, however I was too lazy to update.. Afterall, I only update when i'm at work and have nothing to do.
1st and foremost, how was my trip to Taiwan? It was a lot of fun! There was lot of good food and fellowship. Ok the food wasn't that good, some of it was just downright wierd, but there'll be some things I'll really miss, like the HUGE milk tea cups (btw, the milk tea is like WAY better than the ones in S'pore!) and the terrifie breakfast every morning :) Nevertheless the fellowship was terrific; with the rest of the s'pore team (there were 9 of us) and with the youth in Taiwan :) The s'pore team always comment that I talk a lot. They say I'm the 1st to come up with the 'but-then-but-then' tongues.. granted it can get rather annoying at times, but it's ok if it's just for fun. We (the 3 of us gals in the S'pore team) made good frens with the Taiwan gals.They're a really funky bunch! And they always buy milk tea (or some other sort of thing) for us :) Yups, if u all are reading this (which is probably not the case cuz this is all in english) I would like to say a huge THANK YOU for being such wonderful hosts to us! And when u come to s'pore, rest assured we will take good care of u! Oh btw, I got to ride on a scooter (seems like everyone over 18 has a scooter)! I thought i was gonna die cuz the traffic there was just a killer (everytime we cross the road we get a heart attack) but I'm still alive, and the pple there survive :P
Well, since this is a mission trip after all I should tok about the spiritual aspect of things.. Ok I wouldn't say I've grown as much as in the previous mission trip (to Bekasi 2 yrs ago) but I have grown and that's wad matters right? :) I learnt a little more on how to be sensitive to the spirit when i pray, and also returned with the conviction to pray for mi family :) Oh and I was called onto the stage to pray for one of the cell leaders there, and my prayer was translated into chinese! It was a rather frightening experience. The pastor (he's german, so we call him a German Shephard :P) just called mi up to pray and I told him "noooo, not me!" but well i did in the end, and i would say it was a rather paiseh experience :P Nevertheless, the whole mission trip was terrific and well worth the money paid to go there, so I would recommend pple to go for something like this as well :)
This is my last week working at ubi! Next week i'll be goin to tkgs to be this thing called a teacher aid! And I get $65 a day (though like 20% goes into cpf, so I get about the same as I do now) and TERRIFIC hours! Because I take an afternoon shift, I get to come to work at like 12pm and work until 5.30 or 6pm! I work 5.5 hours and i get paid the same as when i stay in office for like 9 hours a day! (not to mention i get cpf, so i save up for mi future house now :P) And the best thing is that i start work late, so I get to do my quiet time at home every morning b4 work :) I really thank God for this job because at least now I get more time to do the things i want, and I get to work in a SCHOOL! (well, it's not teaching, but admin is part of a teacher's job too right, so if i want to be a teacher, i'd better get some experience doing this sorta thing too) And the thing is this job came so timely. Just when I'm about to get 'retrenched' from my old job, just after I come back from Taiwan (so that I could pick up the phone when tkgs called), and just after i told God i wanted to get serious with my quiet time with him :) The only downside is that I might not be able to spend so much time with Nicholas cuz i might not be able to stay online all day like i do here.. but well, my momma says it's a time when we'll grow less dependant on each other and more depandant on God :)
And recently also after the release of the A level results, pple have been asking mi what I was gonna apply for. For universities, I'm only applying for NUS science, planning to major in Chem and do a minor in bio. And yes, I ONLY applied for one uni (mi mom calls mi overconfident - i call it not taking up space for some pple who wan so badly to go into some course that I dun really wanna go to and also not wasting money paying application fees :P). Other than that, I'm trying for an MOE scholarship, cuz I wanna be a teacher! and also because without it my parents wun have enough money to send mi overseas for exchange programmes :(
Ok that's it for now, it's knock-off time! So take care everybody esp u my darling! (btw, the proper english thing didn't quite work out eh? :P)
I'm back from Taiwan, actually for more than a weekalready, however I was too lazy to update.. Afterall, I only update when i'm at work and have nothing to do.
