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Kent Ridge People
Chairwoman: Mrs Faith Seah
NUH HR executive
Financial Analyst: tan rou'en
NUS 3rd year EL major
Operations Specialist: ivan koh
NSF
Professional Birthday Planners: ben por
econs graduate
& christy!!
2nd year Archi undergrad
web specialists: sharon lim
4th year Theatre Studies major
& eunice tan
St Luke's Hospital HR executive & uniSIM student
Welfare Specialists: dawn neo shihui
3rd year psych major
lee mei zhen
3rd year social work major
& patrick lin han sheng
3rd year econs major
Image Consultant: hong enlin
3rd year political science major
Resident Worship Director: derrick zhuang
HY graduate
Resident Artists: carrick ang
3rd year Soci major
IT Specialist: Sindu
the fabulous chef Phebe
life science graduate
our yummy queen/ food hunter Kimberly
4th year soci major on exchange from Canada!
our dear KR idol Carynl!
3rd year psych major
& our big friendly giant Chong Ken!!!
NUS History Graduand
& our freshie Kai Xin!
NUS Arts year 1
& Jasmine~!
NUS Real Estate
& our spikey haired Wei Jin!!
NUS computational finance 4th yr student
our Masters scholar Joshua~!
All under the guidance & care of our Resident Advisors Wei Guang & Rui Lin (plus little Ashlyn...)
official ice-cream being Ben & Jerry's
and our zone pastor- Pastor Edwin!
anddddd our cell pet Eli~!
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Hello ALL you cellies!
Hope you all are fine and dandy wherever u are! (i.e busy prepping for next week's mid terms or papers, or busy working in the comp centre, st lukes or even if u're just holidaying somewhere in thailand... :P) Anyway i do apologise for sending this pretty late... O btw it's goin to be a long rambling post so yea.. do bear with me! :P
Well first things first, i would like to thank God for a long list of things that is long overdue... well to start things off, i would like to thank God for my friend trixie's salvation! She got saved last weekend on sat and will be joining the engine cell next week! (She's more comfortable with the ppl there thats why..) Secondly, i would like to thank God for seeing me through this past 3 months which has been a truly rough patch. (which explains why my nick looks like the weather forecast christy...) I would also like to thank God for moulding my chac and sustaining me and even bringing in different ones to support and prop me up when i thought that i could go no further... So this post goes out as a tribute to each one of them and you guys in cell whom have really been in a way a form of passive support for me and of course my heavenly Daddy who knows all things in the rite time...
Rewind a couple of months back to july 17 when i returned from my fieldtrip to thailand and malaysia. I had to accomplish 6 papers in 5 days! it's for the simple reason for having multiple lecturers and unreasonable ones at that, so yea... Anyway somehow through all the burning of the midnite oil, i finally accomplish all the essays not by sat but by mon and ironically there was a sting waiting for us at the very end of it. One of my lecturers, whom i shall not name, who supposedly extended our deadlines at the last moment told us that the deadline was at 12 noon and not at midnite which we all initially agreed upon, but by that time, we fig that out it was too late to really do much abt it. I suppose whilst it may seem as a trivial matter but to me personally it seemed a particularly bitter blow since after everything i learnt that skipping lectures would have been more profitable since class attendance was not exactly impt and more importantly i could have spent time doin my own research rather cutting my lunchtime to do research. Yet nothing else could be done so i left it as it was... By the time i was done with the 6 papers, my brain was fried and the only thing u want to do is just sponge off...
Next up, W2 family day! well it took a fair bit of time and physical energy to get the props up and more imptly it took time to prepare all the stuff for the actual day, not the easiest of stuff, but im thankful for each n every single one who contributed in one way or another... which is basically you guys! the whole cell! and for basically for our efforts,we were rewarded with the most visited booth award! so kudos to you guys. Yet somehow, through the euphoria, now i was mentally drained and physically tired...
Next up, the prep for the the wonderful NUS rag and flag day! yet another physically draining week as i prepped all the necessary administrative matters for my hall... I suppose after all i couldn't complain since i volunteered for it and no matter what was said and ho badly it turned out, i am utterly convinced that i did whatever i could and nothing more could have been done that was not done under the circumstances that i was in. Yet, despite saying that, when the final result was announced, it left a bitter aftertaste in mouth, cos for one, alot of ppl in hall were banking hard on me and my team to come up with some great unrealistic magical feat, which of course at the end of the day fell short and whilst the team took the flak i strongly believe that my team supported my every decision and for that im glad...
I suppose the next up was possibly the hardest pill to swallow of all. Some of you may know that my grand dad was battling cancer way back in 2005 and he passed on just the day before flag day. It was not unexpected, but just tough to stomach, especially at that point of time. Furthermore, the division and the family politics that arose from the whole issue, left my family especially my mom somewhat disillusioned with Christianity, yet through it all, God has seen my family through and im forever grateful for ppl who have come alongside to pray and be with my family during this time...
I suppose through it all, somehow i never broke down, cos God was really there for me, through the tears and fears, through the agony and misery, through the tiredness and bitterness... I learnt some of the most fundamental lessons through this rough season. How and what it meant to be a true christian, even when others bite you in the back... Through the roughest seasons, why God allowed things to happen... Learning to hold on to my destiny and future even when it means releasing the present to the Lord...
Indeed, i suppose at the end of the storm, as they always say lies the sun's glory and i have much to thank God for. In addition to the above list of things, i'll add the baptism of my grandma whom my family and my auntie have been praying for, for the longest while now. I guess i could also add the fact that God has granted me favor in my hall as well. I believe that trixie's salvation came at a time when i believe that God put me in King Edward VII for a reason.. Also ive been able to free up time from hall activities to spend with dear precious ones like family, loved ones, cell, even friends and of course my heavenly Daddy! Because ive come to understand that relationships matter more than work and it's certainly more than just i, me and myself... Thus a finished portion of my destiny. Answered prayers with many more to come...
Lastly, i suppose i'll end with this inspirational poem pasted on my wall.
" Rainbows appear after mighty storms
when things look their very worst.
Just when the skies are darkest grey,
look for the rainbow first.
The rainbow is a sign of God's promise,
that He will guide us through any storm
That He will see us through all our
troubles, no matter their form
When you feel battered by life's storms
and you are filled with doubt and dismay;
just remember that God's rainbow is coming
it's only a prayer away..."
So for those of you who have worries and cares that you may consider impossible to get by, just remember that God's rainbow for your life is just a prayer away... and thanks again you guys / gals! :D
Take care now guys/ gals and ill see ya on fri! :D
Ivan - Destiny Defined
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