RLs.

Ever wonder what do RLs do when they meet each month? *grins* These pics were taken during the last RL meeting when a few of them were missing. 你们在那里？
Missed Audrey's "dun worry if it happens you'll be the first to know!"
Missed Jenn's "sorry, what did you say again? You mean sow and reap this week or next week? Er can repeat again?"
Missed Cher's Chuckles as she laughed at all the silly jokes that the more mature RLs crack. however, it was still a great time of prayer, looking into the word of God and of course planning for the things ahead with regard to cell ministry. Just as we were all getting serious with the piece of work that P.CX gave us to do; investigating bible scriptures ... Suhui decided to....

Take pictures!!!! This is Xiuqing. Spontaneous! She just smiled and posed.

Our cheeky smile before P.CX comes in and catch us playing. She went away to buy chips for us. So nice right? Well this is pastoral care. I think if I whined hard enough I could have earned a pint of Haagen... ha.

Our dearest Jeraldine. Super studious! I guess she just cannot believe that I can be so distracted!! haaa. She was trying so hard to concentrate on the scripture when I just *pops beside her and posed. She gave in to temptation... ha.

RLs are such fun people right? Anyway here's an appeal if you are reading this. Pray for your leaders. Pray that we will be led by God in every move and decisions that we make so that the ministry is steered in One direction. Pray for empowerment, strength and joy in serving and giving as we have so many other aspects to cope with besides ministry. Pray for wisdom and discernment when we counsel, advise and seek to understand the conditions of our flocks. Pray also for a greater portion of love for Him and our sheep knowing that we have that capacity to love so much more because He first love us. Pray for us. :)

BAO GA LIAO Blogpost.

Last Sat
Met up with P. Cx and shared with her all my woes, sorrows, tears and joys and struggles and pains...those 2 plus hours seemed so insufficient. She left me 2 portions of the scriptures to encourage me and I thought that was apt. Out of 2, this sticked in my head.

Joshua 1:1-7, 9
"....Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go."

Last Sunday
Shaoming: "suhui jie, every sunday I see you rush here, rush there, how come no one help you?"
Shaoming, I'm awaiting for you to come share the load with me man! ;)

Lunch with him was great cos he shared so much, I finally got to know more than just his name. Shaoming is one special boy, I thank God for him in the ministry. If you have yet known him, its time to find out about this incredible creation. :)

Monday
Heart to heart sharing with Cher baby. I like that! Cher sweetie, though we could not spend much time with each other cos of our busy schedules but do realised that its the quality of the sharing that counts. By the way, you are an inspiring teacher! Keep that Uppity Up. ;)

Tuesday
Course at NTU One North. Learnt about practicing Reflection. I learnt alot from this course, cos it teaches teachers to move beyond just making mistakes but learn from it. Wanna hear the 4 steps? Another day perhaps. Rather lenghty.

Whats more beautiful was a 'catch up' session with Azlin. Wow, girl we have so much to talk about huh? Thanks for sharing with me your life. You are one brave soul! Once again I am glad that I am seeing that silver lining in your life. Really happy!!! *beams*

Wednesday
watched CLICK with Yiting, Norman and Rach Lim. Some thoughts after that show:

• What am I really busy with?
• Not like Adam Sadler, I dun think I would have a 2nd chance to live my life for I have only one life to live and I sure pray that in this temporal life, I would sow for eternity.
  

Thursday
Production rehearsal. I really like working with Jasmine. She is really zai! I learned so much from her, being calm! She is one calm lady. :) For some of you who have heard of this production, please keep the actors and com in prayers for its been a long prep and we really need to depend on God's strength to move on effectively. Do pray that this production will be one that will shout loud the fame of GOD!

Friday
Cher and I went to get fat on ICE-cream. EH! We must go for AWFULLY CHOCOLATE! Anyone tried it? I love the Hei ice cream. You have not? Haaaa must join me someday. I have been thinking abt that for the past few days!!! I LOVE HEI!!!

Leave my kid alone!

Today I had one of those moments where I just wanna dash up to the person and do a face to face confrontation. Leave my kid alone! Of course I practiced the counting method.

1 thousand, 2 thousand...

