The Apple's Diary!

After I posted my last entry, I had this nagging thought I should clarified some part. Indeed I should, because I told Darren on my experience about not able to sleep well and not reading the bible before I sleep, he straight jumped into a conclusion that I had a misconception in reading bible. Okay, let's get this straight. First, I must say that I may have mislead some of you into the idea that reading the bible before you sleep will prevent nightmare. In the bible, God has never written or said anything about this. However, Jesus encourages us to dwell in God's words. In another word, I simply takes the opportunity of doing Quiet Time (QT) before bedtime for these reasons. Firstly, it gives me the space to slow down my pace. Secondly, it is a good time to reflect on my action in the day. Thirdly, whatever unhappiness that occured during the day or whatever blessings I get, I can say a prayer of Thanksgiving. Fourth, I can pray for the next day's challenges. Fifth, it mak...

Woke up with a headache today. Was on MC for the past 1.5 days. I'm still flu-ing (if there's such a word). Not sure if it was because I slept too much yesterday. The flu medication is drowsy type. I ended up being drowsy 3x. So last night, I took my last dose but the strange thing was I couldn't fall asleep. In fact, I struggled to fall asleep. I could feel the start of a headache even in my sleep and I got random shoots of fragmented dream. It was not a good sleep. I analysed my "before" bedtime actives. It coincided with those nights that I would get horrible nightmare or not a peaceful sleep. 1. Before sleeping, watching a comedy or action packed or horror movie/ TV drama. My brain will be so sizzled by the motion pictures that it remains too active for a peaceful night. 2. Failing to mediate on God's words before sleeping. There would be times I get too carried away in doing other stuff, examples no. 1 point above that I skipped my Quiet Time and went to ...

Last night, or I should say this early morning at 5am, I woke up in a startle. I thought I forget to set my alarm and was late for work. ( I thought it's already 7am). So after checking my clock and realized it's only 5am, I went back to sleep. But within this 1hr of sleep, I had a very weird nightmare. It started with me working as a surveyor in Shenton Way. I was doing a survey with this lady and we got into a friendly chat. Then somehow, we went on chatting on phone and she was caught by her boss for talking on the phone for too long. Next scene, I was back at my old place. It was my wedding day! Oh gosh! I wasn't even prepared. My gown was not ready, I still had not have my makeup one and it was already 11+am. Then Darren came with his bros (Xiong Di) while I didn't even have any bridesmaid (jie meis). At this moment, the shenton way girl appeared and told me she can be my jie mei. It was totally chaotic and the worse was I didn't even know it's my wedding d...

what it seems to be... Take for example, how many cats are they in this pix? on the 1st look, there are 3 or 4 cats. But actually, there is only 1 cat. Illusion is deceiving. What it seems to be is actually not. In our daily life, there are many things we look on the surface and take it as for real. But could it be our perception hinder the truth from revealing? Yesterday, I went thru a roller coaster of emotions. From shock to depress to despondent to anger and finally to surprise. Yup, that's how emotional i can be. All within 1hr. And no, it is not these beautiful flowers' fault. In fact, these flowers reminded me that some things we shouldn't just look at the surface. "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11

Just feeling extremely vexed over the long list of stuff to prepare for a wedding. I don't know how a simple wedding can accumulate such a massive list of tasks to fulfill. First, the date and the venue must be secured. We got the date though it wasn't the ideal date. Hence now and then, the mother will make some noise about it. Well, why wasn't it an ideal date? Because according to the Tong Shu (the ancient chinese almanac), the date we selected had a "danger" sign in it. What sort of "danger"? I don't know. But since we are both Christians and we know better to trust in our faithful God, we decided to stick to this date. Hmm... it has no meaning to us so if I want to change the date, I guess I have my wedding on our anniversary date which will postpone the wedding further. Next the venue. Thank God for answered prayer. We got our venue of choice and at the timing we want. Can you imagine the complications if we would change our date?! We waited fo...

When you come to my age, you will understand the other significance of "Married, pregnant & with kiddo" Peers of my age, some younger are married (for years). So they are either pregnant or with a kid or 2. Yes yes... life so fulfilling ... oh so blissful ;p I think it gets to a stage that the "married, pregnant & with kiddo" find it hard to strike a proper conversation with the singles. Well, I don't blame them. We are at the different stages of life. They are busy with milk powder and diapers. Exchanging tips on keeping their babies healthy and strong. Pointers on teaching their toddlers on their ABCs and their 123. So what to do with the singles? Milk powder and diapers? Drink from the carton of low fat milk and shop at La Senza for that sexy lacy piece. Tips on having healthy lovely babes? Do a 20 squats daily to keep your thighs firm and cut back on that bak kwa. Learning the ABCs and 123? salut! vous parlez anglais? Pick up a sexy french accent or...

You know usually around the festive season, the shopping malls are always crowded. This year is a totally different scene from last year. I went shopping last weekend. Something which I hadn't done in quite a long while. Besides, CNY is coming up and so armed with a mission to shop for bags and clothes, I braved myself for the long queuing at the changing rooms and squeezed with the crowds. Oh, I was quite wrong. In fact, I hadn't much trouble bringing clothes into the changing area to try. One thing that I was caught quite off guard was the discount given. It happened post CNY but before CNY... seldom heard of. Nonetheless, I thought it was really a good time to stock up whatever you need or want. With huge discounts given up to 50%, I really had a good bargain. So just over the weekend, I got myself one new wallet from Esprit ($39 after discount), 2 new bags - one big black for work and one bronze evening bag from Robinsons (total $54), one new dress - bright fuchsia pink fro...

is getting lesser as you can probably tell from the number of postings I made in this month. Very often there are many thoughts in my mind and there's the impulse of noting it all down. However, by the time I got home, would be quite late. I wonder if my blog will prematurely expire due to this reason. Nonetheless, I will strive to keep up this blog.

10 days into the New Year! How's everyone feeling? Work week has started and I am starting to get busy again. At least for work direction, it is now much clearer and the focus is defined. Of course, this is a period of time, where you are lucky to have a job, with recession and retrenchment in the news nowadays. So at least, I am comforted to know I have a monthly stable income. At last, I bought my GRE book and started working on it again. This morning, I woke up and turned to my bookshelf. I realised that this was the 3rd time I got a GRE book. So I wondered where does the problem lies in me not getting a good score. I've decided I am going to put in all my effort and be really serious about mastering the GRE. Perhaps this will be my 1st resolution of the year. Since it's such a great and cheery morning, I look at the CD photos which SH prepared. I'm smiling and laughing at the photos. Brings back such good and wonderful memories of 2008. I guess it doesn't have ...