1st and foremost, how was my trip to Taiwan? It was a lot of fun! There was lot of good food and fellowship. Ok the food wasn't that good, some of it was just downright wierd, but there'll be some things I'll really miss, like the HUGE milk tea cups (btw, the milk tea is like WAY better than the ones in S'pore!) and the terrifie breakfast every morning :) Nevertheless the fellowship was terrific; with the rest of the s'pore team (there were 9 of us) and with the youth in Taiwan :) The s'pore team always comment that I talk a lot. They say I'm the 1st to come up with the 'but-then-but-then' tongues.. granted it can get rather annoying at times, but it's ok if it's just for fun. We (the 3 of us gals in the S'pore team) made good frens with the Taiwan gals.They're a really funky bunch! And they always buy milk tea (or some other sort of thing) for us :) Yups, if u all are reading this (which is probably not the case cuz this is all in english) I would like to say a huge THANK YOU for being such wonderful hosts to us! And when u come to s'pore, rest assured we will take good care of u! Oh btw, I got to ride on a scooter (seems like everyone over 18 has a scooter)! I thought i was gonna die cuz the traffic there was just a killer (everytime we cross the road we get a heart attack) but I'm still alive, and the pple there survive :P
Well, since this is a mission trip after all I should tok about the spiritual aspect of things.. Ok I wouldn't say I've grown as much as in the previous mission trip (to Bekasi 2 yrs ago) but I have grown and that's wad matters right? :) I learnt a little more on how to be sensitive to the spirit when i pray, and also returned with the conviction to pray for mi family :) Oh and I was called onto the stage to pray for one of the cell leaders there, and my prayer was translated into chinese! It was a rather frightening experience. The pastor (he's german, so we call him a German Shephard :P) just called mi up to pray and I told him "noooo, not me!" but well i did in the end, and i would say it was a rather paiseh experience :P Nevertheless, the whole mission trip was terrific and well worth the money paid to go there, so I would recommend pple to go for something like this as well :)
This is my last week working at ubi! Next week i'll be goin to tkgs to be this thing called a teacher aid! And I get $65 a day (though like 20% goes into cpf, so I get about the same as I do now) and TERRIFIC hours! Because I take an afternoon shift, I get to come to work at like 12pm and work until 5.30 or 6pm! I work 5.5 hours and i get paid the same as when i stay in office for like 9 hours a day! (not to mention i get cpf, so i save up for mi future house now :P) And the best thing is that i start work late, so I get to do my quiet time at home every morning b4 work :) I really thank God for this job because at least now I get more time to do the things i want, and I get to work in a SCHOOL! (well, it's not teaching, but admin is part of a teacher's job too right, so if i want to be a teacher, i'd better get some experience doing this sorta thing too) And the thing is this job came so timely. Just when I'm about to get 'retrenched' from my old job, just after I come back from Taiwan (so that I could pick up the phone when tkgs called), and just after i told God i wanted to get serious with my quiet time with him :) The only downside is that I might not be able to spend so much time with Nicholas cuz i might not be able to stay online all day like i do here.. but well, my momma says it's a time when we'll grow less dependant on each other and more depandant on God :)
And recently also after the release of the A level results, pple have been asking mi what I was gonna apply for. For universities, I'm only applying for NUS science, planning to major in Chem and do a minor in bio. And yes, I ONLY applied for one uni (mi mom calls mi overconfident - i call it not taking up space for some pple who wan so badly to go into some course that I dun really wanna go to and also not wasting money paying application fees :P). Other than that, I'm trying for an MOE scholarship, cuz I wanna be a teacher! and also because without it my parents wun have enough money to send mi overseas for exchange programmes :(
Ok that's it for now, it's knock-off time! So take care everybody esp u my darling! (btw, the proper english thing didn't quite work out eh? :P)
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
tagboard and template
arr.. blogspot dun allow mi to change mi template or put in a tagboard... I hope this can be fixed... Meanwhile pple who wanna drop by and say something please do! just click on the comments button :) thanks for all who dropped a comment! keep them comin! :) hees
Friday, March 2, 2007
The meaning of Grace
Yes! I've changed mi blog address! but it's the same blog nevertheless! Why? Cuz don't you think it's cool?! The meaning of grace. My life IS the meaning of 'grace'! Cuz that's my name!! And more importantly it's what God does in my life that we can see his grace shine through, which makes my life a walking story of His 'Grace' :)
What is 'grace'? Grace is when God gives you something you don't deserve. Which is why my life is the meaning of grace :) Today we got back our Alevel results. The crazy exam we spend mugging hours on end, getting super stressed and busy. I don't deserve it. I really don't deserve the results i've gotten! Yes, to some 4 As may not be alot, but to Grace Chia, it's the best thing that a girl like me could ever do :) That's why i don't say it was mine. For someone who has never even smelled a B in her whole life in VJ, someone who had to retake her maths paper to save it from being dropped, someone who had CCDE for her prelims, I say the unexpected results were God's doing :)
I once watched a video of this handicapped boy who wanted to take part in triathlons and so his dad had to push him along on a wheelchair, swim with him on his back, ride with him on a seat on his bike. The boy enjoys every bit of the race, and when they win, do you think he'll brag that he won? I dun think so, he knows he owes it all to his dad. And so I owe it all to my heavenly daddy too, the one behind mi in every exam paper, the one holding my hand through the darkest moments. So the 1st thank you goes to my Daddy up there :)
The other thank yous will be of course to mi family, in particular mi momma, who had to ensure mi crazy chem questions (at 6.30am in the morning when her coach to m'sia leaves at7), and for nagging mi until she so anxious it seemed like she was the one gonna take the Alevels and not mi :) . And to mi sister Paul(ine), who without fail nag mi everyday to study and get off the phone with Nicholas, and motivate mi to study harder as she mugs her butt off (sometimes harder than mi) for her Olevels, and giving mi siao maths and chem qns to solve, thanks so muches! If i feel in a good mood, i'll treat u to gelare :) To my darling Nicholas, thanks for always being there by my side, the encouragement, for the naggings, the support, the motivation, thank you so much! I love u :)
And then there's pple like Layqueen and Melissa (better known as chin), who always drag mi down to mug with them, and always mug so hard i feel stressed for not mugging as hard! Thank you lots too! Oh and thanks for helping mi with all the nasty questions and ta-haning mi siao reasonings, i noe sometimes I'm a really stubborn girl, so thanks :)
Thanks to all mi classmates and council frens who have helped mi along, mugged together with me, encouraged mi etc, thank you :)
Thanks to all mi teachers too, whom i know work tirelessly to help all of us bring home the results we got today (which was really good, cuz most of mi classmates got 3 or 4 As :))! Thank you Ms Ding (our CT and maths teacher), Mr Toh, Mrs Teo, Ms Rajen, Mr Chang and (even) Mrs Leong!
