ice-cream, anybody?
it's been almost a year since all 4 of us got together like this? and 5 years since we graduated from sec sch..? haa...
it's been quite a while eh? welcome home, mag...albeit for 2 weeks only
p.s. i couldn't help but note this down. right after we took this shot...
erica: "o you let me have tt photo i help you all photoshop away all the flaws."
aw. so kind of her... -.-" erica ericaaaaaa....
no fear when in Him we trust
"and we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to His purpose......what shall we then say to these things? if God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? it is God that justifieth. who is He that condemneth? it is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? as it is written, for Thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. for i am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, not angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, not depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." romans 8:28,31-39
nothing can separate us from the love of God...nothing. not even the worst (or silliest) thing tt m gng thru now, or ever will. my God is a covenant-keeping God. since it says so in His word, i trust tt it will be so. so Lord, help me remember this always...
if i could turn back time...
been clearing my room for the past 2 days and this evening, i finally came to sorting my letters. i decided to transfer the really old ones into anor box and in the midst of it, i couldn't help but go thru some of those letters. looking at them...i cried and laughed at the same time. at letters written by friends who used to be so close but i barely know now, letterS from a friend who used to sign off as "shelia xie" but over the years, now signs off as "dear". and then i couldn't help but laugh at the stuff tt we used to write on...many acs(i) foolscap papers, postcards, but the best of all was a page torn off a zuo[4] wen [2] bu[4] (chinese composition book with squares) from dear old josiah. i still remember i wrote back using a graph paper for 'revenge'. haha...but wait, then again, there was one written on a receipt! (hais, don't worry mag, i won't tell everyone it was you who did tt)
then there were lovely christmas cards, birthday cards, ang-pows i kept because of the wishes & notes written on them. 1 ang-pow read "big big ang pow for you!" from my 3rd aunt who stuffed a smaller one into this big one cos i had told her she'd better give me a big one (i was obviously talking abt the $) -.-" but a birthday card from beishan & qihui in sec 1 was the one tt really brought back memories. beishan had drawn a picture of 3 of us - all bespectacled & with short-hair...& on the right-hand side was our dear mr chua sticking his head into the card, with finger on his lips, gng "sshhh". guess only beishan & qihui will know wat's so funny abt it when they read this...then again, they don't know of this blog. ha. o well...
if i could turn back time...just "IF"...i would want to go back to my sec sch days...i don't mind the o levels. i just wanna relive my days as a tanglinian, and a almost-hyper-active-never-will-say-m-tired YTFer...
just not impt enough.
maybe becos nobody speaks my love language. or maybe, simply becos nobody bothers to. at least not those whom i hold most dear to me...
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