HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DADDY!

 

 

 

the hmong mission trip was one of the funnest times of my life! made good friends quickly and i miss them SO much now. i wanna cry.

there's just so much tt happened, i can't list it all down. i'll just write about the impressions i took home after the trip.

the people up there in the mountain, the hmong -- they're so nice and hospitable. they're courteous and polite. most of all, they're tenderhearted. they're tenederhearted to preaching. they're united as a church and they love one another. i used to think they'd be better off in singapore or america, but, no. their lifestyle makes them what they are today, innocent and respectful. all they need is more food, water, clothes, and freedom. they don't need shopping malls or burgers or swimming pools. they'd be so different if they were rich. they wouldn't be happy.

i love them so much. when we were leaving the village, we didn't wanna walk. we didn't wanna go. the girls there, they cried. they cried and stuck their hands into the window of the van hoping to catch one last glimpse of us before we left. they kept saying thank you for coming and God bless you. it was almost too much for me to take. it was so sad. i can still see their faces right now.

during the preaching and invitation, mr. chang asked one question that made me feel so exposed and criminalized. so many hmong ppl were gg up to the alter to pray, some crying, some shutting their eyes so tight and praying so hard. mr. chang said : WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR GOD TODAY? i needed that, so much. another thing tt he said tt hit me was about being a spiritual baby. God knows i've read 1 corinthians 13 like, 1000 times, but never before in that light. i need to put away childish things and start eating some solid bible food. i gotta grow, because ultimately me and God, that's all that's gonna be left. not fitting in, not looking good, not anything. just me and God.

leaving for thailand tonite ! will be back on monday, ya? pray and smile people! <3

YAHHHHHHHH! another kaya-king pickie!  

today was the last of the four draining VBS days! lets look at some hilights. on the first day, i wore a hotpink polo-tee. BIG MISTAKE. weather too hot. i realized tt the class i was helping out in [pri. 1-3] had 60 children in it. tt day i acted as moses' mother and tim was my husband.[grosse] on the second day, i was real busy doing some rewards thing for the kids. junxiong was there and i kept teasing him with much vocal power about something which made him respond quite violently. :) joined the kindies for their games, one of which was catching.they were supposed to catch the teachers. all of them kept patting my butt when they caught me cause they were so short. butt-patting day, whooo! goodness the kindies are soo cute! the third day was watery-wet. it rained. it stopped raining. we played waterbombs. yaoming went. i was quite dry until he bombed me. i got mad and bombed him back. he didn't have an extra shirt i think? heh. my bad. we packed up the classrooms after everything was done to shift all the stuff to bishan where the final day of vbs would be. yaoming can't even lift two classroom tables. muahahahaha! TOODAY! had vbs at jalan pimple ! the kids were so everything! noisy, cute, rowdy, funny, hungry, small-bladdered, sweet, fidgitive. saw some parents, made some small talk, saw my dad talking about me and how old i look. plaayed a whole lot with isaiah [baby] before i left, and i told his mom tt he was real heavy [true]. she said i had to learn the baby carrying method and i had to exersise more, then she squeezed my arm.

ARGH !

hmong trip, here i come! raye bring my clothes nd frech stuff tmr i neeed them !!

ANOTHER WEDDING DAYE! today was so fun, ushering and all. (raye you may nt agree with tt part) seriously, i found it fun, seeing weird ppl and looking weird myself. heee. my day started at 8 when i rolled out of bed to get dressed and ready to go to raye's house. left at 10 and reached jurong at 10:50? round theres. anyways, when i was walking to the busstop the ribbon bow on my dress loosened and flew out. imagine the rest la. in summary today i looked like a total idiot the whole day, be it by dropping bows or getting heels stuck in the drain or by knocking poor old ah mas down with my clutzy giordano bag or by sitting beside a fat man with real bad breath who yawns a whole lot in the train. ahh. fingers tired. heh. the time at the wedding went okays. for my ushering job, i ushered ppl, some willing to be ushered and some plain unwilling. i gave out chocolates. i put up with lame jokes from some guests and lots of stares from the bride's students, and, i smiled a whole lot. probbly more than i wd smile in a week. =) i just hope i looked ok in the dress.....

ANNOUNCEMENT: i know i'm not at all the oficial card maker or anything, but i've been making cards fer church ppl esp lately. this will nt work bcos sometimes i forget some ppl's bdays or i dont have enuff time to make a card so some ppl get cards and some dont. it seems unfair, so i'm nt gonna make anymore cards for church ppl for everyone who wants to sign to sign on from now onwards! wah fingers relly tired.

this past week has been so different -- different from any other kind of week i've ever had. it's been a week of daiper changing and medicine giving. i've never done stuff like that before and it's not very enjoyable. anyway my granny's a lil better now. she's stopped squirting (thank God).
i've been having so much on my mind, and i can't really write. i'm so distracted, like, i can't even sit and do school work without spacing out. goodness, i can't even draw properly. i feel so serious. i feel so deep and strange. i don't feel like writing funny, stupid, lame stories anymore or painting or running or drawing. something's wrong, or maybe just changing.
i really want something to happen on the hmong trip to thailand. something. anything. painting my shoes with glow in de dark paint now .. HEE. gonna wear them there. heard it may be muddy! looking very forward to it. :)
thanks for bothering to read. ciao for now ~