the unexpected

this week had many twists and turns... decisions that had to be made... turmoil after the decisions... and yet ultimately God has a better plan...

His plan was so wonderful and beyond my wildest imagination or comprehension. I thank God for the path that He has led me to take and I thank Him so much for it. every now and then i find myself marvelling at how things have turned out and truly can't thank Him enough for the way the situation has ended up as.

anyway, through this trying week i thank God for my family, xiang, colleagues and friends who were there for me. i was so miserable on wed... really miserable... and just three days later i'm so much happier and filled with an inexplicable joy and gratitude. it's amazing.

today was a good day... long but good. the usual do at the market with my parents but today i had loads of groceries to carry cos mum's preparing refreshments tomorrow at church. refreshments it's called, but everyone takes it to be lunch so mum's preparing curry, fried mee tai mak and oven-baked macaroni... yumyum... came back and helped my mum deshell the 1kg worth of prawns. she's so good that our ratio of peeling was four is to one! i will improve! like now i can prepare the prawns for storage pretty fast (cutting off all the sharp pokey bits and stuff) when i use to drop them all the time! lol... getting there... figured if i wanna learn how to cook i must first learn how to clean out the stuff. so i now know how to clean out a fish, prawns, sotong (gross), chicken (not the full chicken yet... just the thighs and breast meat)... hmm... and i'm a professional bean sprouts plucker! lol! had a nice time at lunch... papa felt really loved cos i accompanied my sis for brunch i walked all the way to the beo crescent market to look for his fried dace and black beans as we were having teochew porridge for lunch. so we had such a nice time chit chatting before lunch... and enjoyed the lunch tremendously... think the fish tasted nicer to papa cos it was bought with love! *everyone say it together now... "awwwww"* lol...

anyway, tuition was good too... think i must make it a regular thing to pray for lots and lots of patience before tuition... cos then i don't get so upset when he doesn't seem to understand or keeps forgetting how to do certain problems over and over again.. so the two hours passed quickly. but it's a little stressful right now cos his CA2s are coming in about two weeks... so there's a lot to cover before that... hope it turns out ok...

then we had dinner with my aunt who's back on a short trip (she migrated to NZ)... nice dinner...

yup... all it all it was a wonderful day and i thank God for every little bit of it.