A Great First Day Of Recovery

I just got to say that I'm enjoying taking leave and spending time at home. *bliss~*

Firstly I recovered from my lost of sleep this morning, cos I slept till 1130am! haha.. That's approximately 10+ hours of sleep! Imagine for the last few days when I was clocking an average of about 5-6 sleep hours, and you'll probably understand why I felt so "recovered". :P

Spent some time to polish up my shoes, changed water for my plants, sayanging my dogs, watching movies, singing my favourite songs, going for my 4km jog, spending quality time with God, and settling some other miscellaneous stuff.

I am truly enjoying myself. (Oh.. and I'm blogging now~ :D)

Recovery

The last month saw me working too hard on a single project, and I fell sick from sore throat, which led to flu, and of course, cough. Even though I tried Sandy's tip called "Ultimate Cure for the Flu & Cold", I am still coughing, albeit slowly recovering. Guess my immune system is pretty whacked. :P

But well, the recovery topic of this post means so much more than just physical recovery.

While I was busy working, quiet time with God was also chewed away. It was especially so for the week that just past, seeing me OT till hours when I am the only one left in the building. I felt detached; being away from Him for too long is never a good thing. :S

So that's possibly why I love serving in my ministry so much, because it brings me close to God every weekend, serving His people, and being amidst my brothers and sisters who all share the same joy with me. :D

I'm talking about THE kind of joy that overflows from deep within your heart, so hard to contain that it feels as if it wants to burst out, warms your nerves and yet chills your spine, and leads your muscles to produce the brightest kind of smile you thought you never had. *lol~* That's the kind of joy I experience when I'm serving God. :)

Watching miracles of healing by the grace of God every Miracle Service also brings refreshing strength to my tired soul. And yesterday was one such night. :)

From the start of the service till the end, I could feel the fresh anointing Spirit of God filling the corners of the sanctuary, and I felt great peace and joy in my heart which I could not feel for the past week.

To top things off, Li Nanxing (李南星) and Chen Tai Ming (陈泰明) also came to our service! It was extremely encouraging when the both of them, being public figures, responded to the salvation call and (re)dedicated their lives to God. From the stage, we could even hear fellow Lighters clapping and cheering! Praise God! :D

This coming week is a special week; I took the entire week off from work! The intention was of course, to prepare for the competition this coming weekend. I must add that this is also a very welcome break, since I truly needed to recover from work fatigue too.

Fitness wise.. sigh... that's also something which I intend to recover back too. When I was not tired, I was sick. When I was not sick, I was tired. Ended up I never had the chance to exercise already. :S So well, this week I'm gonna try to go for morning jogs as well, and slash the slabs around my waist. :D

I'm guessing having good fitness is also good for staying awake 24 hours for the competition. *lol~*

The Indonesian Mimic Octopus

Just something that my colleague forwarded and I thought it was really cool. Utterly fascinated by God's creation. :D

Joy I Can't Contain

These days I've been very tired from work, stress and personal commitments, but this news is very uplifting to me and so, I have to share it (even though it's near 2am already!).

Last Saturday, my cell leader had just proposed to well, my assistant cell leader *lol~*, and she agreed! :D When I first heard the news just a couple of hours ago, I was so filled with joy for them, I just couldn't stop myself from smiling silly. :P

Made my thought lines travel back to roughly about 2 years ago, when I first joined this cell group. Through the months and years I saw how they worked and progressed as a couple, supporting each other through every difficult circumstance.

Realistically speaking, more often than not we hear more of break ups and unhappiness than we hear good news, which is why it's really very encouraging to know about the place they are at now. :)

To see two people who carry the same faith in Christ Jesus tying the knot of happiness, and when it's two people who are so close to me, I'm just in a state of over-saturated sweetness right now (my brain must have released too much endorphins!). It's funny why I'm feeling so happy for them though. haha... It's them who are getting married! Not me! :P

I just pray that God will continue to shower His blessings amply upon the both of them, and that they continue to grow towards Him and towards each other in their many future years to come.

I'm really blessed to have such great news befall on my ears tonight~ :)

I Want To Blog!!!!

And so I did~ *loL~*

It's pretty amazing, but I've already been on my current job for 6 months already! I hate to repeat but it's just so true, time really flies.

In about 4 months and 2 weeks time, I would have officially worked for 2 years already. What have I accomplished, the things that I look forward to, the inspirations and the countless aspirations are the things which I will be reflecting upon. Next year I'll be 25, and it seems to be a great year for greater things to come. :D

In the upcoming 1 and a half months though, I will be entering full throttle in preparation for my competition. It's really taking up a huge part of my time now, as reading and upgrading my skill set becomes an everyday affair. The materials are stacked so high I feel I'm back in school studying for a major exam. haha.. Funny how a little competition can drive me so hard. ;)

Anyway, I kinda finally guessed what kind of blogger am I. Spill-forth-random-thoughts, organise-it-later, and too-lazy-to-slowly-upload-photos type. Not too sure if it's too lazy or too busy regarding the photos part; I can't be sure these days. I get so busy till I just wanna stone around and do nothing. You guys experience that too?

Half of 2008 had passed, if you had new year's resolutions 6 months ago, how's your progress? If no resolution, then nothing much to think about since there's nothing being thought at the beginning of the year anyway. *loL~*

For myself, I'm glad that I'm still progressing in the direction that I pursued, and in my walk with God too. Would just want to thank God for seeing me through all the tough and trying times, and showing me that His faithfulness is so real. :)

Praise God!

Survived The Mad Rush

After 2 weeks of intense studying and application of new programming languages, I finally survived the mad rush. *phew*

But of course, it's not entirely "the end" yet. There's still plenty of stuff that I wanna touch up on before delivering it this Friday, and there's also the possibilities of more changes to come. No matter how tough it had been (which caused me to fall sick over the weekend), I'm glad I went through it. I feel so much more equipped as a web developer now. *lol~*

Anyway, time is really zooming pass now la. It's just another 2 months (gasp!) before code::Xtreme::Apps and I still have yet to get started with my learning yet. Time is running short, so blogging will also be cut down to a minimum (hopefully not stand still). :(

From the current project however, the intense study schedule that I had kinda set the motivation off. I began to enjoy hitting books again, and I don't want this fire to die off just yet. Better harness it to study more (can you see I'm really worried about not being well equipped? :P).

Regarding the photos from Japan... ... ... ... ...*lol~*

I'm Already Back

Just in case that you guys are thinking that I'm still having an awesomely good time in Japan, well I'm actually back since Tuesday already. *lol~*

Very busy once back ah, had to settle the luggage, pack stuff for work, do this do that, oh gosh~ And when I went back to office on the first day, got shining new project came in already!

Project's deadline is super tight however, and it's a language I'm not very familiar with. So these days I'm like crash-coursing through multiple tutorials and reading as much articles as I can to pick the language up. Real intense stuff!

Due to the above factor, I will not be able to post any photos anytime soon. Will try my best la, but earliest seems to be at least 2 weeks later. :S

Try try la hor.. :P