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8:09 PM

Too much backlog but here's an attempt to clear some for memories sake.

History FOC before the start of school! Thankful that I went and got to know like 1/2 of my cohort!

National Day service at church! Everyone was dressed in red and there was really the NDP feels lol.

And yes, got tickets for this year's NDP! Didn't want to miss this year's especially since it's SG50! But we could only get tickets for The Float @ Marina Bay which wasn't the location that most of the performances and parade happened.

Still, it was a great time! To be in a sea of red Singaporeans and celebrating this very significant and meaning occasion together.

With daddy who got the tickets! :-)

Beautiful fireworks.

So many more pictures in my album but it's not possible for me to upload everything here so..! Anyway, it was a really good time to spend National Day there! Feel ever thankful to be born in this amazing place called Singapore. :-) Thank God for everything!

Went out with this two girls for a meal during the first week of our school! Had a great meal and awesome time together over that spread! :-)

And Dreams @ HOF! Was a really awesome time together. Trained together for about 2 weeks and we didn't even have a full house rehearsal till D-DAY. It was also rather tough for us dance rookies (most of us) but really all glory to God that we won 2nd in the end! Didn't expect to win at all, but really had a very great time with the people of God throughout the few weeks!

This was during a random lunch with the bro during the first week of school! :-)

Also met Cuz at Coffee Bean in school to celebrate her birthday! Really glad that we can meet so easily now for meals and all cause we're in the same school!! :-)

Yellowren Arts Festival!

Got a chance to unleash my non-existent drawing skills lol.

We were invited to perform our dance in public hahaha. We were pretty rusty already and also -1 so we had to make some changes to the choreography! But still thank God for the opportunity!

Look we're famous! I kid. Totally shocked when Bernice sent us this lol?! This was taken on the day of the performance at Arts Square while the MP was going about his constituency walk-about hahaha.

Very spontaneously agreed to act in a drama for our trinity too. Had to act like a grown up Emma who fulfilled her dreams hahaha omg. It was a really fun time filming together!! And we won 2nd for this as well!!! All glory to God. :-)

Went to grandma's with bro!

And met with this kiddo! Had some work to do and he had his CA2 the next day so we had an impromptu study session together. I can't believe that this is the boy that I carried and took care of when he was just born?!?!?! How time flies.

A shot with daddy and sis at the airport when we went to fetch mom!

At NTU Fest! I wouldn't have gone if not for the $100 worth of coupons that daddy bought from his friend x_x But honestly it was still quite a good time there hahaha.

Yummy macaroons!

And saw this girl there!!! :-)

Oh and this was really awesome?!?!?! but it's $7...... sobz.

Went for Yellowren Arts Festival at Lower Seletar Reservoir after! That place is so amazing omg and the weather just made everything perfect. They also invited a famous band that performs regularly at Timbre! They sang such awesome songs!! It was a really amazing night.

Met them for a quick meal some day in between too! We were finding a place with good lighting.. and ofc the expert photographer Lester knew where hahaha.

Also met this girl by coincidence on the way to school! Made plans to hang out after. Simply love such impromptu dates! :-)

Sis came over to NTU while I had my make-up class on Saturday! Just stayed around and studied for a bit hahaha.

And I finally went for an election rally! Went for this cause it was held near my house lol. I was shocked to see so many people with fanboards. It was a really good experience and I'll definitely go for more in the future elections!

A meet up with Michelle! One of the gems from my secondary school. So glad that we still meet for meals occasionally!! :-)

An impromptu study session with Emily too after ages!!!

A supper with Snoopz (- Jin)! Super great time with driver Germ hahaha.

Weekly meeting with the ycg!! :-)

Shall stop here for today and continue the rest of the events on another post!! :-)

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GEWR 21.1KM / First ever half-marathon

2:06 PM

Finally back for a proper update. Exams are not over yet... but I'm almost there! I've some time for a breather so here goes. :-)

Joined Great Eastern Women's Run this year! And finally not 10km but 21.1km! My first ever. I know it sounds pretty insane.. since it's a more than double increase.. but yeah, I did it! With God's providence.

