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God's Child =) at 10:54:00 PM

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

hey everyone, yes, i know, FINALLY.

i've been really really busy, its insane, work is driving me nuts, im supposed to have an exam today but i decided to give school a miss because i think ill be able toget alot more done at home than at school. see when you make these kind of decisions it means you are either very stressed or you've gone mad. or, its probably a combination of both. ill still be able to take my exam when i come back to school though so no worries, its quite flexible.

i havent seen you guys in AGES. i dont know why im so busy sometimes, thanks for asking, for your smses, im really proud of all of you, especially karen for pulling all of this together. thanks lemeul for asking about the UN thing, it took up my entire weekend actually thats why i wasnt in church on saturday and sunday sometime back. it was held at NTU and basically every participant represents a country in the UN, for me, i was representing Uganda in the African Union so it was lots of prep work and you've got to be alert and listening throughout the whole conference which lasted about 10 hours a day for two days straight. but it was fun nonetheless, food was really really good too, plus point!

what else have i been up to? theres just too much to say, i really dont know why im so tied down. i'd love to come for yf if i could but sometimes you really just cant. like last week i had to organize a house outing for my entire house cos im a house rep, it was..lots of work and it took up the entire day. ill be coming for yf this saturday though, FINALLY right? haha, but i've got to rush off after yf because of a study session. i've got CTs coming up really soon, already started but it'll last for the next two weeks so that means more studying, more late nights and more eyebags.

i've also been very very unfortunate. lets see, im sure all of you know about my finger infection? a wart grew so it had to be removed, my daddy burnt it off and so now there are two holes on my finger, one is alot smaller and its pretty much healed, the other is still quite..RAW. its really gross you can see the inside of my finger and when i put it straight up, it looks like something bit part of it off. ahh but its healing so it should be fine soon. also, i landed up with TWO eye infections, first on the right one which made it really hard to see and to blink because it was so painful. thank God i started on antibiotics and the swelling went down so it was fine. then after that the left eye came down with an infection too, this time it hurt even more and i could see something growing! this was worse too because my dad had to PRICK it, it was quite a truamatic process. you're not supposed to move your eyeball, cant blink, nothing, when he's poking the sty or the needle might scratch your cornea or something. i couldnt stop yelping and howling, it was so painful and so uncomfortable and then when it was finally done, there was blood coming out of my eye, it was quite a sight (then again, i couldnt really see, sigh). yes, all sorts of strange things have been happening to me, like a ear infection as well which needed pricking too but that one didnt really hurt and its fine now. it was terrible, terrible...

mmm..that aside, lets see what else i have coming up.i've got two research papers to write, one for KI and one for LIT H3, both are for the A levels and are due in the third term which doesnt give me much time really. also, i've got elections and elects camp coming up for the new council batch whcih needs organizing as well, theres also the arts and social science quiz organized by NUS soon which im really scared because i dont know much at all and we're competing with all the big schools, then theres the leadership symposium which takes up all my thursday evenings till night where we have to go down to the parliament for training and mundane things like learning how to write a bill. uhh, theres also pre university seminar that i have to prepare for coming up soon, its crazy work that one, dont even want to think about it, and in between, theres soccer training, high jump training, lots of homework and common tests to study for. its going to be quite a suffocating period for me so please undrrstand if i come for yf looking deadtired, because i really am:(

but as tired as i am, im still happy and proud to be in this group, all of you are so encouraging,really. keep it up okay? ill try and join you guys this saturday morning (happy birthday in advance sean!) but i've got a study session in the mornign too so ill see what i can do about it, havent really gotten down to talking and meeting all of you in a group. ah well, for what is worth, really, keep at this and it'll be a great year as a group. ill be off now, back to writing my essays, all the best to those with CTs too, its tough but we'll all pull through yes?

see you around everyone!

rachel

God's Child =) at 3:13:00 PM

Sunday, February 18, 2007

hi all!
haha i haven been blogging as i was busy with common test for e past 2 weeks.
i must say e papers wasn't easy but thank God for bringing me through them all.
haha i guess i haven been revising so always last minute pia >.<
today is cny but sadly i am down with flu.
all e new year goodies seems tasteless :/
pray for me, i wan to recover soon!
haha yeah got to go le.
seeya.
rossellini

God's Child =) at 8:18:00 AM

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

hey guys!!!

i heard from xiao fen that we should blog more often..the prob. is that i do not have much time but i will still try to ok?

im having my test two weeks later so pray for me ok? i have a hard time learning my science. not really very hard! :P i have to remember a lot of things man!!damn tiring..some more got training i would not even have the brains to think(:lol.

hope that God could grant me the time management to manage my time for my studies.

pray for me,

sean

God's Child =) at 10:23:00 PM

Monday, February 12, 2007

Hello! ok our group blog is dying!!! is everyone so busy? haha i am, currently having my common tests. Todays paper was on HISTORY =( i dun like that subject but no choice...yeah ok i shall help to revive this blog =D
i want to thank GOD for allowing me to get good results for my English and Maths common tests
i didn't really study. and i got a new classmate =) her name is Jenny. She's kinda ok.
but most of my classmates are being wary of her dunnoe why.

yeps that alls i gotta go and do my compo if not I'll have to burn midnight oil hahaha... oh yeah i am going for the last tournament match tomorrow! its against boon lay sec. i sure hope we win
okok signing off
xiaofen =D

God's Child =) at 6:02:00 PM

Monday, February 05, 2007

Hi!!! ok... i finally have the time to post the pictures. Yeah there is a lot more...but these are the better taken ones. so yeah i hope your enjoy it =)

well if you wanna change the captions... you may cause i really don't know wad to say... hahaha

lol i don't know what caption i should use??

