i typed an entry last night but it didnt get published! and somehow it has been totally obliterated!!!!! ahhh.... lemme try retype:

i'm BACK!!!! from a great trip! i didnt realise i was so terribly exhausted until i slept the whole day away on mon (slept in morn, afternoon, then went on a super long non-stop hibernation mode from 6pm-630am tues!) & continued sleeping in long bouts until today!

was a good one, seeing how God chose us to bless His little ones high up in e mountains. my goal of raising more labourers 4 the worldwide harvest field is met seeing how the students cried so heartbrokenly for the people there [a glimpse of wat happens when God answers our glib prayer: "God break our hearts for the things that break Yours"], how the doctors teared when they shared how God reminded them of how and why He has led them to study med.

leading this team of 15 proved to be very draining on me. needed so much wisdom and love in leading and discipling. my leadership skills were put to the test! was trying to balance btw being task and people oriented. this was a very inexperienced team but God led and guided us. i was impressed at our teamwork and efficiency when i saw how doggedly we pressed on and served with love- God's love. it was a 180 degrees turn around after a really shaky and awful surprise start to the 1st day in the mountains. in the end, we managed to do more than we had planned to. we all saw how much God loved us, loved those who have yet to know Him. and we were all amazed. no one... not even one is forgotten or out of reach from Him.

got a new baby.... guit! yeep bought me one so dat i can play n lead tog. so now i got 3 guits: 1 classical, 2 acoustic... now dat i'll be practising more on this newbie, i hope my black beauty will not feel neglected. (brought my blackie on this mission trip... my guits get 2 see the world wif me... 3000+m above sea level... really picturesque and ccc---ooolllddd!! brr~! we have to tune blackie every time cos the steel strings contract n sound terrible together. was afraid the strings might break. but they held out nicely. and even playing on her was tough cos my fingers felt like freezing over and were not as agile in changing chords!
the last time i brought a classical on a mission trip, it didnt come back wif me... so now my prayer is for it to be travelling ard in hands of believers playing music and leading His people in exuberant praises unto the Lord.)

cut my hair cos felt the weather's too hot. i got used to the less than 10 degrees celsius for the past week and then Bam! back to the sweltering 30+ degrees... sigh... so now i'm back to my sch dayz hairdo... the bob! haha... looks nice with hints of copper blonde at the ends (whatever's left of my last colour job. the rest got cut off!)

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"Knowing all that Christ promises to be for me now and forever, is the power to take whatever suffering love costs." - John Piper

"Transformation" by Bob Roberts Jr.: "as long as we try to make other things enough we will never be satisfied with the love Jesus lavishes on us. We are not going to get enough from friends, family... definitely not from this world....God has done it all for us- total acceptance and total empowerment. What more could God give us? He gave Himself. If we are not convinced that God has given enough, we will always look to people or things to make us feel significant instead of finding our identity in Christ. To be in a position to receive from God, we accept all He has done, just as we are."