hello.

i thought perhaps i should return from my blog hiatus with a spectacular sh-bang entry. but before you read on, know that there's nothing spectacular or sh-bang about this entry. its going to be terribly ordinary, and very matter-of-fact.

once again, i'm sorry for my 3 month absence. :)
i hope this entry kinda makes up for it... *wry grin*

i've learnt in the past 3 months:

* that work can be very consuming

* that time can pass without you quite knowing it is passing you by until it has past you by

* that my niece has super-power kinesthetic abilities. she can climb, walk under tables and fly. and usually do all that while laughing her head off. all at the same time. multitasker eh.

* that my dad enjoys ice-cream at nice ice-cream places like Island Creamery and The Daily Sccop. but more so that he does value time spent with family.

* that ordering birks online is remarkably easy if you have a credit card, which i don't (:

* that marks and spencers food expires rather quickly. but tastes incredibly luxurious.

* that life isn't 'fair' because the work that someone else is supposed to do becomes work that you have to do, and they still get credit and dole (aka royalty) for it. ... ... ... ... following which,

* that PhD holders can have bad grammar, and can make the most unpromising of writers

* that i have an acutely deep (perhaps unfortunate & cumbersome) sense of justice and right-ness when i see shoddy work trying to pass off as otherwise

* that i have a growing passion for the work i do, though i don't know where it'll lead me

* that every child in Singapore by the age of 7 would have received immunisations for mumps, measles, rubella, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, tuberculosis and polio. following which,

* that we are terribly privileged in singapore to be receiving such excellent health care while people in africa are infected with HIV and dying everyday, for lack of efficient help, money and perhaps education. (this is not an activist statement, just a sad reflection)

* that motherhood/fatherhood is tough work (i already knew that) but watching my sis and spencer go at it has crystallised the realisation. i really respect you, dear mom & dad of amber, for your seemingly inexhaustible supply of patience and love to amber, and for constantly innovating and working on making yourselves great parents for her. and i shall not neglect to say that i respect my own parents for loving me the way they do, in their own ways.

* that God can work in any and every situation of our lives if we invite Him to (but even if we don't, that He still lovingly does anyway)

* that God doesn't always simply provide our preferred way out in every difficult situation, but allows the storm & deep waters to drive us to Him. instant relief may not come, but we can be sure we'll reach the shore His way, on 'planks and pieces', as Elisabeth Elliot says. we have a God of salvation (:

* that i need God. all the time.


and so i'm gonna end my matter-of-fact entry in just a moment because i'm very sleepy. and if i keep writing, i shall get even more incoherent.

oops. one moment just past.
and i didn't even notice it.



Goodnight.
(: