2008年实在是一个该感恩的一年。
年头，我和珮宣结了婚。过后就到纽西兰度蜜月。真好玩。自己也体验到了，神伟大的创造。
回来后不久，公司就安排我到Sydney公干两个星期。在那段时间里能和在那里居住的亲戚见面。太太也在那里陪了我一个星期。也蛮好玩的。最高兴就是能够与亲戚见面。
回到新加坡后，糟糕，工作忙起来了。但仍然神眷顾。祷告会，主日学教导，团契，崇拜，诗班仍没有缺席。
忙到了六月份，感谢主！太太怀孕了！心里又感激又欢喜。
前三月的怀胎期真不容易。若不是神的眷顾，人的眷顾就枉然劳力。但凭着神的看守，终于度过了前三月的怀胎期！
八月发现到我及格了CFA level two。真没想到会及格。但应该是不会再继续读了。也就在这期间，美国许多的投资银行开始倒塌。累积了好几年的经济繁荣泡沫终于被穿破了。也在当中看到泡沫是因为人自己的贪引起了百物高涨而造成的。认为什么物价会起。认为越不能测透的经融产品赚钱。认为越多贷款来赚更多的钱越实际。因此，从未见过的经济市场倒塌就发生在我们的眼前。
十二月-感谢神能够参加实乃断宣。太好玩了。而且又学习到儿童侍奉和各人布道，并看到神自己预备的果子。
在这月里也要感恩的是虽然经济衰退，工作仍然稳定。也看到前面的道路神预备。
当然不忘了每个星期能够教导可爱的少年人们主日学。整个过程当中也也在圣经里的话造就到自己。
主的恩典样样都要数！主的恩典都要记清楚！必能叫你惊讶立时了欢呼。
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
新年蒙恩！
刚刚下载了谷格（google）的中文拼音输入工具。哈哈。觉得他比windows的输入法好多了！就让我用华文来写这个部落格输入吧！
新年将来临了。很期待。也很紧张，因为。。。快要当爸爸了！但靠着神的力量，和恩惠，我会学习做个好爸爸的！
时间要到了。即将要去锡安楼开青年团契会议了！过后就是守岁礼拜，在神的家过年。
新年蒙恩！再见了！
如果你要试试谷格（google）的中文拼音输入工具，请到以下的网址下载。
ps：http://www.google.com/ime/pinyin/index.html
新年将来临了。很期待。也很紧张，因为。。。快要当爸爸了！但靠着神的力量，和恩惠，我会学习做个好爸爸的！
时间要到了。即将要去锡安楼开青年团契会议了！过后就是守岁礼拜，在神的家过年。
新年蒙恩！再见了！
如果你要试试谷格（google）的中文拼音输入工具，请到以下的网址下载。
ps：http://www.google.com/ime/pinyin/index.html
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Hello Caleb!!
Hello Caleb!
You are going to arrive in about 1.5 to 2 months time! I hope i can carry you well and bring you up into a fine boy! Growing in stature and in favour with man and God.
I also pray to God that i can help mummy ensure your smooth and safe delivery and both you and mummy will be fine.
Looking forward to holding you Caleb!
You are wonderfully and fearfully made by the grace and mercy of God!
You are going to arrive in about 1.5 to 2 months time! I hope i can carry you well and bring you up into a fine boy! Growing in stature and in favour with man and God.
I also pray to God that i can help mummy ensure your smooth and safe delivery and both you and mummy will be fine.
Looking forward to holding you Caleb!
You are wonderfully and fearfully made by the grace and mercy of God!
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Senai Mission Chapel on Google Maps
Just some extract of google maps of Senai Mission Chapel below,
Zooming in...
And the area which we gave out tracts as well personal evangelism are demarcated by the red bold lines.
Thank God! Will hopefully write a proper blog entry on the wonderful experience!Thursday, November 06, 2008
唐崇榮 - 信仰難題有問必答
Very very very edifying. This is part 1 of Rev Tong's Q & A. Do go on to the succeeding parts. Think up to part 31...
Monday, November 03, 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Dear Baby
Dear Baby,
Felt you kick for the very first time today. Very excited and happy to feel you. Haha, and you did it on my birthday too. Haha, though mummy has been feeling you for a while already, it was my first time feeling you, thought I was abit sleepy haha.
Look forward to welcoming you to this world wonderfully created by God. Do continue to grow well ok and keep Mummy happy and safe.