Hmmm ya i would like to say some stuff about mi b'day too! It was last sunday. For those who remembered and wished mi, thanks, I had a great time, thanks for all your well wishes, and may God bless you too! For those who forgot, shame on u, please remember next time! :P hahas Had a great time with mi mom and sis goin duck tours and having jap bbq dinner! Thanks everybody for making my b'day so happy and special :)
Ok everybody, keep working hard and take cares! God bless!
What is 'grace'? Grace is when God gives you something you don't deserve. Which is why my life is the meaning of grace :) Today we got back our Alevel results. The crazy exam we spend mugging hours on end, getting super stressed and busy. I don't deserve it. I really don't deserve the results i've gotten! Yes, to some 4 As may not be alot, but to Grace Chia, it's the best thing that a girl like me could ever do :) That's why i don't say it was mine. For someone who has never even smelled a B in her whole life in VJ, someone who had to retake her maths paper to save it from being dropped, someone who had CCDE for her prelims, I say the unexpected results were God's doing :)
I once watched a video of this handicapped boy who wanted to take part in triathlons and so his dad had to push him along on a wheelchair, swim with him on his back, ride with him on a seat on his bike. The boy enjoys every bit of the race, and when they win, do you think he'll brag that he won? I dun think so, he knows he owes it all to his dad. And so I owe it all to my heavenly daddy too, the one behind mi in every exam paper, the one holding my hand through the darkest moments. So the 1st thank you goes to my Daddy up there :)
The other thank yous will be of course to mi family, in particular mi momma, who had to ensure mi crazy chem questions (at 6.30am in the morning when her coach to m'sia leaves at7), and for nagging mi until she so anxious it seemed like she was the one gonna take the Alevels and not mi :) . And to mi sister Paul(ine), who without fail nag mi everyday to study and get off the phone with Nicholas, and motivate mi to study harder as she mugs her butt off (sometimes harder than mi) for her Olevels, and giving mi siao maths and chem qns to solve, thanks so muches! If i feel in a good mood, i'll treat u to gelare :) To my darling Nicholas, thanks for always being there by my side, the encouragement, for the naggings, the support, the motivation, thank you so much! I love u :)
And then there's pple like Layqueen and Melissa (better known as chin), who always drag mi down to mug with them, and always mug so hard i feel stressed for not mugging as hard! Thank you lots too! Oh and thanks for helping mi with all the nasty questions and ta-haning mi siao reasonings, i noe sometimes I'm a really stubborn girl, so thanks :)
Thanks to all mi classmates and council frens who have helped mi along, mugged together with me, encouraged mi etc, thank you :)
Thanks to all mi teachers too, whom i know work tirelessly to help all of us bring home the results we got today (which was really good, cuz most of mi classmates got 3 or 4 As :))! Thank you Ms Ding (our CT and maths teacher), Mr Toh, Mrs Teo, Ms Rajen, Mr Chang and (even) Mrs Leong!
Hmmm ya i would like to say some stuff about mi b'day too! It was last sunday. For those who remembered and wished mi, thanks, I had a great time, thanks for all your well wishes, and may God bless you too! For those who forgot, shame on u, please remember next time! :P hahas Had a great time with mi mom and sis goin duck tours and having jap bbq dinner! Thanks everybody for making my b'day so happy and special :)
Ok everybody, keep working hard and take cares! God bless!
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