YAY!! Ross and I won!! hahaha this is only the first round =D.

1) Rossellini & Xiao Fen
2) Benjamin & Lemuel
3) Karen & Sean

OUR GROUP!!! (with missing people)

ok... this time we didn't win but look we got a strike. Benjamin & Lemuel won!!!

1)Benjamin & Lemuel
2)Joan & Hilda & Rossellini & Xiao Fen

Aaron's cool pose! (he gets strike or a spare everytime he does that.)

* BANG *

This ball is HEAVY!!! "

" Is it going into the drain? "

" Full swing! Gimme a spare! "

" yay! we are leading!"

~Xiao Fen =D

God's Child =) at 8:08:00 PM

Heyy all!

Indeed we should all thank God that He has put us together in this group, LOVE. Have you ever wondered why we were put together as a group for this year at least? We may not know the answer now ... but just bear in mind that everything, I mean EVERYTHING, happens for a purpose. You may not know what's the purpose now, maybe 6 months later, maybe when we change groups, or peharps even never. But just remember that all things work together for good to those that LOVE Him.

just some food for thought.

Since this is like the starting of the week I've got nothing much ... just that for some of you who weren't there for Sat's prayer meeting I got into National Team, thank God for that. I've been trying really hard to catch up with my school homework and stuff. Problem is that the teachers just go on and on but they never give us the time to absorb what's being taught ... really bad for students like me who don't go for any tuition classes.

QT has been going down(let me calculate the gradient ... hm.=P). Yeah. It's always a struggle to keep close to God, but let me say this, that this struggle is worth it all. So yupp, press on and continue to pray for each other! I'll pray for you guys! (:

Remember what Karen said in our first group newsletter? Prayer is power! So let us not forget to talk to God each day ... not that He needs us to pray to Him, WE need Him to talk to.

And remember CTYF prayer meeting every saturday @ 3pm! Don't worry if you come slightly late, you can always just join in.

Oh Rachel I heard that you had that UN thingy on Sunday? How did it go?

Okay I think that's all for now. I'm going to have a really busy, packed and tough week, God willing. How about you people?

-Lemuel

P.S: Karen you forgot to put my name in the roles list ...

God's Child =) at 6:24:00 PM

Sunday, February 04, 2007

hello, poor alvin has food poisoning so he wasn't alble to come to church today along with the newsletter.

Here's this weeks's issue!

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1 Corinthians 12: 4-8
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not

tself, is not puffed up. Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,

is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth

in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth

all things. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophesies, they shall fail;

whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall

vanish away.

Dear everybody in AI,

This week passed by so quickly for me that I can’t seem to recall what happened! I guess the many tests and trainings just drain my energy that I don’t seem to want to do anything. In a way, I have been neglecting my QT by giving excuses that I’m too tired or too busy. I’m ashamed now that I look back. I’ll have to pull myself back on track! I hope you guys are still reading your bible everyday and keeping close to God. Please pray for me! God has been really good to me even though I neglected Him. If you’ve been reading the group blog, I lost my wallet. But thankfully it was found with everything intact. God is good!

I’m so happy that I’ve got such a wonderful group mix of people in my group. I want to thank all of you for being so enthusiastic during group discussions and outing. I hope we can have another group outing this Feb. even though we’re all so busy. *Hint hint, Outing i/c! I’m still a bit sad that we had to scrap group prayer meetings on Sunday. But no worries because there’s prayer meeting on sat @ 3pm now! So do make it a point to come earlier for prayer meeting okay?!

Michelle and Rachel, are you two still super duper busy? I miss you girls! And I’m sure everybody would like to see you coming for YF and our group outings! Do share with us what’s happening to you on the group blog at least (:

Do you know that everyone in the group has a role?

Karen – Group Leader and chairing coordinator

Benjamin – Assistant Group Leader and Outing i/c

Alvin – Newsletter Editor

Michelle – welfare-cum-birthday cards i/c (We have birthdays coming up!)

Rachel – Games i/c

Lemuel - Photographer

Rossellini – Blog master

Xiao Fen – Blog master

Xin Hao – Outing i/c

Sean – Outing i/c

Hilda Tay – welfare i/c

So now that you know your role, go do your job!

Agape, Karen

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God's Child =) at 8:19:00 PM