list of things i want for my house

1) L shape sofa
2) metal bar to do pull up on
3) light coloured tiles

wa school is starting soon.. will it be pandemonium with the 2 new staff??!! gosh.. stress.. but not too bad la.. ordered the chinese " developing the leader within you" today.. hope that it will be helpful to Yumei..

Chunyan is in Lijiang.. hope she enjoys her time there and that it will be productive..

the days fly by so fast.. thought of visiting SYL today but she no reply my sms.. wonder if she is in Dali or Kunming or just too busy.. mayb should call her next time..

wonder what the next step is.. sometimes with people coming in and out, and leaving.. i do feel a bit like no energy to get to know new people.. mayb after a while more..

but thank Him for CC and HM, they do seem like earnest girls.. and Yumei seems q committed to getting to know them, even making plans to visit HM's village during mooncake festival.. waa i dont have such commitment yet..

Wanping where are u? miss u! :)

Thought of Kunliang today on the bus out of nowhere.. I miss you brother..

gng for dinner w Isaac and Doris soon :) mayb eat at the 1st lao di fang today.. hmm san xian tang mayb..

today we had Dai food. ok la not bad. Dinner we went to the newly opened Hokkien food place. It is being attacked by the sg pple cos the food there not as oily. Boss there can speak Hokkien! whaha. His Chinese also sounds funny like my Chinese. WHahahha!

I ate there like 3 times this week liao. Isaac also. We went to look for the emperor crockery place today but it was closed!!! China is like that, the food places u like often close and move away. ........

Tomo took the day off liao. Isaac need to go office settle something so maybe i will work on finishing my toothbrushing video.

This week so busy. got 2 new staff! seem like nice girls. hope we can all get used to each other soon.

wed screened abt 70 patients and staff of the hospital. Nice to finally talk to the patients there. We are booked till sept liao. then Thurs went on crazy dentist mode to finish 17 orphan children's teeth, cos they only came for that one day as part of summer camp program. At first suppose to be 33 kids. Thank God in the end only 17 kids need dental work. peng san.

Wanping: come on msn leh

waiting for isaac to make dinner.. today making pasta.. tomo i can work from home, in the morning anyway.. going to work on the toothbrushing video.. wonder if i can get it all done..

lunch was nice today.. went to the emperor crockery place again and ordered their soy sauce chicken again! yumyum

tomo going to make kro poh

hope we can move in to the apartment by august..

gift

Isaac got me VPN for our anniversary gift. isnt that the cutest. now i can surf facebook and blog. :)
i am going to buy him chocolate and its ok i can write here and he wont know cos he doesnt read blogs. haha

KL

sometimes i remember you at unexpected times. like when i was playing the guitar that day, because you were one of my major teachers during our time at SAF. and the other day something happened at the clinic and i wanted to tell you, knowing you would suan me. and i know when i get back to sg i have 1 less person to sms.

i wonder if there was anything left i didnt say the last time i saw u in sg. the last thing i did for you was buy you a copy of the straits times before i left the hospital. but i think what it was was good enough. im glad you are in a better place, not having to suffer or struggle through treatments and illness. you are in His hands, a better place than any of us here.

i wonder if now when i play the guitar it will always carry the extra meaning because it reminds me of you. you have been one of my best friends in the last few years, suddenly. i miss you brother. and i remember you with love.

what a difference a day makes

what a year. 2 ends of the spectrum. good stuff v good.. bad stuff v bad..

cancer. bad stuff.

pple come to Him. good stuff.

fam issues. bad stuff.

more pple come to Him. good stuff.

sigh. what a world.

i love u brother. i dont know what to say. we go eat crab when i come bk.

How Great

How great the love of God.

that He would use His life to exchange for mine.

xie xie ni.

music

It's interesting.. i really enjoy instrumental worship songs now. Wallis sent me a few and i really like them.. it helps me destress after a long day.. sometimes long cold day.. :)

i like.

health cert

went for health check today.. they took 4 vials of blood! 6 stations. they gave L her wrong blood type prev.. so dont know how much u can trust them but it is a formality we have to go thru.. they measured me 166 cm w shoes! i thought i was 168! mayb i am only 164!! wah piang. Isaac said something abt pple getting older will shrink.. :p

now feeling v tired.. dunno if its the exertion of getting my blood taken or gng thru the system or that it was super cold today .. like 3 degrees loh.

Thank God, while we were at the health check place J got a call that the hospital signed the contract. that is super super awesome news. cant describe how awesome it is. we havent even signed our part yet!

And now i am feeling a bit stressed cos venturing out in unfamiliar waters. sigh. :|

Help me Lord. Help! Pray for Your grace to lead me through. Thank You for today, for the opportunity to talk to WLH.

long day

It's been a long time since i blogged. due to this land's habit of blocking websites.

