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)

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

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!

CNY!!

Xing Nian Kuai Le everyone! yupyup ok i heard u layqueen, so i shall be lass lazy and update now!

I'm updating from mi office! Cuz mi work is such that there is new work everyday but all that work takes about 3-4 hours to finish only, and i have to stay here from 9-6, with 1hr lunch break inbetween! so vey slack lah, the rest of the time i spend doin random personal research (into like whether psp or nitendo ds is better) and toking to nicholas online and typing super long emails. but i'm just too lazy to update. But well, i finally am updating!

Hmm.. office life is super boring. I'm like not toking for like hours on end cuz the office is so quiet! I think nowadays i even tok less than mi dad (which is really saying something!) ! but actually if u count in all the sms and msn and emails and singing quietly along to mi ipod maybe I still tok alot :) And all i do is the filing, sorting rearranging etc. ydae mi boss came up to mi with a HUGE stack of paper tell mi he wanna use it for rough paper so he ask mi to cancel out the stuff on the printed side of the paper :S yes, that's how brainless and boring mi job is... And most of the time i'm slacking anyway, cuz they ran out of things for mi to do (afterall mi job scope is only all the admin work lah), so they just ask mi to sit down 1st. And i can do anything on mi personal computer except play solitaire :) and for that matter, i get paid $6.50 an hour, so who's complaining?! They say money very hard to earn, but suppose it's not that hard when u're a temp staff doin only admin :) and now i feel really rich! but then again i'm gonna spend it all on mi mission trip to taiwan, so oh well..

Speaking of mission trip, i'm leaving on 13mar and i'll be there for about a week! We'll be goin there to do a youth camp. And we have to speak CHINESE! Horrors! i'm really bad at speaking! though i can understand if pple tok to mi in chinese lah. Looks like have to brush up lah...

Hmm ok, on to the more exciting bit of mi life... Spent vday in the office, but nicholas was online, so we toked online pretty much the whole day :) and i baked cookies for mi colleagues, but other than that there was no celebration! well, i went home after that and video called nicholas on skype :) Oh in the morning i was awoken by mi sister presenting mi with a present which she kept in her cupboard from nicholas which he left with my sis for her to pass to mi on vday! so sweet rite :) i sent him a card 3 days b4 vday, but it reached 2 days after vday... maybe postman got lost on the way to his house :P

Chinese new year was quite fun. Went to malaysia on the 1st day to visit mi no-so-close relatives. And i realised i got a lot of VERY rich relatives! They give the angbao like 50 or 100 ringgit one lor! So even though we have to divide everything by 2 when we convert to sing dollar, it's still quite alot! Oh and mi younger sis is looking forward to me getting married to nicholas so that she can get ang bao from mi earlier :S (lucky neither of us are cantonese cuz they oso have to older pple, so mi bro wun be getting angbao from mi! hahas) yup, on the 2nd day went to mi godgrandma's house to eat lunch, and we were just watching tv the whole time we were there... Then we visited mi dad's side family, actually only mi 2nd aunt was there, so mi momma just sat about toking to her lah. Then we went for a movie, 'Just follow law' at night. wah it's really funny and touching at the same time! That's wad i like about s'pore productions! :)

And on the 3rd day we went to see mi closer relatives. Mi cousins wanted to play blackjack, so i gambled a bit. and won a lot of money! hahas, but feel quite bad, cuz they all younger than mi then i take their money... Well, anyway, after that went to Jasmine's house for a class gathering, but there was only mi and shermaine and zhini... we play game of life, then we go pasir ris to send faiz off to army and celebrate his b'day :) and mi momma cooked shark's fin soup for dinner! :)

Yup and now it's back to work! Went out with the ogls on wed. LQ, Jas and brian, pls rmb to pay christine back for mi present! Btw, thanks andy, lemuel and christine for the b'day treat and the present! u guys rock! keep in touch k :)

Kk, so that's the end of mi exciting life, it's back to mi boring life again... well, maybe i'll update again soon :) meanwhile everyone take care and zu en man yi (that means God's grace be with u! no pun intended :P)!