Once again CECILIA strikes 3! What shall I do with this girl? For the past weeks she has been this guai guai little darling and suddenly her little fork tail appeared. This time, SHE RAN OUT OF MY CLASS and head home when I told her to stay behind as I wanted to talk to her about her misbehaviors. Panicked? Na...I sashayed down the stairs and strolled out of the school gate knowing that she would have to wait for her brother to be dismissed from his P1 class before she would head home with her dad. When she saw me she gasped as though she saw a ghost. Spoke to her dad about all that she did and mentioned that for the next 2 recessed she would have it with me *grins* and so he would have to prepare some biscuits for her.

Yesterday she came with me to my clean *a ding *ding workstation during recess and I spoke to her about her anger management issue. So I gave her an alternative method to replace her impulsive "bash people up immediately" solution.

Soowei: Cecilia, when you are angry, before you want fight back, you can try counting 1 thousand, 2 thousand, 3 thousand .... til 20 thousand and after that you would feel better. ok? See if this helps.

Cecilia, agreed to this method and she looked so cute as we tried it. In fact this girl lost count when she reached 17 thousand. Ha...

Yesterday during English lesson:
Jamilah to Cecilia: Eh, you go office, what did Miss Sim tell you?

Cecilia: .... (could not hear what she explained about for the front part) she told me to count 1 thousand, 2 thousand ... and after that I will feel better.

Today after school along corridor:
Soowei to Cecilia: So did you use the counting method yesterday?
Cecilia: Yes!
Soowei: Oh...So. what made you angry?
Cecilia: Nothing.
Soowei: If nothing made you angry then why were you counting?
Cecilia: so that I will not forget.

Haaa... How not to love this little one right? :)
Are you angry today? Try counting 1 thousand, 2 thousand....

TRY-angle

"The best angle from which to approach any problem is the TRY-angle."

- Author Unknown

I miss u 2.

Had to relief teach my beloved 1.3 yesterday and tell you! I was so looking forward to it cos I missed them so much. I mean I thank God for the contract teacher who came and took over my PE lessons from them so that I get more time to mark and all but I can't help but to miss these little ones. Packed my lap top and was getting all ready to share with them one of my favorite stories, "Susan Laughs". To my disappointment, my little sugar cubes and sweetie pies were all not in class!!?! *pouts* Was about to walk back to office disappointedly cos thought I made a mistake about the relief timing. Just then, the teacher next door told me that they went for health check up and jabs.

There goes my story but its alright cos I still get to see them. :) When I approached the class, the kids just exclaimed, "Miss SIM!" My heart smiled and wah I tell you i feel like hugging each and everyone of them man! Then there goes one line that almost made me tear...

Zhi Lei: Miss Sim, I miss you.

Soowei: I miss you too...

You could be an answered Prayer.

"Dear Lord, I pray that You will send people to share the gospel with my dad
bring in christian clients so that while he is driving the taxi,
he can get to hear of the gospel and testimonies too.
For my mum when she is doing marketing or something,
Lord I pray that you will bring people to her be it christians in the market or even our neighbours,
Lord I pray that they will chit chat about You.
Lord provide my brother with christian colleagues
so that he could hear about you once again and be reminded of Your marvelous love. .."

This is the kind of prayers that I make over the years, on and off I will add a few more items and change a few words here and there. Think God is ever bored with this prayer since its been so many years and I am praying the same? Nah! Its testimony TIME!!!

A couple of years back ...

Dad dropped me off church and he picked up some of our church members. They shared the love of Jesus with him and even invited him to church. Now? I am the frequent 'client' so of course I share. ;)

Last year...

Mum told me that there was this neighbour who invited her to a christmas party at the community centre. She is a christian. By the way, she stayed like opposite block. Wonder how they became friends? I have no idea! But God has. :)

Two days back...
Bro asked me about tithing and I asked him how he learnt about it then he told me that there was this supplier who told him. When asked what they talked about, bro just answered me that its all that I have told him. i.e the GOSPEL.

Thank God for answering my prayers. No prayers are too naggy for God. You think your prayers are too simple and repetitive and no one is listening? Think again.

You could be someone's answered prayer too. SHINE FORTH! *Blink Blink* SHARE FORTH!

Glory to Jesus!

Pardon?!

Context: Soowei having her observation and the class was rather quiet. They had just learned the properties of the various triangles. And it was evaluation time.

Soowei: Amira, could you tell me what is special about equilateral triangle?

