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19 September 2009 ! at 10:25 PM ! The spirit of fencing can best be embodied by Paul Gallico, a well-known author and columnist who began fencing at age thirty-seven, who spoke from experience about the attractions of fencing: "It is the release trigger for the outpouring of personality, temperament and self. It is an axiom of fencing that five minutes on a strip behind a weapon, and a fencer has revealed himself, his nature, his character, his honesty, his mental capacities - his very essence. As you are, so you will fence. You can conceal nothing, nor can your opponent. Your inner selves will clash upon the strip as sharply as your steel - there is no royal road, no easy shortcut to the joys of combat fencing. The price is ... hard work and discipline, of sometimes tedious practice drills. But the rewards therefore are great and satisfying. Once the drudgery has been put behind, the fun comes fast and furious and never ending." & I agree so much with it. Please let me just get past the drudgery, before I give up. & I refuse to give up, 'cause I know I'll regret it, & I don't want to regret. <3, CASS. 17 September 2009 ! at 11:59 AM ! It was probably 6 plus in the morning in the clinic where we were all sleeping. As usual, I was the only one still rolling about in my sleeping bag, refusing to get up 'cause I still wanted to sleep more. Heh :D Suddenly, something near my head started vibrating. It vibrated for a while, then stopped. I grabbed my phone, took a glace at the screen to see who the message was from with bleary eyes. 7466 or something like that. What a weird number. I thought it was a junk message & thus, happily went back to sleep, protesting to the calls of the other girls. Most of them were up & about already, chattering away. I then heard Minquan's voice, "... GPA..." Suddenly my whole body jolted awake. My eyes shot open as realisation hit me. RESULTS!!! I scrambled hurriedly to my phone and opened up the message & saw my grades. Haha. What an exciting morning. Got JJ to help me ask his friend check for my GPA. 3.5 plus. Not bad (: There was an improvement. Thank God so much! :D This sudden post on Vietnam makes me miss the YEP trip. I miss Vietnam ): Kinda wish I had signed up this trip. Nonetheless, I wanna go for another YEP trip, next year! :D Be it Vietnam or some other country. &&&! I can't wait for the end of year Cambodia trip! I just pray that my friends would understand why I want to go on that trip, & I pray that the projects will be okay. I'll really need to depend on God's strength, wisdom & grace. In any case, I can't wait for tomorrow! :D <3, CASS. 12 September 2009 ! at 2:39 AM ! Skating Lessons - 030909 I had my first skating lessons yesterday, 2 sessions at a go. It was quite fun, though I crashed a couple of times & it was pretty embarrassing :/ Haha. It was Jingle & Jinghui who taught me yesterday. This morning, I was attached to Yeohan & Danny. I followed Yeohan’s class though. I was pretty afraid to move around though :/ The kids seem pretty pro already while I was still so unstable. It was real embarrassing ‘cause halfway through the lesson, this super pro kid skated over to me & asked if his helmet was worn correctly. So I looked at all the other helmets & he seemed to have worn it correctly. So I said yes. & then he said, “Then, instructor, your helmet is worn on the wrong side.” & he skated away just like that. I WAS SO EMBARRASSED PLEASE. Like, oh no. I think my whole face went red & I just quietly switched the helmet over at one corner :/// & halfway through the lesson, Yeohan told me my wrist guards were worn wrongly too :/// Oh wells. It’s really important to have good classroom management skills, I’m so glad I’ve got background knowledge in this. Now all that’s left is to work on my skating skills. I’ve got to attend more weekend classes to pick up skating. The pay may not be very good, but I think the joys of it may just far outweigh the pay conditions. Lord, I still don’t know if I should cancel my job application for the data entry post. After all, I really don’t want to tire myself out either. & with all the upcoming camps & events to be planned for, I’m starting to question my ability to handle it all. Besides, I still wanna go for some parts of polyserve. For a couple of sessions at least I suppose. The book, Lies Young Women Believe, is really encouraging, challenging & edifying my thoughts. Thank You for speaking the way I love, words. Be it comfort, joy, peace or even assurance, I’m so much more secured in Your love. I love You, God. Because You first loved me. & now I pray that the unconditional love You gave me will be given to others through me as well. Especially to my family & friends. <3, CASS. 08 September 2009 ! at 1:00 AM ! Hello all! How time flies. Okay, this is gonna be a pretty long post, so make yourself comfy ;D First off, on to the non-urgent but lovely matters. I was just reading & looking through all the past Links & I just realised how far God has taken not just the Link, but even me through. It's been a whooping 20, YES MY FRIENDS, TWENTY ISSUES, since I've become the editor! Can you believe it? I can't. Like, woahhh. Haha & I really really thank God for how He has led me to this ministry, led me through & is still continuing to lead me. He is definitely the same yesterday, today & tomorrow! *Anyway, TWENTY'S a great number of issues to go through! So paiseh, but I really really really feel like thanking God! I hope this will encourage all of you too! So please read on :D Through serving in the Link team, I've grown to love Him, have my faith rooted even deeper & stronger, watched knowing that He does miraculous things and of course, I've also grown to expect not to sleep on the last fridays of the months. HAHAHA. JK. Of course, serving has never been easy, it has been tiring, challenging, yet satisfying. At the end of the day, when I know that my efforts are not in vain, that they will please the Lord, my heart is secured and settled in peace & love as well. I