Dad
Felt you kick for the very first time today. Very excited and happy to feel you. Haha, and you did it on my birthday too. Haha, though mummy has been feeling you for a while already, it was my first time feeling you, thought I was abit sleepy haha.
Look forward to welcoming you to this world wonderfully created by God. Do continue to grow well ok and keep Mummy happy and safe.
Dad
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Why I do not support the US USD 700 billion bailout plan.
Why I do not support the US USD 700 billion bailout plan.
I support that the government rescues the ailing economy by injecting money into it.
I sympathize with the Americans that they are in risk of losing their jobs and need a jab in the economy.
I am fine with the amount being USD700 billion, the nation probably needs that.
Why I do not support is, where this USD 700 billion is being put into!
It is to buy toxic assets which are in the balance sheets of wall street companies. Basically transferring toxic assets from these companies to the US govt, which is in turn and we already know, funded by tax payers.
The greed that had caused these wall street companies to buy these assets have caused them to end up in this state. Many of the employees of these companies have for the past years benefitted from fat bonuses and salaries. Why as tax payers do they have to ensure that these people continue (albeit lower pay packages) at the expense of still ailing citizens still recovering from inflation, hurricanes and losing investments?
Yes the economy has to have a fiscal injection of money from the government. But not to buy toxic assets from these fallen-from-grace companies. These companies as severe to say, have to face a year of losses. But these 700b has to be spent properly, in education, in medical welfare, in ensuring the old’s retirement benefits, in the providence of the not so well to do, in recovery from people impacted by natural disasters, in the continuing fight against terrorism. Not in saving companies who have avert these losses on to themselves, leveraging to get better losses, basically greed when the upturn was on, borrowing to get more profits which resulted in the state they are in today when it turned out that money has to come from a solid root cause, not some nice sweet AAA wrapper around dung that people thought cost $$$.
These companies have to face the consequences of hindsight blinded by greed.
700b is a mighty lot of money. Dividing it to all Singaporeans assuming 4 million population, each one of us, baby, elderly, adult will get what? 180,000 sing dollars.
Ok, the above is just an illustration of how much 700b is. But the point is, the economy can still be saved by the govt’s injection of money as illustrated above, where more job opportunities will be created, and more importantly, tax payers, people, children getting assisted directly through this fiscal spending. And this will helping the ailing economy in the indirect, natural free market way albeit taking a longer time as compared to spending directly to in-the-red companies, tax payers not benefitted, top executives who made wrong decision to go scot-free without the punishment in economic sense, and the govt. left as a toxic dump. Not much better than a landfill waste.
US Fed Reserve Chairman Ben mentioned that as markets recover, tax payers might even benefit from profits in the toxic assets. Key word is might.
First Point. No guarantee that markets will recover
Second Point. No guarantee that toxic assets will profit. In fact, extremely low probability.
It is really bad to make such a probability based statement using words like ‘likely’,’might’ in front of congress, in front of the world and considering the seriousness of the issue. One has to at this point be extremely definite about it and certain.
Hence I disagree with this bailout plan on two fronts.
700 b not spent on the proper avenues, and the people who made the mistakes have to face the consequence. Well facing the consequence is not like being placed in jail or something, but you might be sacked, retrenched, yes, but it allows you the time to reflect on things. Reflect on what he/she have been doing for the past few years, betting on complicated derived hollow business models to make money. Money in the end state, has to come from a solid base. And upon reflection, stand up, understand something not based on fundamentals will one day come crashing down.
Now spend the 700b yes! But on more the people! For the people! Not for greedy companies!
I support that the government rescues the ailing economy by injecting money into it.
I sympathize with the Americans that they are in risk of losing their jobs and need a jab in the economy.
I am fine with the amount being USD700 billion, the nation probably needs that.
Why I do not support is, where this USD 700 billion is being put into!
It is to buy toxic assets which are in the balance sheets of wall street companies. Basically transferring toxic assets from these companies to the US govt, which is in turn and we already know, funded by tax payers.
The greed that had caused these wall street companies to buy these assets have caused them to end up in this state. Many of the employees of these companies have for the past years benefitted from fat bonuses and salaries. Why as tax payers do they have to ensure that these people continue (albeit lower pay packages) at the expense of still ailing citizens still recovering from inflation, hurricanes and losing investments?
