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

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

i have not been wanting to blog because im so tired each day after work
it's crazy over at office.
let's see what happened since last mon.

tues i had class, and it was another awfully quiet day 2 class; drove me mad.

wed's EEP at punggol wasn't any better; i took over jacob's class since he's leaving and i've heard stories about that class. so when i took over, i tried to teach nicely for the first 3 mins before i screamed at the class, challenged the guys who talked back to me, punished one scapegoat and in 5 mins, they were sitting there still and hushed while i just rattled on my lesson and finished the presentation in 20 mins.

thurs and fri were stand-by days - i wasn't activated and so took the chance to rush my grading since the deadline were then. it's really stressful having the D+3 system.

sat was aunty janette's farewell at GB parade and the girls were so cooperative that i'm so proud of them
we taught them a song, got them to write farewell notes over our supposedly "squad time". at night, it was makan session at candice's place, yumz!

sun was sleeping day. haha.

yday and today are facilitation days and today's class is driving me crazy with their silence so much that i scolded them this morning
tmr is EEP at punggol again and i hope i don't have to scold them again after their experience with me last week
it's a packed week! and i'm busy.. with my "to-do list" growing and growing and growing.

on a happier note,
fiance and i went shopping at IMM on sat afternoon and we purchased our air-con already. good service given to us by gain city's competitor! haha.
tried on beds too, and i really love the "royal princess" but it's so costly! we'll look around more i guess.
on sun, we started deciding on our march-in song as well.. 1-2 songs in mind now.
i've also booked my beloved wedding car! wooohooo.. expensive because it's new batch of car. gosh. but i really adore it!

//posted by ivy @ 09:23//

Monday, April 21, 2008

as i type, my beloved is on his way back from thailand
his plane probably just took off, and onto auto-pilot mode soon.

i miss him so, so much!
his younger bro made fun of me today!
his reply to my msn nick "can't wait for fiance to be back" was
"wah.. it's only less than a week lor..haha."

bleahz.

jacob is converting to AA.. suddenly i feel that we're going to miss this "xiao-di" of ours.

alrighty, off to bed soon
i've a class tmr, UT to craft, IG briefing to conduct, prob briefing to attend, ETDF application to administer and grading to finish
ridiculous!
i'm complaining..complaining..complaining..
too much work! ahhhhh!!

//posted by ivy @ 22:08//

Friday, April 18, 2008

IG recruitment went fine
i created a simple email blast in 15 mins and sent out to the entire school
as of now, sign-up is around 65, not bad!
quite a bit of planning and admin to do over the weekend because i'm in a "not-wanting-to-do-any-work" mode today

quarrelled with my boss yesterday over the phone
super frustrated.
first time ever, that i dared to talk back and challenged my boss.

chairperson for tmr's passing-out-parade
oh oh.. i dun even know what's going on, except me opening my big mouth and suggested candle-lighting! haha.

it's only friday
i miss my baby so much! they're doing fine at sawang, and God has been wonderful to the team! =)

//posted by ivy @ 16:56//

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

fiance is away on mission trip from today till 22nd apr.
i'm going to miss him so much.

the remaining of the week seems quite busy
wed: grading, going down to ikea to buy stuff for GB's POP
thurs: IG recruitment, vetting of UT qns, marriage prep course
fri: IG recruitment, passover celebration
sat: GB

//posted by ivy @ 13:16//

Monday, April 14, 2008

Homework for this week's marriage prep course is to complete an online personality test. it's a mini version of MBTI and i've done MBTI 3 times since secondary school.
the results never change.. i'm still ESFJ. the only thing that changes is probably the strength of each component.

My character type is ESFJ

Extraverted - Sensing - Feeling - Judging
Strength of preferences (%)
44 - 12 - 75 - 33

Qualitative analysis of your type formula
You are:
- moderately expressed extravert
- slightly expressed sensing personality
- distinctively expressed feeling personality
- moderately expressed judging personality

possible career choice is found here: Career choice

i think i know my own personality rather well; social work and teaching are still the only two career that makes me interested but sadly, i can't go into social work now without the relevant qualification and that explains why i'm here in RP? heh. nursing has once crossed my mind but i'm terribly afraid of hospitals and the sight of people bleeding.. hospitality is one option i never get to choose in university because the course was stopped when i was there..

//posted by ivy @ 18:04//

Saturday, April 05, 2008

wed/thurs
two days of rushing all my work before the semester commences
G252 prob 1 is vetted and totally cleared; i've also done my problem briefing to the facilitators for week 1
G252's test question was thought of in 15 mins of so; it's also cleared vetting committee.
G105 prob 3 is vetted and 90% cleared by vetting committee; some final touch-up to the materials and i'm done
with all these done before thursday 4pm, it was such a huge relief for me.

friday
appointment was 8.10am at HDB Hub and since it was so early, dear came to pick me up,
but because of the massive jam at PIE, we were a little late.
bought insurance, made the relevant payments and signed many, many papers.
we left the place with 30 keys and are now proud owner of our new house!

went over to his place, his dad drove us out for breakfast before heading over to the new place to check it out.
the main door was very stiff and so hard to open but other than that, there wasn't major defects which were outstanding during our time there
will check more in details soon.

rushed down to causeway point to celebrate jacq's birthday; a big group of 13 of us at ishiban sushi!
had a great time over lunch, then it was a long nap at dear's place
i think i'm a pig; he said he tried to wake me up but couldn't. hmm?

headed for dinner with some of the cell ppl then cell
good time of worship - God reminded me again of His faithfulness to me through the songs that He has initially brought to my heart last sunday

sat
GB today was so tiring; having to teach the girls the two dances without breakfast is quite a torture
and as my stomach waited patiently for food at 11am (GB ends that time), captain called for meeting and it ended at 12.45pm!
the whole lot of us then headed to bukit batok for lunch and after i reached home, it was another 4 hrs of nap!

i'm off to iron my pile of clothes (my favourite activity!) before i head to sleep tonight
i'm a little excited for service tmr.. i'm quite sure God has something installed for me! =)

//posted by ivy @ 21:37//

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Colossians 3:5-10; 17 (Worldwide English, New Testament)

"5So then, put to death those things of this world which are in you. I mean these things: wrong sex, things that are not clean, a heart that is burning to do wrong things, wanting what is wrong, and wanting to have what other people have. This last one is like worshipping an idol.

6They are things that make God angry.

7You used to do these things when you lived that way.

8But now you must stop all these: being angry, hating people, wrong feelings toward others, saying wrong things about people, and dirty talking.

9Do not tell lies to one another. You have stopped being the person you used to be who did wrong things.

10And now you have become a new person. That new person is always learning more and more until he becomes like God who made him.

17Whatever you say, or whatever you do, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus."

when things get busy, i often get frustrated with people whom i need to work with if they are making things difficult for me and making me waste time in order to clear up their stuff
sometimes, i wonder why these people have such bo-chup attitude and produce such slipshod work when they are MBA graduates for goodness sake
sometimes, the gals in office and i all agreed that they are just fortunate that they are in an educational sector; educators are more forgiving and accomodating unlike the private sectors.

it's terribly busy today and because of that, i get distracted easily
i'll try to escape from the reality of the pile of work by surfing online, doing other things other than what i'm supposed to do
and i was really exhausted just now while attempting to finish up some slides for sponsorship for two major department event
steven dropped me a line and it was so timely.
it came from colossians 3:17 - Whatever you say, or whatever you do, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus.

i remembered that i want to magnify God in 2008, and truly, in everything that i say or do, i pray that i'll have Christ's likeness in me.

//posted by ivy @ 00:03//