few things on my mind:

HOGC experience is coming up next week & it is truly an experience!! 

love the whole growing process, but really love the team as well. feel very privileged to be chosen to work it out the first time round. there are certain people that really makes me happy to work with too, i.e evonne! she is so amazing & whoever marries her will be so blessed! heh kidding! :) but really, seeing how Pastors is so personally involved in the entire process when they could so simply called garrett & yassy to run the whole thing makes me so proud. our Pastors always trains the next generation & i know it because they chose a totally new batch of people to run this whole thing. i'm glad i have Pastors who believe in me, who believe in new people, who builds people up from scratch. that is the heart of God church experience, i wished Pastor Jamaal could see all of this. THIS is the heart of heart of God church, it is the heartbeat of God, the heartbeat of Pastors.. love my Pastors :)

on the pastoral end, d1 is amazing in it's own ways & i really love the whole dynamics. there's a strength within & i can't explain why!

huishan, beryl, mabel, huimin, cherie, jerlyn, alvina, pollyna, wanting, samteo, jovina, joy wee, colin, marcus, jin kiat, cheng ming, felicia, howteng, eunice, jerome. - you guys are amazing!!! 

thank you for always holding up the people when i'm not around, thank you for your never-ending sowing into the people's lives no matter however tired you are, however broke you are, however busy you are.. d1 will never be where it is today if not for you guys.

andy kan is one person that made me really happy throughout the past week because i saw how he changed. he woke up at 5am last sunday because he had to come for the 630am BMT & he was on for projection duty. but it wasn't just about that.. it is the way i see a sparkle in his eyes once more. it is that familiarity all over again and i feel like i know him and i really really do now. there's no more holding back, constricted thoughts, tugging of feelings etc. it is all so God and i really love this clarity. i don't know if you'll ever see this but thank you andy for making the decision to fight for God :)

deborah msg-ed me the other day & asked me if i could disciple her because she was impacted by what garrett shared during BMT about discipleship.. i saw it & i was so moved. hey, when someone approaches you for discipleship, that person is serious about growing spiritually in the house of God! i'm so proud & happy :)

there's many others rising up & they all make things happen so it's all very good. sam woo has broken out of her quiet self and has been talking so much nowadays i love it! joy wee tried to master how to make a strawberry shortcake 3 times in a week so she could give it to lynette before she left for LA.. 

jovina called up her whole class one by one to ask them if she could shift the remedial day away from friday when she realised she could not make it for the leaders meeting at 730pm as she had a remedial at that time. sam teo did not ask her to do it but she took her own initiative to call them up one by one, and then told her teacher after that to move the remedial to another day when the class can make it.. SHE CAME FOR LEADERS MEETING THAT DAY!!!

the entire CEG came together to hold a bday celebration for jin kiat & he brought 13 new friends on that day! marcus planned the whole celebration despite the fact that his bday was just next to jin kiat's bday but he selflessly planned for jin kiat instead of his own! 

i love how we are one family despite being a hundred. i love how we all love God and love people. i love it how we all love Pastors and honour them. i love how at the end of the day, the people blend in so well & there's such a great culture and DNA. love God, love people!

having e odds is so cool because you get to hang out with the people & you constantly see God's hand upon their lives. just took the worship session earlier with the leaders & i teared at the very first part of the meeting because God spoke so clearly to me where all this was going. it's pure faithfulness & commitment to carry on this wednesday routine for the past 5 months at the very least, but God was building them.. & that's all that matters. i love doing the grind, i love spending time with them in God's presence, bringing them back to Him.. God moves, God really does!

& that is how i'm going to do it.. meeting the prcs group weekly to pray & seeing their lives get changed by God. i know He has a plan for this school & i'm anticipating a revival. just hearing them talk about how they secretly lay hands on their friends and pray for them silently makes me excited. prayer sparks off revivals, we just need to believe in that!

have been spending so much time with the leaders as well & just believing for them to catch the intangibles. mondays are really "spend time with people" days. daniel tay is our monday buddy because he loves late nights with garrett.. chloe, maryse, adri, jemquek comes along whenever they are free so that is really good. 

so you see, there are no secret formulas at all. it's really all about the people. when you start to live your life thinking for them, things start to change. God's heart is always for them and we just need to see it that way. i love it when there is a touch of God upon all that we do. 

of course, the good old times with jiayi, yolanda, samteo, felicia are the best. hung out with them at holland v's crystal jade that day and we just talked and talked about everything in our lives. i love jiayi so much & i always get excited when i see her, like literally i get excited, i jump up, & i run towards her! ha ha ha. love hanging out with these people because they are long time friends man! 5 years!!! can't believe jiayi is leaving for london again soon.. :( somehow this time round when she came back, i felt so much closer to her.. so that means i'm really going to miss her when she is gone.. ahhh. can't wait for end of year when she is back again!! :)

last but definitely not the least.. i've often told people that there are 2 G's in my life that i cannot live without - God & Garrett. it has always been this way & it will stay the same. i'm really so glad for garrett because he gives the best advice all the time. i'm so glad for him because he is the only one who is so brutally honest with me.. i'm so glad for him because he will pray with me, inspire me about reading.. i'm so glad for him because he is the only one who'll eat supper with me at 3am, go for breakfast at 9am, surprise me with salads etc. :) also very proud of him because he has changed so much from the person he was last year to the person he is right now.. still can recall all those noob moments we had last year HAHAHAHA seriously funny :) but anyway, he's the best of the best! righto! now i just need to psycho him to go exercise with me more often!!! he has this secret plan to make me lose weight by reaching church at 1055am every morning so i have to run up & clock in by 11am!! evil evil plan!! ha ha ha!

but seriously speaking, i'm so glad for garrett because he is the only one who will go crazy with me in the morning to buy balloons to surprise people. he's the only one who will travel with me to one end of singapore to buy food to surprise other people. ah, it's this whole surprising thing which many people cannot catch up with, BUT HE CAN! :) YEAH. so that's a bonus plus plus point :) love God, love Garrett! 

so that's all the things that's going on in my life right now! tried to summarize it as close to my heart as possible, alright gonna read "chasing the dragon" now! BYE!

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