Yes the economy has to have a fiscal injection of money from the government. But not to buy toxic assets from these fallen-from-grace companies. These companies as severe to say, have to face a year of losses. But these 700b has to be spent properly, in education, in medical welfare, in ensuring the old’s retirement benefits, in the providence of the not so well to do, in recovery from people impacted by natural disasters, in the continuing fight against terrorism. Not in saving companies who have avert these losses on to themselves, leveraging to get better losses, basically greed when the upturn was on, borrowing to get more profits which resulted in the state they are in today when it turned out that money has to come from a solid root cause, not some nice sweet AAA wrapper around dung that people thought cost $$$.
These companies have to face the consequences of hindsight blinded by greed.
700b is a mighty lot of money. Dividing it to all Singaporeans assuming 4 million population, each one of us, baby, elderly, adult will get what? 180,000 sing dollars.
Ok, the above is just an illustration of how much 700b is. But the point is, the economy can still be saved by the govt’s injection of money as illustrated above, where more job opportunities will be created, and more importantly, tax payers, people, children getting assisted directly through this fiscal spending. And this will helping the ailing economy in the indirect, natural free market way albeit taking a longer time as compared to spending directly to in-the-red companies, tax payers not benefitted, top executives who made wrong decision to go scot-free without the punishment in economic sense, and the govt. left as a toxic dump. Not much better than a landfill waste.
US Fed Reserve Chairman Ben mentioned that as markets recover, tax payers might even benefit from profits in the toxic assets. Key word is might.
First Point. No guarantee that markets will recover
Second Point. No guarantee that toxic assets will profit. In fact, extremely low probability.
It is really bad to make such a probability based statement using words like ‘likely’,’might’ in front of congress, in front of the world and considering the seriousness of the issue. One has to at this point be extremely definite about it and certain.
Hence I disagree with this bailout plan on two fronts.
700 b not spent on the proper avenues, and the people who made the mistakes have to face the consequence. Well facing the consequence is not like being placed in jail or something, but you might be sacked, retrenched, yes, but it allows you the time to reflect on things. Reflect on what he/she have been doing for the past few years, betting on complicated derived hollow business models to make money. Money in the end state, has to come from a solid base. And upon reflection, stand up, understand something not based on fundamentals will one day come crashing down.
Now spend the 700b yes! But on more the people! For the people! Not for greedy companies!
Monday, September 22, 2008
Goodbye Investment Banks.
Goodbye Investment Banks.
You certainly made the world go round when you were around for these 20 odd years. Simple stocks were not enough. You had to wrap some weird filthy stuff up in nice little wrappers, stamp an AAA on them, give them complicated names, and shared them with the world.
Once upon a time when jobs from you were most coveted, people just couldn’t fathom the amount of money that you generated. It was incredibly crazy and unimagineable just how you earned at a rate more than the minting machine could make.
Now, back to the good old days of using deposited money instead of some weird source of borrowed money. Goodbye Investment Banks.
Ha ha..just a funny ‘poem’ about our dear wall street financial institutions and the dire state they are in now. Sometimes, we really have to get a real job instead of ‘deriving’ from real jobs. Punt intended.
Sorry if the above post may seem weird, its really suppose to, like the way these guys have functioned for the last few years. ;p
Matthew 24:35 “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.”
Oh ya, recorded some sermon summaries from Rev Tong's gospel rally and prayer meeting sermons. Hopefully will persist in adding these precious, precious, precious messages as we go along.
You certainly made the world go round when you were around for these 20 odd years. Simple stocks were not enough. You had to wrap some weird filthy stuff up in nice little wrappers, stamp an AAA on them, give them complicated names, and shared them with the world.
Once upon a time when jobs from you were most coveted, people just couldn’t fathom the amount of money that you generated. It was incredibly crazy and unimagineable just how you earned at a rate more than the minting machine could make.
Now, back to the good old days of using deposited money instead of some weird source of borrowed money. Goodbye Investment Banks.
Ha ha..just a funny ‘poem’ about our dear wall street financial institutions and the dire state they are in now. Sometimes, we really have to get a real job instead of ‘deriving’ from real jobs. Punt intended.
Sorry if the above post may seem weird, its really suppose to, like the way these guys have functioned for the last few years. ;p
Matthew 24:35 “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.”