thank God for each & everyone of you who have come on board this wonderful, exciting journey with me & God (: Thank you Ian, for constantly being our advisior, our guidance & the constant feedback for the LINK team! Thank you Chiawen, for being there with me right from the beginning since I've started serving! Though many times I feel like I'm gonna drown or something, I know I can always count on you for support & guidance too! Thank you Jeanieee, for serving with me since I've joined this lovely team. You're always brimming with ideas, with all your creative juices constantly flowing out! You have no idea how much I love & appreciate the ideas from you! Thank you Rogan, for all the wonderful artistic layouts you've always produced since I started serving in the LINK team! Though it was sad that you had to leave ))): But I'm glad to have been able to have served with you! It was awesome, getting so much professional & cool guidance from you, especially in terms of using technical softwares like Photoshop, which I had no absolute clue how to initially! Thank you Bong, for joining this team, & constantly wow-ing me with the fabulous layouts you always produce, no matter how late or how short the timings you had! It's definitely a gift God has blessed you with, so keep using it for His glory yeah! Thank you Sicheng, for the wonderful, inspiring articles you've written from time to time, and the lovely layouts you've produced! God's bestowed you with the gift of writing, so keep writing every now & then to touch others with words from God! It's amazing how words can, or articles, can bring one closer to God! Thank you Shine, for your willingness to serve! Your bubbly laughter & joy has always overflowed to keep all of us in a super light mood! It's been a while since we've had meetings with you, & I really really really pray & hope that you can come back & join us soon! Thank you for always willing to stay up late just to compile the articles together in time, even though you always have work the following day. For that, I sincerely apologise, & I hope to be able to come up with some sort of system to help improve the flow of things. Thank you! Thank you Catherine, for always helping to do articles & sending them in even before the deadline! It is so encouraging & awesome to know that something's completed already & there's one less person to chase for, for articles! As attachment starts for you & you can't continue serving for now, I really hope that you'll come back soon! Your layouts have improved a lot! Thank you Amelia, for always being so encouraging & willing to learn. Despite not knowing about Photoshop at all initially, your willingness to learn & ask, humbly constantly, has been such a blessing to me. I've learnt so much from you. Thank you Mark Chia, for even having the heart to want to write & serve in the LINK team. Indeed, let no man despise thy youth. Therefore, I pray sincerely that God will use you to write articles of wisdom & truth, that they may bless the readers. Hahaha, sorry folks, was feeling a little sentimental today :D Off to Malaysia for a day trip with my mum & sisters! <3 :D Oh & I wasted money buying some pretty looking pens which turned out to be a little crappy 'cause they couldn't really work. But they were really pretty! & I promise to never ever, paste 4 pieces of salon pas on my back & shoulders ever again. The heat that's emitting right can probably kill me soon. HAHAHA. BUT OH. HOW I LOVE SALON PAS. My back & shoulders would probably die without it! <3 OOH AND SKATING ON THURSDAY WITH JING!!! I CAN'T WAIT, HAVEN'T SEEN THAT LOVE OF MINE FOR ABOUT A GAZILLION MILLION YEARS! <3 GONNA BE A SKATING INSTRUCTOR, Jiang Ling you watch! HAHAHA. I will become one! Caught up SOSOSO much with Jiang Ling & Lyana this holiday. ECP cycling, concert, sleepovers... The list is endless. I really thank God for the both of them. Now, I just can't wait for the sleepover with Puii too! I hope 'A's don't kill her, but she's stronger than that eh? I know (: Though I expect her to sleep through half her papers... I'll try to have more faith in her (: Love does wonderful things <3 <3, CASS. 04 September 2009 ! at 4:40 PM ! Anyway, back to the book. It's pretty awesome, I've learnt so many biblical truths, about God, myself, Satan, guys, relationships, faith, sin, media and even about the future. It's been such a fruitful & rewarding time reading it. Although it isn't God's Word directly (the Bible), but I feel like I've definitely drawn closer to God through all the lies and Truths being exposed. I'm so going to read the lies once more, going through them one by one, ensuring that I remain vigilant & not fall for them again. For the past couple of days, I've visited Ian's blog as well! Haha, his new blog that is. 2 posts that attracted me a lot were the ones on sleeping. For the past semester, I felt like I haven't slept for half of it. Being too caught up in things, constantly worrying, feeling like I'm on tenterhooks all the time has taken the pleasure of sleeping away from me. Every single week, there will be at least one or two days in which I find myself having to work either very late into the night, like say 2 to 3am, or not sleeping through the night at all. Such unhealthy lifestyle and sleeping habbits took its toil on me. I Cor 6: 19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s. Upon reflection, these two verses have indeed spoken a lot to me. By refusing to sleep properly, it has led to me being constantly tired, burdened & even irritable. If I can't even take care of my physical body, how can I glorify God in my spirit? Physical tireness has led me to be emotionally drained, mentally tired out as well. With such burdens, it is hard for me not to fall into temptations & sins. There is no longer the energy or desire to want to fight the good fight of faith [1 Tim 6:12]. Instead of turning to Him, I've kept my eyes on myself, my unstable emotions, my situations, my sins, my guilts. Thank You Lord, for preserving me through still despite my stubbornness. <3, CASS. |