Officially Graduated!

I just attended my graduation ceremony 3 weeks ago which was held at Victoria Concert Hall. It was quite a special day for me as I wore my graduation robe and the MOTAR board! However, i felt something was missing cos usually in this kind of ceremony, you will be busy taking photos with your course mate and all. In my case, I always meet new friends every semester and most of the friends that I know either gonna be graduated before or after me.. I felt quite "lonely"... Nevertheless, God is good! Though my mum and elder sis are not able to make it for the ceremony, Joanne, Mel and Delia was there with me! Really appreciate their effort of coming down and witness the whole ceremony early in the morning..Great effort for Delia too who tried and helped to figure out the way to wear my graduation robe but in the end it was still salah haha. (you can actually see the difference in the fotos in the slideshow below ;) Well, its not your fault Delia!! Thankfully one of the staff spotted and helped me to wear it correctly or else it will be so embarrassing standing on the stage!!! haha :P Ok, here are some photos taken that day, enjoy the slide show! :)

Dramatic day --> Once Lost, Am found...

A letter to McDonald...

Hi Sir/Madam,
I would like to express my gratitude to one of your staff and the team working in Great World City Macdonald branch. They have helped me to retrieve back my purse. This is how the story goes.

After having lunch with my colleagues at the restaurant, I conveniently left my purse on the table and left the place. I only realised that I have lost my purse about 20 minutes later. Therefore I quickly went back to ask about my purse. Immediately, they went to search the dustbin and look at the video taken down by the CCTV. Unfortunately, they could not find it. However I refused to give up so we went back the second time and asked them if we can search the trashbag ourselves. Without any hestitation, one of the staff (I assumed that she is the supervisor there), Jasmine asked one of the staff to bring us to the backlane to do the searching. She was so nice to ask the staff to do the digging on behalf of us so that we would not dirty our hands and instead we just stood by the side looking out for the purse. To our second disappointment, the purse was still nowhere to be found. Nevertheless, Jasmine suggested that I leave my contact details and some descriptions of my purse with them so in any case they found it, they will contact me.

To my great delight, they called me half an hour later and told me that my purse was found in another dustbin. I was very impressed by their services as they actually took the initiative and great effort/time just to look for my purse again. In the whole episode of searching, they assisted me without any single complain or expressing any dismay on their face and I would think that most people would not actually go all the way just to help and would just let the matter rest. Therefore, I want to applaud for their great services.

On behalf of myself, please commend them for being such a great help and providing an astounding services. Thanks.

Lesson learnt: Never to be careless again and always keep a lookout of own belongings everywhere you go...

Thank God for helping me to get back my purse!!!

50s-90s foto

Carol intro this website --> www.yearbookyourself.com to me and I decided to try it out. Tada! This is how i look with 50s-80s hairstyle haha. Isn't that retro? Do I look nice with it?? I laugh at myself when I saw the pictures lol! I even introduced this to my colleague and she is really laughing away when she saw herself with the obiang hairstyle and look. Try it yourself and have a good luff... :) It's wednesday already, endure cos weekend is coming your wae.... Whoo hoo...! :P

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24.08.2008

It's been sometime since I blogged and maybe I am too lazy or there is nothing or too many things to blog about... Its been a roller coaster weeks and I can officially declare that I am REALLY stepping into adulthood. Haha, weird huh? But this doesn't mean that the old "crazy and funny" Geraldine is gone cos this is still part of my character. hehe! ;) What I meant is that it is time for me to get more mature in certain areas of my life; no more a junior in my company, the need to get more and more serious with my work so that my boss will not need to handhold me;a leader who can lead my sheep well in terms of balancing the way I relate to them when I joke and get serious with(haha this sounds scary ah?? have you met a serious Geraldine before?? lol!) I had a few chances to work with some teens/youth in church and I was even approached to mentor one of the youth! I was joking with Mel that it might be a stepping stone for me to join the youth ministry in the near future... It is quite interesting to work with them but maybe it is because I tend to show that I am a "chin chai" person that they almost climb over my head so therefore I want to be firm when need be. I am also going into another phase of adulthood dealing with stuff like finance, relationship and even for my future... I am starting to get a better understanding of what are the different type of insurance, savings plan and even investment which I feel that that needs proper planning and thinking. It is no longer a "depend" on mummy to decide. I have to make certain important decision in my life now! All these things seem to be very overwhelming and one cannot lean on his own understanding and strength. This is when we need God to come in to guide us... However, I feel that we cannot just speak without action. We also need to spend enough time with God reading His word so that we are able to know Him personally and to be the "Jesus" first christian. Nowadays, whenever situation happen, I will ask myself this qns "If Jesus was here, what will he do?" This makes me have a better understanding of the problem that I am facing and I am able to appease my anger and change my assumption... Even though there's a lot of ups and downs in life, I want to thank God for every single thing that He has blessed me. Those are things that I do not want to take granted of and why make life so miserable when we have a BIG God? Instead of telling others how big your problem is, why not tell others how BIG our God is? Like what today's sermon had said, let's continue to have the fighting spirit and the perseverance while training under pressure! AMEN!

The Grandma "operation"

Just got back from the longest Sunday dinner not long ago. It ended around 9.30pm and which normally will end before 9pm so as to catch C.S.I in AXN. We have an important mission today that is to share testimonials to my grandma and at the same time convincing her to get baptised. We are not trying to force her because in her mind she had already decided to get baptized except that there are some thoughts in her mind that caused her to be a bit confused. Its a joyful sight to see all of my aunties, uncle and my mummy sharing the gospel with my grandma. I thank God for letting my aunties and mum to know about Him and this will not happen without His great intervention and timing! My grandma finally agreed to be baptized on the 30th August in our church! Praise the Lord! It is worth the praying and all the effort put in! It is so amazing how God uses people for different purpose and in His timing! I pray that God will continue to guard my grandma's heart and that she is able to find peace in Him. Pray that God will remove any confusion or worries in her, AMEN! MISSION ACCOMPLISHED:)

NDP Preview 2008

By God's blessing, me and mel manage to get the ticket from mel gan to the NDP preview at the Marina Bay today! It was our first NDP show together as a couple and the feeling was really different haha. This was my first time watching NDP in Marina bay apart from the several times I had in Kallang stadium last many years... It was a spectacular show today especially the bombastic firework that is in front of my eyes, the highlight of the day!! It was so nice and romantic. :) I was also in awed by the display of the Black Knights and the various aircraft performance. The Black Knights drew a "Heart" in the sky which I thought that was really a job well done. The goodie bag is also quite cool. It is a recycled bag with cool stuff like a big air glove(which we give Hi-5 to each other using that), big packet of crackers, shopping vouchers, Singapore flag etc... I really enjoyed myself tonight and seeing all the different people coming together to celebrate national day reminds me the word "UNITY". It is this that brings all of us together as One People, One Nation, One Singapore. This is what God will want to see us as christian, to be united and bring people to His kingdom so as to bring glory to His name! I pray that Singapore will continue to prosper, pray for a good government, the compassion in us for the poor and needy and also to claim all the salvations of the people in Singapore. AMEN!

p.s.:will be posting all nice fotos taken today soon so stay tuned...(",)