Oh ya, recorded some sermon summaries from Rev Tong's gospel rally and prayer meeting sermons. Hopefully will persist in adding these precious, precious, precious messages as we go along.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Ranting 16th july
Ok ok...you guys probably already know it, but if you don't, here's the ahem..shocker. yes my wife's 'you le'. Thank God for children are a gift from Him.
Bad news is that she has to stabilize her condition more and is currently a week of m.c. Have to be confined to bed rest and absolutely no load lifting, walking about too much etc etc.
The confines of growing up to more and more adult like responsibilities have been indeed abit too much to take sometimes. But its part of moulding i guess. And of course and that we can leave any burdens to the Lord.
Work now is realli quite hectic and it is not really to my enojoyment. I seldom wanna talk abt work but this time round, its like...abit overwhelming at times. But taking it in stride and step by step and definitely by relying on God, I get by well.
Have been interpreting much more now in church and i've kinda enjoy it. Though the nervous bugs till bite me when i start to step into unfamiliar ground. To all budding interpreters! Interpret that thru you, others are edified (they can understand), and bringing them to God. Simple as that.
Its been so long since i have last blogged and so many things have happened in the world, sichuan, myanmar, oil price, zimbabwe, catholic priest in scandal,...i wld like to comment on each one by probably just to lazy to type it down. sure thing that i wld comment if face to face discussion. =)
Please treat the above as just my ranting, its like 2am and I can't get to sleep so i am just anyhow bloggin out my thoughts which are highly subjective and prone to changes hahahah...
Bad news is that she has to stabilize her condition more and is currently a week of m.c. Have to be confined to bed rest and absolutely no load lifting, walking about too much etc etc.
The confines of growing up to more and more adult like responsibilities have been indeed abit too much to take sometimes. But its part of moulding i guess. And of course and that we can leave any burdens to the Lord.
Work now is realli quite hectic and it is not really to my enojoyment. I seldom wanna talk abt work but this time round, its like...abit overwhelming at times. But taking it in stride and step by step and definitely by relying on God, I get by well.
Have been interpreting much more now in church and i've kinda enjoy it. Though the nervous bugs till bite me when i start to step into unfamiliar ground. To all budding interpreters! Interpret that thru you, others are edified (they can understand), and bringing them to God. Simple as that.
Its been so long since i have last blogged and so many things have happened in the world, sichuan, myanmar, oil price, zimbabwe, catholic priest in scandal,...i wld like to comment on each one by probably just to lazy to type it down. sure thing that i wld comment if face to face discussion. =)
Please treat the above as just my ranting, its like 2am and I can't get to sleep so i am just anyhow bloggin out my thoughts which are highly subjective and prone to changes hahahah...
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Why can't I?
Just added my minutes on Pastor Teo's sharing on "Why can't I?".
Please go to http://sundayschoolz.blogspot.com/
Please go to http://sundayschoolz.blogspot.com/
四川
对不起。真的很久没有blog了。要和各位分享以下的短访问(thanks to Uncle Victor)。是和一个在四川christian relief worker.
短短的访问在次的提醒我们人很软弱,很有限，生命不再我们的掌权之下。
要信耶稣，神有他美好的安排。
http://upload2.net/page/download/NStg08MBIFsCF21/qingting.mp3.html
继续为着受灾民祷告！
短短的访问在次的提醒我们人很软弱,很有限，生命不再我们的掌权之下。
要信耶稣，神有他美好的安排。
http://upload2.net/page/download/NStg08MBIFsCF21/qingting.mp3.html
继续为着受灾民祷告！
Saturday, April 19, 2008
BBN Radio
Check out the below 福音电台
http://www.bbnradio.org/wcm4/tabid/3104/Default.aspx
Can just listen from anywhere as long as you have an internet connection.
Its really edifying, with sermons, prayers and hymns.
http://www.bbnradio.org/wcm4/tabid/3104/Default.aspx
Can just listen from anywhere as long as you have an internet connection.
Its really edifying, with sermons, prayers and hymns.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
A good word from God
Proverbs 12:25 "Anxiety in a man's heart weighs it down, But a good word makes it glad."
Care, fear, and sorrow, upon the spirits, deprive men of vigour in what is to be done, or courage in what is to be borne. A good word from God, applied by faith, makes the heart glad.
So do not worry about tomorrow;
for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Matthew 6:34
Care, fear, and sorrow, upon the spirits, deprive men of vigour in what is to be done, or courage in what is to be borne. A good word from God, applied by faith, makes the heart glad.
