Saturday, June 1, 2013

An Extraordinary but Unexpected Two Months

Since I left off in early March, much had taken place. Firstly, our Gospel sharing sessions on the 29 and 30 March (Good Friday and Easter Sunday) saw many giving their lives to Christ. We were rejoicing with the new believers who approached and wanted to know more of our stories. An encouragement was a sister even approached me to buy my CD. Upon hearing I have not released any, I could feel her disappointment. Thank God for bringing more sponsors to support the Paradise Kingdom team. Bonafides Beauty was the latest addition to come on board. Each of us was given ten sessions of skin care with products and haircare. My appreciation to Ms Sylvia's generosity.
In March, Sleep-Ezy also supported us in which we gave our testimonies about two weeks ago, having used the pillow for about three months. With this pillow, I am now able to enjoy uninterrupted sleep and am able to drift at ease into lala land. Work with Whizheartz Edu-Centre gave me lots of opportunities to meet and made new friends. I was rewarded with the first pay check from the wonderful Minds from Lenny who I helped to co-ordinate the preview session of the Fingerprint signs at the Singapore Management University in early April. This came about after Mr Carl Lim wrote an article in LianHeZaoBao on 26 March. The responses was overwhelming, which even surprised Ms Leny herself. DiD will be holding the Concert in Darkness (CID) which evolved from the inaugural Music an the Dark (Mid) last year. This year, I took on a more proactive role as one of the performers. With Kelvin as my coach, I saw a tremendous improvement in my vocal prowess and technique. Of course, all these improvements would not have been possible without the patient coaching of XiaHui laoshi too. While Kelvin trained me to sing like an artiste of the 90s, my confidence had been boosted with each practice session. Just went through the second formal assessment yesterday, a result I was rather satisfied with, after all the unintentional yelling and shouting, taking a group of secondary students who were told by their teacher they were a bunch of students with no hope, now that they were condemned into the Normal Technical Stream. I was appalled upon hearing this. I used my personal story to hopefully encourage them to pursue their dreams and ambitions. As teachers nowadays attain better education, their role is to promote learning, encouragement and boosting the confidence of students instead of demoralising and condemning them. What kind of training the National Institute of Education and Ministry of Education give to so-called potential educators? My trip to visit Mike was postponed till God knows when especially as he is busy these days. Viola had resigned from FCBC with the intention to return to Hong Kong to be with her family. I wish her well in her future endeavours. I accompanied her to see doc Tham for the final time to ensure all's well on 14 May. As little Jayden was been awarded there, dropped in to pay him a visit. I was glad to learn that he had recovered from a persistent fever. He was back to his cheerfrul self again. My mom, brother and sister took a short trip to the Ghenting Highlands from 7-9 May in which I was running the show at the home front, constantly calling home to check on the FDW, especially when we were out at work. Thank God for protection for nothing major cropped up. On 26 May, with the dedication of Jeremy and Sharon, I took on Acrylic painting as a new learning journey. Although it was meant to be an abstract form of painting, my Facebook friends complimented me for an excellent job and could make up it was a stalk of lily, which is still blooming in my home. I am eagerly looking forward to the next painting session. I was thrilled when the manager of the Arteastiq at Mandarin Gallery asked to take a photo of the painting. Thank God for such a fabulous opportunity that I now can play with colours which has been one of my dreams. Since a child. I was given crayons, colour pencils and magic pens to play with but was never taught that they could create wonders. I rejoiced with KaiYu who told me that she attained an A1 score for her literature paper in the mid-term exams. This is a great booster as I am now more confident to take more students should the opportunity come by. Tilda also did quite well, despite only having two lessons. I joined Colette and her family for a concert at the Esplanade Concert Hall on 19 April by the Holam Gospel Singers from the USA. We were greatly blessed and ministered by the songs and their way of presentation. Even her niece had a fun time too. I'll end off this post with a sad note in which two friends were taken into Glory, Andrew on the 25 April and Wendy Ng, 30 April. Although we felt these were untimely deaths, who can fathom the Wisdom of God? I nearly recessed into depression, wrote to Doc Tham led to believe I was going through perimenopause. Thank God he rescued me in time. I believe that when I write the next post, my trigger finger would be healed . Shall end here for now.Till the next post.....