Earning mi 1st dollar

Oh well, so it's been awhile since i updated, and i haven't told very many pple about mi blog yet, so i guess i should do so soon or end up wasting a lot of time blogging for no one to see!
Kk, recently mi life has been rather interesting, at least more interesting than the previous month, where i spent most of mi days moping around the house playing PS2... yes, so this is good.
Hmmm ok, monday nicholas left for Melbourne... Sent him off at the airport... Yup thanks for everyone's concern, heard from mi sis and other pple that once they heard nicholas was goin away they kept asking so how i was... Well, i'm pretty good, at least for now, i dunno whether i'll be not ok later, but things look pretty good, now that i've filled all my days with things to do and i'm not just sitting around thinkin about him all day... But if u're reading this Nicholas, dun worry k, I still miss u, just that i'm putting this extra energy to work so i dun end up being sad while missing u =)
Ah yes, so many pple have asked too how is teaching... Well, i think i can say that I enjoy it =) It's a good job, a noble, meaningful one, and it pays $65 a day!! For that matter i only need to stay in sch some 5.5hours, but anyway, i only teach 3 periods a day at most, and that's 3-4 hours a day! So most pple will say that it's a slack job, but I assure u, this is NO slack job! Teaching is extremely hard work. First of all, u gotta stand up the whole time u're in class and that's 55 mins. Of course u gotta pace around the place and write on the board in addition to clicking the mouse for powerpoint... And for science teachers (like mi), you have to do lab periods as well, for TKGS it's 1.5 hours, and u have to walk around the class that whole time to make sure the students do the stuff correctly and safely (like how to cut a potato the right way). Secondly, you gotta shout ur lungs out everytime u talk, particularly for the naughtier classes who can't stop talking. And this can get awfully tiresome on the throat, so it's impt to carry a rather large bottle. Thirdly, u have to keep ur mind thinking the whole time. So even while like half the class is sleeping or not paying attention, u still have to entertain the other half that's being all nice and attentive! And u can't just go in there for 55min and talk rubbish right? U have to think of the right things to say! Cuz if u teach them the wrong thing, the students (esp the PRC scholars) and the teacher u're reliefing will run after u! And for that matter, on the topic of PRC scholars (not that I have anything against them), you have to answer all their questions, which are mostly out of the textbook, so I have to attempt to dig out wateva stuff i learnt in JC to answer those questions. But in any case, i like them to ask mi questions, at least it proves that they really have wanting to learn more and they pay attention!
And of course this leaves mi all shack when I come home, but there's still lots to do, like prepare lessons and go online to talk to nicholas =) So although mi legs are too tired to stand and mi eyelids are like closing, I have to skip the nap and go do wat's impt... (like preparing wat to say about osmosis for like 55mins)
Oh but teaching in TKGS is great! The teachers are friendly (they all smile at mi even though they dunno mi, so i smile back) and the students feel a certain attachment to someone who has endured the same rubbish as them for 4 yrs and had survived, so they're pretty nice =) And the teachers who taught mi last time are really shocked when they see mi (only a few rmb mi name, but pretty much all remember mi face, even though they comment i look really different), they say I slimmed down a lot! (yay!) But yup, they do stop to chat with mi and ask mi wat's up in my life and all that... Oh and mi juniors (i only know the sec4s) were really shocked when they saw mi too!
Yup, so as you can see, mi life has been rather exciting, I mean with teaching, everyday is a new day! hahas! But anyways, they're only employing mi for this week cuz the teacher (mr peh) went on reservice, so i get to teach bio for one week... Hopefully there'll be more times to go back there and teach lah =)
Meanwhile i've got this admin job at some company in ubi (eunos) which i'll be doin for 1mth... yup so mi life is well, gonna stay so busy...
Ok that's about it, i think i very lor sor... hmmm yup, stay happy everyone, esp u nicholas!

my new blog!

Oh my, so after like 2 years since they closed down my blog i'm finally starting a new blog! Ok, it's mainly for mi darling Nicholas who's leaving like next week, so he noes wad's goin on in mi life, but for other pple who wanna now more about mi life then oso can lah... Esp for mi frens who dun see mi very much anymore(which is pretty much everybody now actually) Warning though, may get a little boring at times...
Hmm.. yes, shall do something about mi blogskin sometime lah, meanwhile everyone take care and have fun whereever u are!