Amirah: ...A..a.f...e...f..a....af....

Yup basically this girl was speaking so softly that I presumed only the ants could hear her and so I went...

Soowei: Pardon?

At this current moment, Alden decided to raise his hands. Actually, Alden is rather brilliant, so when he raised his hands I thought he wanted to help Amirah with the answer.

Soowei: Yes Alden?

Alden: Miss Sim, who is pardon?

The Lord Shamars over us.

Psalm 121
A song of ascents.

I lift up my eyes to the hills--
where does my help come from?
My help comes from the LORD,
the Maker of heaven and earth.
He will not let your foot slip--
he who watches over you will not slumber;
indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
The LORD watches over you--
the LORD is your shade at your right hand;
the sun will not harm you by day,
nor the moon by night.
The LORD will keep you from all harm--
he will watch over your life;
the LORD will watch over your coming and going
both now and forevermore.

Its time to look beyond the hills, as Pastor Benny Ho proposed in one of his Sermon titles when he preached on this particular scripture. I was just meditating on this scripture and remembered what I heard in his sermon CD while I was in Perth. Wish to be back there where I could wake up in the morning, make breakfast, open the windows and do my no-rush-never-seemed-ending QT while looking at the River. WHOAH! Ok Suhui STOP dreaming.

Anyway back to the Psalm. The Hebrew word "Shamar" means 'keep', 'watches over', 'guards'. This Psalm is very assuring and is one of the 14 Psalms (from 121 - 134) where the Israelites would sing as they journey towards Jerusalem i.e A Song of Ascents. As they journeyed they might have their worries, fears and concerns and am sure they faced mighty mountains be it figuratively or literally. Many a times we face mountains in our lives too and we quiver in fear and journey with complaining or at times we even choose alternative routes cos we think God must have made a mistake in His leading. Is that the point? Nope. If the Lord places a mountain in our lives, the key lesson is not to focus on the Mountain, it should be on the MAKER.

Its really time to look beyond the hills and to marvel at who God is and what He is capable of doing. A timely reminder as I flipped through my sermon notes, "when fear comes knocking at your door, let faith answer it!" I am glad that the Lord Shamars over me, fusses over my every moves and watches my every single step. Truly, Who am I? Nothing but dust. Such grace.

So what is it?!!

Walnuts ---> Much as I might seemed like a ding dong at times but I won't possibly bring a nut cracker to school wld I? So nah...

Shrivelled Kisses ---> This is how disgusting la?! Erm.. NOPE!

Shrivelled Bun ----> Nearly died when I heard it, But Erm.. good try!

Dearest ALL who tried guessing,
Good attempts but wrong guesses. :) These are actually dried FIGS. :)Really delicious and is such a great snack la. If you have yet tried it, get me to bring some for you. Can purchase them from medical halls too. Good source of fibre and wanna get a sugar high? FIGS will do the job! YEah! :)

Is Spelling Important?

A Forwarded Mail.

"fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too Cna yuo raed tihs?
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.

The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at
Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are,
the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.

The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm.

Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the
wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!"

Fireworks.

Just a glimpse of what we saw for 10 whole minutes. WAH! Overwhelmed! Its like having fireworks raining down on ur face. Beautiful. You really have to be there to share the "wah-ness". See you next year. And yes! After tonight Suhui has made a new resolution of wanting to marry a prince. Then I can get married on Benjamin Sheare's Bridge with FIREWORKS!

Fireworks.

Tonight was just beautiful. Cos I hung out with a bunch of beautiful people. Norman, thanks for working this out and bringing us to my FAV. SPOT. AHhhhh!!! I was like wow! when i stood on Benjamin Sheare's bridge tonight. Din know that I could get up there. All along I would wish for the car to stop by and pause for a while longer each time I past by this spot. Personally, i think that view is just captivating!!

This is THE spot! I really wonder why I liked it but i just like it!!! So nice. Wish this pic could have turned out nicer. Oh well...


With a group of beautiful people...


How can we end of the night without food right? Secret Recipe. Marble Cheesecake and Brownie cheesecake highly recommended! YUmmy Slurpy Nicey Oooo!


Rach and Norman. I wonder what pose that was. But Norman... you still look Prei-tee! Ha.


Justin and his puffer fish pose.