We had a retirement party for I and M today. they are truly amazing and wonderful brother and sister. really beautiful lives. like the verse, the fragrance of Christ.

signed up for Idem this week. Isaac really encouraged me to. i was hesitating in my usual fashion. so i signed up for it and also bought my airtickets for april. transit in malaysia. not too bad i suppose. now i feel all tired from decision making.

this week started with 2 big meetings. a lot of decisions, a lot to think about. maybe that is why i am tired. sigh. gosh. it was this week we brought P to his new boss place. and also this week we visited FP in hospital. also had some new visitors. i suppose that is why i feel tired.

things move so fast ard here. i thought i would have time to write update, but w the new clinic thing i am tired spinning my thinking wheels around it. Just wait and see. and also trust in Him to direct things. so many things out of our control. who are we kidding, perhaps everything is out of our control..' my times are in Your hands. ' You are in control. Thank You for that.

feeling super tired.. another end to a long week.. actually not that long.. but jus so busy..

mayb cos speed doing dentures for the 2 leprosy patients.. and last week was speed clearing the cons and extractions for the other 3 so that they can go home earlier.. wa but q interesting.. i sawed thru 1 patient's full dentures that were 'anchored' by abt 3 teeth on each arch.. thankfully the teeth were v loose so i could extract the denture without too much trouble.. jialat mann.. e things they make at the road side.. he say it was painful and he was glad to be rid of it tho it mean he have no teeth for 6 weeks..

on top of that we went on day trips to village twice for past 2 weeks..
i feel a bit short tempered cos mayb tired.. which is not good i know.. like if things not done perfectly or if staff not automatic enough i feel a bit like scolding them.. but then again, i remember that they honestly dont know how to do so maybe they jus need a clear direction to pick things up.. or not.. dunno. like if the pain is at spot A why are u trimming it at spot B?? which is the other end of the denture?? scratch head.. don understand..

tired.. mayb after next week will be better

now is thinking how to train TR to do complete dentures for her leprosy village patient.. while minimising the number of times she see them.. hopefully, the 2 uncles can go home on Monday.. which means their dentures took less than 2 weeks to do! faster than the estimated 3 weeks.. i realise i do enjoy trying to problem solve and thinking of creative ways to do something using bare necessities.. been surfing the net for videos on doing complete dentures.. hopefully can sort of finish the training in 3 days.. :P.. also hope to train CY to be a denturist.. :P

really need Him to guide..

Whee!!

i'm not sure how but i can surf facebook and blog again!!!! downloaded something and clicked something and here i am!!!!!! im so excited i can feed my facebook pet again but the thing is down!!!! wa piang

anyway, i also wan to blog abt my first year wedding anniversary! so fast.. one yr already!!!!!!!!!

it was like a whole weekend spending time tog. On sat, we watched GI Joe, followed by Isaac's fav Indian food for lunch.. dinner we went to the Korean place where i ordered too much food again.. (eyes bigger than stomach, as he likes to say).. ok la jus left some Korean cold noodles uneaten..

den sunday which is the day itself we went service, dinner we wanted to go Red Star for thai food but it was closed, so we went teppanyaki. Yummy squid and garlic chicken! Monday we still high on good food and made chicken curry fr the packet mix we bought fr carrefour :) yummm

was great fun. :) ok typical sg blog always talking abt food.. mayb cos we been eating china type food for the past weeks so nice to have a change.

Clinic been q busy these days.. tomo gng village! last week also went.. all day trips so far.. but q fun cos we borrow 1 staff fr the other projects.. tomo we borrow TR fr leprosy rehab project to go w us :) real nice to hang out w XM and TR again (we used to be in the same grp in 2005)

this past week was like speed doing dentures for 5 of TR's patients fr leprosy village. V nice uncles and aunty.. v smily tho they have q some disability w limbs and eyes.. impaired eyesight and no fingers and prosthetic legs.. mayb in Sept will get to train her to do some of the denture steps! exciting!

nite!!

wisdom is not the same as intelligence.

wisdom is seen when a man seeks God for answers instead of the ways of the world and his own ways.

the ways of the world and man are insecure. the bricks we use to build our world will constitute its character.

an insecure world is built by insecure bricks. it is only a matter of time. or else the deception can carry them to their grave.

intelligent pple can make foolish choices.

humility and pride. been reading through Chronicles with the girls. God truely always gives grace to those humble enough to repent and ask Him. But pride inevitably leads to ruin and loss. However, some kings choose pride to their grave and their lives end sadly bringing damage to themselves and those around them. How long and how much ruin will it take before we let go of our pride to pursue God humbly and in His terms and not ours..

china blocked blogspot

china blocked blogspot a few months back.. now in USA for 2+ more weeks so can access.. sigh.. bk in china dunno when they will let me access again..

glad

today is a sort of wonderful day. where everything i wished to do occurred. arranged by Him.

had the clinic meeting.
talked w ZF
really wanted to speak w HQ but didnt see him until he suddenly appeared at 4 plus!! got to speak w him. PTL.
did the 2 ops (prayerfully they will heal uneventfully)
went for after work appts. :)

PTL!

Praise the Lord!

!!All heaven rejoice!

Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord!

Glory be to God!
Amen.

trips!

gng to msia in june and idaho for a mth after that!

even tho its a good number of weeks away its still exciting!
can't wait to see idaho in summer! isaac says its beautiful w many wildflowers..

Kunming having cherry season.. i want to go pick them.. hope can arrange for it b4 the season is over but jasmine says after that is yangmei season so maybe still can go..

tomo is good friday! holiday! phew.. like having holidays.. rest at home.. clinic been q full on past few weeks.. but we are finishing treatment for massage class, so maybe will be free again? who knows.. only God knows. :)

student with one brown, one blue eye

here's one of our students with different coloured eyes.. nice guy, plays basketball. we have 3 students like that and 1 student with 2 blue eyes (all chinese). They are all deaf.

here are 2 links to learn more about why pple have diferent coloured eyes. it seems it's a matter of melanocytes not reaching the right place. it may or may not be indicative of a medical condition.

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/353/22/2409

http://www.thetech.org/genetics/ask.php?id=226