the last lap is usually hardest to run.

I just got home. met up with guen who's back from australia! thanks gal for your gifts. :) i especially love the green studs! i went to j8 to meet her, realised how much the place has changed. then we went to catch up at starbucks. followed by dinner with my jc friends at suntec marche. shared a jumbo sausage and wedges with guen. salty, but nice!

my relatives from malaysia are here. so far, 2 families have joined us in the span of 1 month! ya know why? cos AirAsia now flies direct from Miri to Johor, so it's cheaper to come to Singapore. heh. they'd be leaving tmr. i've been spending my time after exams showing them arnd. brought them to walk around the city and they slept 12 hrs the next day. totally knocked out! cos M'sian folks drive around a lot, unlike urban folks.

yesterday i was talking to terrence yong ke yi on the way home after cg. prefer calling him ke yi. we were reminiscing how we got to know each other 6 years ago. it was thru IRC (Internet Relay Chat). do kids still do that nowadays? then we didn't realised we were actually in the same cg til one day he heard someone calling my name. haha!

so we were mulling over the things to come. multiplication, move to expo. well i think it's new opportunities, new seasons. about taking it in your stride. i remember the same time last year in 2004. w263 just multiplied to w311. then some people were encouraging me to rise up to cg leadership. pst yk even asked when am i gonna be a cgl. but somehow, that din come to pass. i myself even wondered, could this be my time? but God had other plans, and in the course of the year, many things took place. of cos, i could have sat there and be disappointed at why God passed me by, why was a carrot dangled at my nose and removed. God's timing is always perfect. i realised i was still very incompetent. the vessel still had to go through moulding and fire. and wonderful doors of learning came. i attended SWAT, and i grew thru this course like nv before. i was also given a chance to serve as transport leader. taught bible lessons in the bus, conducted games, learnt how to contain rowdy crowds, capacity for overwhelming kids. training training! initial discouragement but now great great appreciation to wad God has brought me thru. journeys are nv wasted. be willing to submit to God's moulding.

and so, i turned to ke yi and asked, 'if we were sitting at the same bus stop in 3 years time, how do u think we wld be?' he told me, 'we might not be together in the same cg, but we wld be in the same meeting.' i replied, 'yeah! leaders' meeting!'. God has given me a vision. it tarries, but it will come to pass! give me the grace to be steadfast to what i have been called for.

so i end with a snippet of my conversation with my long time friend. keep on keeping on! good night :)