Honestly I felt so unprepared for this race. I trained only 2 times for this race?! I must be insane right lol. But actually it's because of the hectic schedule and the horrible haze!!! Couldn't even train properly during my pockets of free time. So I only managed to train twice, covering only 8km+ before the race day. Furthermore, the haze condition wasn't getting any better and the race might have been cancelled! So in my heart I was just like half-worried lol.

But THANK GODDDDDDDD. Thank God for clearing the skies that morning! The PSI levels were really bad for the days before. The sky cleared so magically on the race day itself! Thank God for that although I felt damn screwed when I woke up HAHA

My half-marathon partner-in-crime. We were so sleepy waking up at 2am+ to catch the shuttle bus! But really thank God for still giving us the strength to go on.

My first half-marathon, my first women's race. Pretty interesting experience! Was like worried, sleepy and excited all at the same time while we walked to the starting point.

One of the images that was captured by the official photographers. This was taken near the end so I looked like I was going to collapse anytime.

Actually, it didn't turn out as bad as I thought it'd be! I clocked my fastest ever 10km and met so many nice ladies on the way who gave encouraging words! Passed by so many places (including those during my previous races). But.. of course it wasn't all smooth-sailing. At the 6km mark I was just thinking to myself.. "Why didn't I sign up for 10km??! If I did, I'd have been more than halfway through.." HAHAH and at the 12km mark I was thinking, "Maybe I should give up and wait for the bus to bring me to the end point.." and etc during certain points LOL. The worst slope was the Marina Barrage. We had to run through the whole Barrage like whaaaaaaaaaaaaat. That was around the 16km mark and I just wanted to roll down the slope then.

Okay, but despite all those negative thoughts, I made it to the finishing line without any cab/rolling. And I was given this horrible sparkling water. Looks so atas but I hate sparkling water so...

Yay and we are done!!! The post-race carnival was so good?!?! Like they had massage areas (like legit ones), many food and drinks stations and even a powder room?! Really worth all the money I paid.

And yay another achievement unlocked!!!! :-)

Will I ever go on to complete a full marathon?!?!?! We shall see how.............. hahaha goodbye for now. :-)

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12:15 AM

Been quite some time since I updated and I've no idea who'll be reading this now, but I really want to write about this very amazing night.

Went to HOF and I really felt so, so blessed by His Word tonight.

(A disclaimer before that; by saying that I feel very blessed by His Word tonight does not mean that I don't feel so for the Sunday services. But that I feel extra blessed by this sermon that made me feel that God is really speaking to me. It's an indescribable feeling, you just have to experience it for yourself.)

Today's sermon was on the very cliche 'Faith, Hope and Love'

Prior to this, I've never really thought much into the three words. I only understood them on the surface level; to have faith in God, to be hopeful in His promises and to love all and love God. So today's sermon really brought my understanding of this three core attributes of a Christian to a whole new level. (Thank you Pastor Casey!)

The final video he shared also really touched me so much till I started tearing. From the video, I really felt and understood how much I need God. How vulnerable and imperfect I am as an individual.

I'm currently going through what is possibly the most stressful part of my life (yes, more than As). I guess that's because I don't really have much friends that I can really talk to and fool around with to lessen the stress. I've become so introverted to the point that I don't even feel like speaking to anyone about my problems.. or maybe because I feel like when I share about it, no one's interested to listen anyway. I guess that's why I just feel so depressed every other day (or moment). Deep inside, I'm really crashing. It has come to a point of time that I can't even cry.. and that feeling really sucks. I really want to just give up on every single thing right. I pray to God, but my discontentment about life just blocks me away from listening to Him.

So from today's sermon, I heard God. He wasn't just speaking, but shouting to me through Pas Casey's sermon that He has, and will be always there for me at every step of the way, as long as I choose to put my faith and hope in Him. I need to also love Him more than any other earthly object to feel His presence in my heart. Really... THANK GOD. I'm really so thankful, for His overflowing grace and love.

I know I can get through these hurdles, because I have GOD.

I'm also really blessed with Phileo. Their prayers really give me so much strength and bravery to get through whatever I'm facing now.

I know there are and will be so much more hurdles ahead, but I'm not fearful, because He is there. :-)

Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.

Deuteronomy 31:6 (NIV)

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