So do not worry about tomorrow;
for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Matthew 6:34
Monday, February 25, 2008
Good bye Sam
When I first joined CS, a british accented chinese sat near me. Becoz I sat near him, I always got to hear him speak. And it was really fascinating, to see a chinese speak in perfect british accent. He was of vietnam accent but guess his family moved over to London. Not only was it nice to hear him speak, but as he handled issues, management of projs, it was quite an experience to witness all that.
I do not know him personally and never got a chance to speak to him. It was just me observing him from far. A month or so later, i moved to another location and thus was the end of our close proximity.
Today I received a mail ,
"I was told the sad news yesterday that Thang Sam died in the early hours of Thursday morning. As many of you know he has fought a brave battle against cancer for the last year or so. Thang has been an important and very popular member of Risk IT for as long as I can remember. In 2006 he agreed to move from his management role on Insight in London to head up the Credit Risk IT deployment in Singapore. It was during his time in Singapore that he was diagnosed with liver cancer. He was very brave indeed in the face of this news and carried on working for a long time whilst undergoing treatment. Eventually however in mid 2007, he had to return to UK to go on long term disability. He leaves a wife and two young children."
I was immediately down spirited for the whole morning. I pray that in God's sovereignity, might he be saved and may his family be preserved and guided by our all powerful all loving God.
I do not know him personally and never got a chance to speak to him. It was just me observing him from far. A month or so later, i moved to another location and thus was the end of our close proximity.
Today I received a mail ,
"I was told the sad news yesterday that Thang Sam died in the early hours of Thursday morning. As many of you know he has fought a brave battle against cancer for the last year or so. Thang has been an important and very popular member of Risk IT for as long as I can remember. In 2006 he agreed to move from his management role on Insight in London to head up the Credit Risk IT deployment in Singapore. It was during his time in Singapore that he was diagnosed with liver cancer. He was very brave indeed in the face of this news and carried on working for a long time whilst undergoing treatment. Eventually however in mid 2007, he had to return to UK to go on long term disability. He leaves a wife and two young children."
I was immediately down spirited for the whole morning. I pray that in God's sovereignity, might he be saved and may his family be preserved and guided by our all powerful all loving God.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Writing Down
Surprise, surprise...
"CS has written $2.85 billion off the value of its asset-backed investments and found mismarking and pricing errors on its books, it revealed on Tuesday, sending its shares plummeting."
It was first Julius Bear, then Merill Lynch, then Citi...and sub prime blood was soon all over markets. But the thing that pissed me off is not that CS is writing off a loss, the thing that pissed me off was the timing it did that.
Time and again it reported that '07 3rd quarter, 4th quarter had earnings despite writing downs (of which are not so big a magnitude). And it had to wait till 1st quarter to announce the big bath write down.
Surely it would have its balance sheet tidied up way back in '07 right? I mean where's the integrity of the company? Why wait till now for this big write down?
Whoever is being this decision, reputation has indeed fell deep down in the pit. Let's wait till the next can of worms pops up.
Sorry about my ranting, but I am really quite disappointed about the integrity of the company here...which I always thought was respectable.
"CS has written $2.85 billion off the value of its asset-backed investments and found mismarking and pricing errors on its books, it revealed on Tuesday, sending its shares plummeting."
It was first Julius Bear, then Merill Lynch, then Citi...and sub prime blood was soon all over markets. But the thing that pissed me off is not that CS is writing off a loss, the thing that pissed me off was the timing it did that.
Time and again it reported that '07 3rd quarter, 4th quarter had earnings despite writing downs (of which are not so big a magnitude). And it had to wait till 1st quarter to announce the big bath write down.
Surely it would have its balance sheet tidied up way back in '07 right? I mean where's the integrity of the company? Why wait till now for this big write down?
Whoever is being this decision, reputation has indeed fell deep down in the pit. Let's wait till the next can of worms pops up.
Sorry about my ranting, but I am really quite disappointed about the integrity of the company here...which I always thought was respectable.
Thursday, February 07, 2008
Chinese New Year (status: married)
Hey, just got back from home after watching 881, the singapore made film on getais.
Today is the first year of the chinese new year, went to bedok shop, then went to 3rd grand aunt and 4th grand aunt and finally to Cat's house. This is also the first new year where i start giving hongbaos.
