onion rings
Welcome to my desk full of life. haha.
My favourite is nappy the frog which is in a boiling pot.
Well you can see that I was restless at about 10pm, still in the office.
My colleague, Juliana, who sits with me
couldnt suppress herself and started singing at the top of her voice
very suddenly.
Pardon the blood shot eyes and dark eye rings.
Just imagine those as onion rings.
Goodnight good people.
Should I or should I not?
I know Ive already blogged not too long ago,
but please, dear people,
help me decide if I should cut my hair.
Should I or should I not?
JOLIN THE BIRTHDAY GIRL
And so we celebrated the I-that-broke-through-the-roof’s birthday today (:
In all honesty, I was really anticipating the fellowship and food that we were going to share!
And I wasnt let down in both 
Presenting the birthday girl to you,
Am pleasantly surprised that our friendship didnt end at the retreat
Never thought that my endurance for an ‘I’ could last that long
But I secretly hope that my endurance would be forever
Cause Jolin is reaaally a good friend to have
and I would love to keep her by my side, or in my pocket for that matter.
Kay, Jolin, you can move that dagger away from my spine now.
We ordered a BTO birthday cake for her!
Yea, Build to Order GRIN
Look at those colors!!
May our friendship blossom till we grow old darling.
You know what?
Jason wanted to pay for our Starbucks meal with his card,
both NETS and Mastercard,
but the NETS machine at Starbucks broke down.
At the end of the day, after holding up the queue behind him,
with many people trying to peek over his shoulders to see what was happening,
our meal was on the house!
And so we decided that Starbucks has social responsibility heh heh,
but exclusively at The Cathay only.
**Jason and I will be dining at a glorious place tomorrow, stay tuned!
Im gona start being me starting TODAY!
There were 3 words I could used to describe me in the past
Excellence, Passion, Color.
I put in my best in everything I did
but I didnt like the high expectations which branded me.
As I grew up
I became tired and wary of how people looked at me
They always expected the best of me
which many a times I thought I couldnt match up
I wanted to be like so and so,
I couldnt bring myself to be me.
The mavis who loved art colors and music
but suppressed the passion so that she could blend in with the crowd
I didnt like to stand out so I could make myself fair just ok
make it just a little above the mark
so that I wouldnt be noticed.
When I decided to take on Yahlan’s offer to take a break from leadership
I thought, finally, I dont have to lead in any way anymore.
The more I wanted to step down from the high profile
the more I died on the inside.
What Jason and Shaun said really carved something in me
that I am sunshine
that God’s gift will always emerge and come running back to me even no matter how much I try to shut it behind the door and lock it up with chains and padlocks.
Today while I was surfing through blogs,
a sudden faith came back into my heart.
I feel like new wineskin.
I feel like a changed person.
I want to be who I was, and even better,
I want to be who God made me to be.
God is a God of second chances,
and this day shall be a day that Mavis comes back.
And here we are,
2.5hours to Jason’s birthday! (:
Another encounter with weird colleagues
I needed 3 colleagues to hint to me that somebody did something to my monitor
I was almost drowning in work, running to and fro my desk and the photocopier,
didnt notice it!
After everyone laughed at me for not noticing it,
they did it the second time.
Why why..why do I have colleagues like these.
2 more days to Cookie’s birthday!
OH MEE GOSH
WHY DID WE EVER AGREE TO DO THIS?!
spot Hazel, Jolin, Shirleen and me!
cant see?
ZOOM IN!!
ARGHHH!!
WHY WHY WHY?!?!?!
Refresh 20-22 Sep 2009
It was alittle rushed while preparing for this adult camp,
not knowing whats going to happen,
no one to ask for whats gona be in store.
But I was prepared,
prepared to laugh with the friends I love,
prepared to break away from work.
But one thing that slipped my mind,
was to be prepared to meet God in a special way.
I was thinking that its normal to receive God with a big bang,
or like a huge meaty Word that was gona slam right in my face.
But, nope.
He taught me something in such a subtle way,
but it brewed the different spectrums of my emotions
into a lesson learnt,
a character expanded in me.
I learnt to love and accept people who literally whacked me physically
and hurt me emotionally.
The first sermon that Pst Zhuang preached was on
The Second Touch
that we should go beyond wanting only touches,
or be satisfied with the first touch we had the first time we knew God,
but to be changed.
Our lives should not stay at the first touch, but to be changed by God.
Awesome,
but I didnt exactly feel that the Word was from me.
After SOT,
there are almost close to no chances of morning praise & worship sessions, with preaching and ministry time.
Not including churchwide morning pm cause Im hardly awake.
But this was a bring-back moment for me,
on the second and third day.
This is what I told God in Monday’s session.
“Thank You for giving me life
Thank You for giving me a God to love
Take this as my vow
that no matter what I do
Its no longer for myself
because You gave me life
and I shouldnt fight for it cause it doesnt belong to me.
I will not reject nor suspect
But I will trust You, I will wait on You.
This life is no longer my own
And I pledge to wait on You and serve You all the days of my life
Thank You for loving me
But thank You more for giving me a chance to love You.”
Right after I made my vow,
I felt the presence of God swarm all over me
I cried and I cried
Because I know God heard me
deep in my heart
He really heard it from the depths of my heart.
I felt comfort and peace come into my heart
that this waiting period, like what Pst preached
was for my character to be moulded,
if not,
I would have never been humbled
and see the hand of God moving in my life.
Friends are important,
not only for companionship,
but for spiritual guidance and comfort.
Knowing that the friends you love are willing to go on their knees for the same God that you bow down to
is the most amazing feeling in the world.
I think Pst might think that we have been stalking him the entire trip!
He called me chunmei and I laughed.
Both he and Haze asked me why I had that reaction.
Hmm, haha.
Maybe I just feel tickled that Pst called me by my name!
I felt a sudden rush!
If God really calls me by my name out loud,
I think I would have exploded into smitherins.
So at the end of the day,
other than non stop laughter with haze
and the talk leen and I had in our room,
other than taking time off singapore
and off work,
other then being able to talk to Pst Zhuang
and trick him that Jolin’s earl grey tea was cognac,
I think I have fallen in love with Abba all over again.
Seacret
While I was working overtime at work today,
I received an sms
“..bought something for you.”
When I met up with Jason after 10pm,
he was holding the huge plastic bag of..
If you have seen my skin, especially on my legs,
you will know how much I need these skincare products!
And he told me that the little packets of eye gel and face mask
came as free gifts thrown in by the lady boss
cause she was pleasantly surprised that these are bought for a girlfriend
cause not many people will spend so much on others.
(: (: (:
So Im so happy and happy and happy!
Thank you PUPU!!