Of course a more decent pic. Rach and Moi! Yes Rach. Very pretty! :)

Jesus - My Superman!

I'm holding on to you.

Just a week after the retreat, the Lord showed me a vision which somehow comforted me then and prepares me for now. During worship, I saw myself sinking and crying out, "Jesus rescue me!". I often pray this when I'm faced with situations that I can't solve and feel that things are simply beyond my every human means to make it any better. This prayer was made more often in these couple of years.

When I saw the vision, I was comforted but yet ladened. It seemed to tell me that the worse is yet to come. As I made that prayer in my vision, Jesus did not rescue me. Neither did He pull me out of the 'pit' as I would desperately wanted Him to. Instead, I saw the hand of God and heard, "I'm holding on to you." That very statement meant alot to me cos it comforted me to know that GOd is with me even at times when I can't even see or feel His mighty hands.

I believe everyone has their crosses to bear. Jesus had His and mine is this. No one can carry it on my behalf cos its mine and it would be one which I should consider it pure joy as I face it. Cos its this that would allow me to be more mature and complete as I walk it through with the Lord. If I have a choice I'd rather not carry it, however, over the years, I have learnt to welcome it cos such process is also part of God's plan. If God works for the good of those who loves HIm then what I really need to do is simply to trust and hope in Him for that good which I would need to see with eyes of faith. Frankly, thats how I grew in my worship to God as I no longer worship Him for the gifts but worship Him as the giver; worship Him for who He is, simply God.

Home Sweet Home.

Wonder how is my second home like? A place where I spent nearly 12 hours in...*Tadah*

This is my workstation. Why did i take pictures today? Cos I was marking a pile of compo and yup its definitely unfinished but you know u just need a break after puking much blood....

Here we go...
Haa.. super neat right? I also cannot stand it! Hiak hiak hiak. But just let me intro to everyone this killer word for both teachers, parents and children - WORKSHEETS. There are so much more that my camera can't even capture and of course more in my cupboard. *Wink*

Look at my little MiSSY bag. Thats my pencil case, i bring it to classes and charm my little kids. Haa... since the teacher so cute, i mean the bag should also be right? Matching matching... :)

Whats in the green bag? Its my bag of little surprises? From choxs to biscuits and very soon cards of encouragement ... each month the most well behaved group get to put their hands into this bag to pick out something. I have this class score chart and points will be given for good behavior. No points deducted but just points given to those who are good. So far, this is still working well. Thank God. :) To be frank, the thrill is not the prizes rather its the idea . Cos the items always change. Brilliant eh? Hiak hiak!

Everything seemed purrfect and absolutely beautiful until you look at the left side of my workstation:

Wonder how can anyone have so much 'junk'? Wah! I was very tempted to clear it up after 1 week of being in school...LOL but its not mine, so can't tough. It belongs to the previous teacher who sat at my workstation. Here's more...

Actually, as i took some time to analyse the mess, i see that it is still rather systematic but erm... ya still mess lah. Gosh! However have learnt to live with it. :)

Let me then intro to u my 'snack- at- all- time' that keep me company for marking compos. Do you know what it is? haaa.. if you get it right, you can have a lucky dip in my Greenie. *wink*

Confession.

Yesterday was one of my most stressful days. Not the amount of work, its just thoughts and things that I cannot reconcile within myself and with God as yet. With a ring from carebear friend I dropped everything and yes I meant EVERYTHING and simply dashed out of school for a date with the sweetest friend on earth. Thanks for understanding me so well. :)

Guess where we hanged out after din din? Haagen!!!!???!!!! Ooooooo lala! Not one scoop, but 3!!! of course two of my favs are there.

The true confession comes. I had KFC prior to dinner and dessert. Wah...decadent!

Chia Ee.

Everybody, let me present to you .... *drum roll*Ke chiang* Chia Ee!!! Yay!!!
FIREWORKS.CATCALLS.APPLAUSE. Look at how soundly this beau was sleeping in my arms. :) Cos he was so tired from entertaining all the aunties and uncles who came to visit him last Sun.

Jenn and Seow Wei:
Congrats on being a Mummy and Daddy! And just wanna say that u have one of the most incredible gifts on earth. :) The single word that I would describe him as I took my first glance at him is - beautiful. In every aspect, he is. From that silky hair of his to the cute little toes. GOSH!