Whoa, its seriously big losses man, people stop giving me hongbaos and I start giving them out. Cash Out no cash in. haha...the only way to counteract this is of coz...haha..u know
Talking about 881, for most parts of the show, its actually quite fun, watching the hokkien songs and superb act by Mindy Ong and Yeo Yann Yann. But it was really sad at the last scene, with her life slowly disappearing due to cancer. It was particular sad knowing that Mindy knew that life was coming to an end, but she was doing all she can to live her life to the fullest.
The show overall was kinda boring, but Mindy's role kinda touched me, and to really appreciate that to live the fullest with hope, we have to live in Christ.
Also just got back from having a tour with Cat over the Compassvale Beacon site. The site where we got a queue number of 399 for 540 4-room flats. The flat is situated in an established area, v. near Sengkang Sec. sch. Transport wise it would be taking an mrt from Ranggung LRT then to Sengkang MRT. Well, not to sure whether to take that up yet, but will wait for the HDB call up to finally decide.
A month ago, our house is bustling with relatives from all over and excited about our wedding. We ourselves were excited about preparing to go to New Zealand. A month on, excitement is still there, discovering our marriage lives, grappling a foothold over it..haha..mum's back, but sis is back to NY, coming back in May(hopefully). Also, have to pay more attention to grandparents, for their health is deteriorating slightly. Hmmm..must come back home earlier!
Also started initial study prep for cfa 2, having a break from sun sch teaching this wk, catching up with work, looking with intent interest at the world's development, firms' losing money, central banks cutting interest rates, microsoft over yahoo, Jerome Keriel wanting to drag SocGen down...well haha...this blog is really about me ranting rite?! ahah..
Oh ya...church frens coming over on sun to have lunch. Also a simple way of thanking them for their help during my wedding. ALso glad to have the long weekend being able to spend with family.
Thank God for everything!
Today is the first year of the chinese new year, went to bedok shop, then went to 3rd grand aunt and 4th grand aunt and finally to Cat's house. This is also the first new year where i start giving hongbaos.
Whoa, its seriously big losses man, people stop giving me hongbaos and I start giving them out. Cash Out no cash in. haha...the only way to counteract this is of coz...haha..u know
Talking about 881, for most parts of the show, its actually quite fun, watching the hokkien songs and superb act by Mindy Ong and Yeo Yann Yann. But it was really sad at the last scene, with her life slowly disappearing due to cancer. It was particular sad knowing that Mindy knew that life was coming to an end, but she was doing all she can to live her life to the fullest.
The show overall was kinda boring, but Mindy's role kinda touched me, and to really appreciate that to live the fullest with hope, we have to live in Christ.
Also just got back from having a tour with Cat over the Compassvale Beacon site. The site where we got a queue number of 399 for 540 4-room flats. The flat is situated in an established area, v. near Sengkang Sec. sch. Transport wise it would be taking an mrt from Ranggung LRT then to Sengkang MRT. Well, not to sure whether to take that up yet, but will wait for the HDB call up to finally decide.
A month ago, our house is bustling with relatives from all over and excited about our wedding. We ourselves were excited about preparing to go to New Zealand. A month on, excitement is still there, discovering our marriage lives, grappling a foothold over it..haha..mum's back, but sis is back to NY, coming back in May(hopefully). Also, have to pay more attention to grandparents, for their health is deteriorating slightly. Hmmm..must come back home earlier!
Also started initial study prep for cfa 2, having a break from sun sch teaching this wk, catching up with work, looking with intent interest at the world's development, firms' losing money, central banks cutting interest rates, microsoft over yahoo, Jerome Keriel wanting to drag SocGen down...well haha...this blog is really about me ranting rite?! ahah..
Oh ya...church frens coming over on sun to have lunch. Also a simple way of thanking them for their help during my wedding. ALso glad to have the long weekend being able to spend with family.
Thank God for everything!
Monday, January 28, 2008
Long Overdue post
This is a long overdue post. Life changing things have just happened to me over the past 1 month.
For eg. er.....i got married and after that I went NZ for honey moon haha. Talking about my wedding, oh man..trying to recall it, it just flashed me in a boom. I am still kinda dazed. The whole day just went passed like that, shaking ten thousand hands, taking and giving ten thousand hongbaos, smiling ten thousand times etc. But it was all fun!
