gallery random

in my previous post, i promised more pictures to make up for my absence.

and so, here are some random ones. i would typically try to string the pics into my entries in a sort of anecdotal style...but now...i shalln't bother.

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birthday pressies from my lovely sister

2 bags of homemade brownie cookies
2 penguin book stands
7 rolls of shiny colourful tape
5 rolls of cartoony scotch tape
a pack of 25 popcorn gun man lunch bags
cute post-it notepads
a picture of amber greeting me 'happy birthday'!

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the birthday surprise at office. my wish for a quiet morning did not exactly happen, but i appreciate my colleagues' (the sunshine club) effort in making me feel a little more special on my birthday (:

the ornaments that screamed "it's emily's birthday!!!!"

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the venetta cake surprise from my cg.

which we only got to eat 1 week later! ha!
but tasted just as divine…


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my recent indulgences from the meiji warehouse sale.
the perks of working in the industrial estate.

and i bought a patrick starfish puppet for my cutey-pie niece too, at $5 from a toy sale.

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i have no picture of patrick starfish, but i have picture of cutey-pie niece!!

grandmama (also my mom) and baby!

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oh. i'm so sleepy.

goodnight world.

and leave me some tags!

turning green

i confess! i'm such an unfaithful blogger.

and so...i shall make up for it by putting a lot of photos... :p

my pet plant died.

*sigh*

i came back to work after youth camp (Dec 11) only to discover, to my utmost horror, that my pet plant had pitifully withered away while i was enjoying myself at camp. i had forgotten, to my great indignance, to ask someone to water my plant for me. i'm such a lousy plant owner.

*bish* *bish* *bish*

okay, so the plant looks kinda pretty that way in the pic...but here's a reminder of what it's supposed to look like:

flourishing -- it's supposed to look like it's flourishing.

but i took yet another picture on friday, Dec 15, hoping to see some improvement.

but it doesn't look very promising hor?

okay. on to greener topics.

so while my plant was withering away, i was at youth camp doing helper-ish things and feeling like half a youth. i shall say with much gusto, i am getting older. as one has put it, i'm 'not old. just matured, like wine in casks'. (?? you might be thinking) i appreciate the artful euphemism though.

and so, while youths were doing youthy things, i would be in my dorm with 3 other helper-ish people discussing the very skin-deep things of life, exchanging ideas over 'follicle management' and showing off my prized buys *wink* so refreshing to be in the company of sisters who are totally candid and excited about my braun epil. haha.

but, touching on more soul-deep issues, youth camp has always been a time of transformation and breakthrough. it has been great encouragement to see God at work, speaking and convicting young hearts. we may not be able to measure the impact of youth camp but i am constantly amazed at how God can choose to work so powerfully in 5 days. He speaks, He moves, He breaks, He restores, He transforms. i pray the seed of conviction He has sown will not lose its place in the heart of each youth.

and for those of you younger ones reading, hold on to Him! when the going gets tough, recall these times of being in His presence in personal encounter and hope in His promises. He is faithful, even when we aren't (: