*the love and grace of God in my life..*

Monday, August 27, 2007

the poolside dinner at raymond's place was a good chill-out
he ordered quite a lot of yummy food from thomson - crabs, prawns, veg, mee goreng, chicken wings, fried rice and man tou..
and all 9 of us had a feast filled with laughter in the air

(clockwise: victor, elena, raymond, jacqueline, kevin, germin, me, gail and choon hou - i was occupying the empty space before i turned photographer)

we went on to have a guys vs gals challenge of pictionary + charade
before going his place to disturb his 4 kids
adorable youngest girl - germaine! so pretty and sweet. =)

had been thankful for something for quite a while but never did have the chance to share it yet
i used to be quite close to kok whye and sau yee (my ex-colleagues) back then and i remembered being ever so thankful to God for putting christians in my workplace and both of them are people who really cared for me
when they both left, it was rather scary
i felt that the support and fellowship was gone just like a snap

but i know God won't leave me alone, with no one to share my problems with at work
and i really am thankful for my colleagues like raymond, jacqueline and wee leng as well as others like leslie, choon hou, jacob, gail, lena, victor etc
they have been people whom i can simply plop over at their workstation and share whatever is on my mind
they are also people whom i know i can trust with what i want to share
and on top of that, i'm thankful for the many advices that raymond always willingly shares with me

even for my other colleagues like elena, germin, jane, joyce, kevin etc..
they are there if i ever need a listening ear, a khaki to jog with..and the list goes on.

i love them. =)

//posted by ivy @ 23:51//

Saturday, August 25, 2007

it's the end-of-semester sadness all over again
after so many semesters, i'm still unable to put away my feelings for the class at the end of the semester
i'm very sure i'm gonna miss the craziness of my day 2 class; and that only reminds me of my day 2 class this time last year as well

on the other hand, im very proud of their UT4 grades
out of 23 students in class, 12 have got an A and that's quite a record!
in the other class, i've got 11 who got an A; again, it beats the class's record
so all in all, imagine the big wide smile that appeared when i see familiar names again and again as i was scrolling through the top 5% of UT4 the other day

heading for the day 2's class's bbq on tues; prob will take some photos.

i was at subway just now for dinner when i saw two girls wearing a black class tee with the word "ohana" scrawled across the front
i miss them too.
been a long while since i last saw the bunch of them in campus.

and that also makes me think of my service-learning students
those were the days; busy yet the bond was so strong!

//posted by ivy @ 23:18//

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

i was pretty bothered by someone for the past few weeks
didn't quite like the fact that he was so nice to me
as much as i'm fine with just being friends, i had to ensure that he was just treating me as one
over the weekend, i guess the matter was more or less settled and i felt so much better
it was also easier to talk to him now. =)

worked from home these two days and since i have a couple of hours on hand this afternoon and was feeling so bored at home, i went house-visiting
liked one of them quite a bit; the other was so-so

facilitation certification result was emailed to me one hour back
for the first time in my life, i didn't clear a "test/exam".
argh.
that only means i have to re-do my class filming probably next semester
how disgusting.
to think i was quite confident of clearing since my 2nd and 3rd meeting passed with flying colors and no questions asked at all.

//posted by ivy @ 18:48//

Monday, August 06, 2007

random ramblings.

during PM visit to our campus last week, i was selected to be an usher by OHR; most of us have no idea why we were selected
ushered in PM's brother and i didn't even know until half a minute later
PM was dressed in pink, and he said "hi" me to me on his way to the library visit; booming voice considering his height and the silence in the library

watched "simpsons" last week in town after work
a total of 8 of us, pretty interesting becos i haven seen half of them for a long time
quite a relaxing evening

while having the new pizza hut cheese bites fondue last week with wendy and jon, we had the urge to go cycling, thus decided to make it on a saturday
i smsed a couple of them, and the final turnout was 5 of us on saturday which was a perfect number, considering i drove
a good session of 4 hrs on the bike to and fro the ends of ECP..
journey to ECP was fine but it was stressful having to drive to marine parade for dinner and later on, sending all of them back
i prefer driving in the day, not so for night.

church shifted to west coast recreation centre yesterday
it was the first time we had our service there and since i dunno the way there via private transport, jon came to pick me and i sort of know two ways of getting there now

was talking to someone a while ago and i realised why i felt slightly disappointed
i recalled hao feeling upset over ohana in the past because it didn't seem as close as it used to be when they were still in w25L
and i don't think he was the only one
i remembered back then, how close the whole gang of us were
despite our busy schedules, we never neglected anyone
the group would make time for each other
i won't forget how gareth tried to cheer me up by gathering them for dinner at marina and buying ben & jerry for me and cedrik came to pick me too; it didn't seem very very long ago but those were the times i missed

i need to take a break during the aug-sept holidays but i don't think that's going to come true
poly forum is driving me insane, and yes, im frustrated at the quality of work produced by the team so far

//posted by ivy @ 20:53//