Luckily we get married only once in a life time. phew! :) But i am glad wifey had her dream wedding. Her fav. gown, fav. hotel, fav church wedding, almost everything fav..hahahahehe.
And of coz all these are possible due to my dear church mates and family!
And as u already know, after my wedding we went over to NZ south island for 2 wks. Photos can be viewed at wifey's blog
http://jascat.multiply.com (there are probably thousand over photos there)
NZ, super duper beautiful island. Words just do no justice to the beauty of the country. Every photo taken is a postcard quality one. Alps, lakes, valleys, panaroma lakes, valleys mountains..phoa..too power already. And it realli gave me a sense of awe that God created these magnificient landscapes.
Just a few quick tips if u go to NZ. Go to SOUTH ISLAND. TREK on the GLACIERS. RENT A CAR. Buy INSURANCE for the car. Get the cheap MOTEL guide book and go to the cheapest MOTELS. And with that, NZ is quite easy to navigate. A GPS unit wld be useful if available from the car rental.
Thank God for His numerous graces.
2008. A new start, a new life, a new family, new strength to serve. New family member? nah.....hahahah....
byebye!
p.s. my mum and sis, if u reading, quickly come back! :)
For eg. er.....i got married and after that I went NZ for honey moon haha. Talking about my wedding, oh man..trying to recall it, it just flashed me in a boom. I am still kinda dazed. The whole day just went passed like that, shaking ten thousand hands, taking and giving ten thousand hongbaos, smiling ten thousand times etc. But it was all fun!
Luckily we get married only once in a life time. phew! :) But i am glad wifey had her dream wedding. Her fav. gown, fav. hotel, fav church wedding, almost everything fav..hahahahehe.
And of coz all these are possible due to my dear church mates and family!
And as u already know, after my wedding we went over to NZ south island for 2 wks. Photos can be viewed at wifey's blog
http://jascat.multiply.com (there are probably thousand over photos there)
NZ, super duper beautiful island. Words just do no justice to the beauty of the country. Every photo taken is a postcard quality one. Alps, lakes, valleys, panaroma lakes, valleys mountains..phoa..too power already. And it realli gave me a sense of awe that God created these magnificient landscapes.
Just a few quick tips if u go to NZ. Go to SOUTH ISLAND. TREK on the GLACIERS. RENT A CAR. Buy INSURANCE for the car. Get the cheap MOTEL guide book and go to the cheapest MOTELS. And with that, NZ is quite easy to navigate. A GPS unit wld be useful if available from the car rental.
Thank God for His numerous graces.
2008. A new start, a new life, a new family, new strength to serve. New family member? nah.....hahahah....
byebye!
p.s. my mum and sis, if u reading, quickly come back! :)
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Reflecting back on 2007
Well now, let me kinda do a review of 2007 and reflect back on ups and downs, the Lord's graces, and certain interesting things! Let's see how much I can remember.
January- Think it was around this time that Cat and I decided on Oriental being our wedding dinner venue. It was really the earlier stages of our wedding preps. Looking back..haha..we went Park Royal, Orchard hotel, both service stuff where nice.. but Wifey liked Oriental best. Hence there u haf it, coming Sat! Enjoy the food ya!!!
What else in january..hmmm...can't really remember anything significantoh..maybe at work it was my first attempt at giving training to adults? haha...i have taught sunday sch to teenagers, computer science to undergrads and tuition to kids, but adults ? it was kinda my first, but haha..i treat gave it the same mentality to all my teachings, keep it simple, bring out what the audience needs to know, and a sincere love for them. (okok, I still have a much to work on that!!!)
Feb - Err...chinese new year? Boring...haha.... Oh was quite tied up at work coz of UAT (User acceptance testing). Realized that this is the period where work kinda gets doubled. Its actually where users and programmer finally sit down and say, hey...this is wat i understood from you. hey this is what I expected from you. And also started to think, hey, is this what i really want to do? Spend my time with? Or, is there a higher calling?
ALso, got to know the joyous nwews that the May is pregnant!
March - UAT still going on. At the same time had to study for CFA. Also had to prepare for sun sch every wk. But thank God for His preservation, to put my priorities rite. Sun sch seriously had to come first. Those 12 young souls listen to me for an hr each wk, i just can't go there irresponsiblily and any how teach them, especially when its the Word of God. More on sun sch later. But i thoroughly enjoyed the Gospel of John. Indepth reading of the bible is way different from just reading thru...
