Let this be the last, Lord

TRUST in the Lord with all your heart

and LEAN NOT on your own understanding;

in all your ways ACKNOWLEDGE Him,

and He will make your paths STRAIGHT.

- Proverbs 3: 5-6

TRUST and OBEY, for there's no other way

to be happy in Jesus, but to TRUST and OBEY.

Daniel is feeling...

Stupid.

I guess it's one of those times you feel like you're not needed. The whole world can do without you and everyone will keep smiling. Haha. Oh well. :)

Birthday Celebrations

Just returned from an impromptu birthday dinner celebration for Joey, Shalom and Cheryl. Almost didn't want to go cos I had wanted to rest at home after church. But I went anyway and it was well worth the trip.

Fish & Co. glasshouse! The food is not fantastic but at least they've got an interesting Birthday Rap going. Joey Shalom and Manna were made to stand on their chairs. :)



At the end of the dinner, someone sabo'ed me by submitting my name to the waitress to sing a song on stage. Of cos i refused. Where got ppl perform without practice one? But the performers on stage called out for my name anyway.



SO there it is, my first public debut without practice. In fact I didn't even know the lyrics. Thankfully the performers were good, and they helped me out with the entry and lyrics. But it was fun nonetheless! Hoho

All in all, I'm home late again. And I need to rest. Thanks to eliz for the vids. And before i sleep, once again Happy Birthday Joey, Shalomie and Manna! :))

Yoyo!!

Went to see Jo (my manager's) baby girl Shih Ann on Sat morning! Hmm another "Ann", I realized. So cute! But so small and fragile looking. We were all given turns to carry the baby, and it's my first time carrying a 20 day old infant. But I'm proud to say she slept the soundest in my arms, haha. I ended up carrying her for such a long time, that I didn't even know when my arms had cramped.

Junie, Jo, Me, May, Emily and Gary.
With, of cos, baby Shih Ann.

The team without the boss!

Think carry infant and smile for camera so easy?

On a sadder note, we sent Frances off to Hong Kong on Sun after church. Brought the whole gang over and that helped to make up the 40 odd farewell party'ers.

Bye Frances and have fun!

Its strange, but work is therapeutic.

"State of enlightenment" eh?

It Of Out Snap

Its funny how trying to be nice can turn back to bite you on the backside sometimes. Nonetheless, that helped to clear my thoughts over the last 1 month a bit. The Chalet was fun though. Didnt eat much, 2 x hotdog, 1 x otah, 2 x satay, 1 x fishball, 1/4 x plate of potato salad, 1 x plate of beehoon with super spicy curry. Thanks to the organisers! The overnighters played Singapore version Taboo at 11.30pm whilst waiting for OCX, Karen and Gail to return. I got over-excited once and laughed quite loudly. And I got sore throat after that. 1 hour later, we kinda got bored and started chatting. Well, actually only Lebby and Wei2 were chatting and Isaiah was part timing the conversation. The light was off and very soon, everyone started to fall asleep. Except Leb and Wei2. In my semi-conscious state I could hear the conversation la, and was awoken by Leb's super loud laughter and Wei2's super high pitch shriek.

When OCX, Karen and Gail returned it was 2.45am already! And Leb and Wei2 were still chatting! So we tiredly made our way to Soyabean place anyway. It was fun and we slept about 4plus. Had to wake up for church at 7.30am.

Whilst waiting for the food

Woooooorrrr..

This is good cos it' s long brown and.. it floats on water. Hehe :))

Now back home, tired and all. Hadn't caught any extra sleep but I should think I'll be sleeping early tonight for work tmr! 5 days of work again! Weeee..

Oh, it seems I've got some affinity with tortoises lately. I got some gifts recently and they're all tortoises (stuffed toys). Thanks though! Really appreciate 'em.

First Day

Its kinda a few first days today. My first day of work!! But not much la, cos I was induced to join the induction session lasting 3 days for NINETY new hires today. My name wasn't on the list due to some mess ups, but in the end I had to sit through the entire day of lectures. Most of which I had heard before 1.5 yrs ago, with a little updates of cos. What made it worse was the fact that I had a flu and headache the whole day. My nose was a runny tap the whole morning. Interestingly, I met a new hire who would be joining me in the same team as well. And I didn't even know there was another hire in the same team prior to meeting him, so when I found out we had the same manager, I was like "What the..". Cool though! Also, I met a "Cain" early this morning, and the next person I introduced myself to was an "Abel". Interesting haha :)

Anyway, I'll be at my desk tomorrow at last. The induction will continue next Tues. Thank God! But I'm going to have an early nights rest to recover as much as I can before tomorrow.

Another first day would be a first day at my new house in Khatib. I've finally moved back to the north!! "Yippeeee.." as Algene would exclaim with me. I left my house for work from Jurong this morning and headed straight for Khatib for the return train in the evening. A pity I couldn't help my parents with the move, but thank God the movers from Breakthrough Ministry were quite efficient, or so I heard. I've been trying to help put everything back in place and enduring the dusts, so I reckon my condition has worsened quite a fair bit. Another lament would be, my DIY'ed workstation table has turned into my parent's coffee table in the living room because they thought it was nice! Right.. Now I need to get another one. That table costed me 1 blister on my right middle finger anyway.

Need to shower and sleep now. Another long day again tmr.
Special thanks to those who wished me well for today! :)))

It's been a long time since I had an unhappy post. :)
So here's one.

Recently, I've been really upset with myself. For many reasons such as not being strong, resilient, determined enough. Not being disciplined to do what i REALLY need to do. Making all the wrong choices one after another, and doing so poorly in my various areas of service. I need to make it right again, but I need time. And I pray that God have mercy on me, cos I'm really sorry for having willingly chosen to enter this pit. Indeed it's true, I am weak. I thought I was different, that I was stronger, but I'm just a helpless lad. :(

Anyway I need to get myself back to normal. 2 weeks. Anti-brood Daniel reborn :)

Oh and Joey, Rachel and Eliz bought me some gifts today to cheer me up though! Thanks! Just let me say "I'm sorry" here and now, just in case I pass my broodism to anyone in my current state.