April - die die, memory failing...cannot rem much. UAT was coming to an end. More studying for CFA. Sun sch...
May - Took 10 days leave to study for CFA. study study study...but funny and u might not believe me, but I love studying finance leh...the subject interests me. veri much like i like comp sci too.
June - Exam day. Also thank God that Cat and I could join family camp. Thank God that some of the youths could go to the watchmen's fellowship in Penang. 'Shou wang tuan'. Cat and I went abt 2-3yrs back, so encouraging that other youths went too!
July - woo hoo.By God's grace, i passed CFA level 1! haha...one thing bad that happened was that Grandma had a realli bad fall. She broke her thigh bone and also had a frigthening scare of symptoms of stroke. But God indeed works wonderfully, when she was in her bed, we had many moments to share, pray for her. And she was very willing for me to pray with her. Its in times of need, that we seek the Lord most. Hence, it realli made me understand by what James said that "Consider it pure joy when you experience trials."
Aug - Got to know 2 realli cool colleagues from work. U know who u r!
Sep -
Oct - Declan was born! First baby from the youths! Population birth rate of church: 1! Also shuxian got married!
Nov -
Dec - Phew. SF/YF Camp over. Tiring sia...Prep for wedding
Er...i sougta eased off towards the end of the last 6 months. Too lazy to type and think and recap. But realli many many things to thank God for in 2007. Now to look forward and press on in 2008!!!
January- Think it was around this time that Cat and I decided on Oriental being our wedding dinner venue. It was really the earlier stages of our wedding preps. Looking back..haha..we went Park Royal, Orchard hotel, both service stuff where nice.. but Wifey liked Oriental best. Hence there u haf it, coming Sat! Enjoy the food ya!!!
What else in january..hmmm...can't really remember anything significantoh..maybe at work it was my first attempt at giving training to adults? haha...i have taught sunday sch to teenagers, computer science to undergrads and tuition to kids, but adults ? it was kinda my first, but haha..i treat gave it the same mentality to all my teachings, keep it simple, bring out what the audience needs to know, and a sincere love for them. (okok, I still have a much to work on that!!!)
Feb - Err...chinese new year? Boring...haha.... Oh was quite tied up at work coz of UAT (User acceptance testing). Realized that this is the period where work kinda gets doubled. Its actually where users and programmer finally sit down and say, hey...this is wat i understood from you. hey this is what I expected from you. And also started to think, hey, is this what i really want to do? Spend my time with? Or, is there a higher calling?
ALso, got to know the joyous nwews that the May is pregnant!
March - UAT still going on. At the same time had to study for CFA. Also had to prepare for sun sch every wk. But thank God for His preservation, to put my priorities rite. Sun sch seriously had to come first. Those 12 young souls listen to me for an hr each wk, i just can't go there irresponsiblily and any how teach them, especially when its the Word of God. More on sun sch later. But i thoroughly enjoyed the Gospel of John. Indepth reading of the bible is way different from just reading thru...
April - die die, memory failing...cannot rem much. UAT was coming to an end. More studying for CFA. Sun sch...
May - Took 10 days leave to study for CFA. study study study...but funny and u might not believe me, but I love studying finance leh...the subject interests me. veri much like i like comp sci too.
June - Exam day. Also thank God that Cat and I could join family camp. Thank God that some of the youths could go to the watchmen's fellowship in Penang. 'Shou wang tuan'. Cat and I went abt 2-3yrs back, so encouraging that other youths went too!
July - woo hoo.By God's grace, i passed CFA level 1! haha...one thing bad that happened was that Grandma had a realli bad fall. She broke her thigh bone and also had a frigthening scare of symptoms of stroke. But God indeed works wonderfully, when she was in her bed, we had many moments to share, pray for her. And she was very willing for me to pray with her. Its in times of need, that we seek the Lord most. Hence, it realli made me understand by what James said that "Consider it pure joy when you experience trials."
Aug - Got to know 2 realli cool colleagues from work. U know who u r!
Sep -
Oct - Declan was born! First baby from the youths! Population birth rate of church: 1! Also shuxian got married!
Nov -
Dec - Phew. SF/YF Camp over. Tiring sia...Prep for wedding
Er...i sougta eased off towards the end of the last 6 months. Too lazy to type and think and recap. But realli many many things to thank God for in 2007. Now to look forward and press on in 2008!!!
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