It's been ages since I posted in here....recently decided to blog on FB so i'll post my first FB entry here as well hehe -

hmm what to say?  haven't blogged for ages, and my xanga's like left there untouched and gathering dust..

well I have to say that it's so sad to see the Olympics finish =(  the opening ceremony was soo awesome!  and the rest of the games was just heaps good!  GO CHINA!!! haha they did so well this yr.  TOO BAD I'm still in uni, cos if i was out working, I'll definitely take leave to just go to Beijing olympics and watch a few games and hang around.  Can just imagine the atmosphere!  must be so lively and exciting there during this period of time!  oh if only.. haha if only london held it this time and china was next...would have been awesome! once in a lifetime thing...don't know when they'll have Olympics in China again (if ever), or anything big event in china.  ah well

Just realised that my chinese pride has increased drastically recently.  must be all the chinese influence/ my bro/ and going to Chongqing for preceptorship.  just relating my own identity with being Chinese and being proud of it too.  haha too bad need to polish up my mando!  but yea..if you were to ask me who i was going for, maybe 4 yrs ago, I would definitely have gone for the aussies.  but now, I'm definitely cheering China on!  haha how awesome is it to be Chinese =P

Watching the Olympics have made me realise and think about a few things.

Just seeing the people winning GOLD for their country.  after all the years of effort they put in, all the hard work and finally they reap their reward!  the tears of joy and relief of the stress... all expressed and released at the end of the road when they've finally reached the GOLD!  and just as they win, the crowd goes berserk and yells and go nuts that you have won!  and then there's the time for the ceremony, when they stand on the stage, proud to represent their country.  standing there to receive the medal as their national anthem is being played!  and then afterwards, having all the people clapping and  cheering you on.  Now i have imagine what it would be like to be in such an atmosphere.  even imagined what it would be like to be the winner!  such awesomeness!  such glory!  you can just feel how uplifting it would be.

If such glory and joy can be expressed here on this earth, it blows me away to ponder on what it would be like in Heaven!  when all the power and glory is finally given to the One who is deserving of it!  and here we are, THE WHOLE WORLD, cheering for Jesus for the things that He has done for us!  the glory due to Him would be soo immense and too overwhelming to imagine!!  and not only that, but we too will share in His glory, as the sons of God.  Each person will be due to Him for all the sacrifices and all the effort he has put in for God!  Each one will be rewarded by the Almighty and everyone will be encouraged to see what they have done in their lives!  All this was just too amazing and blown me away as I was watching the Olympics.

The second thing that the Olympics triggered me to think is that nothing on this earth will endure forever.  The Olympics, as it seemed like it just started, ended just like that..16 days worth and it finally ends.  And last night as I watched the closing ceremony, I felt a bit empty to see that this cool event, that brings so much excitment and joy, is finally coming to a close and will never happen again.  this emptiness links in with the idea of what we are studying in Friday night bible study.  That the things on this earth is soo temporary.  You have fulfillment and joy while it lasts, but then when it finishes, you ask yourself...what now?  It is just so exciting to know that there will be everlasting fulfillment and joy one day in the future!  something to look forward to!  Something that won't be like the Olympics where the awesomeness was soo great!! but yet only lasted 16 days. then feelings of emptiness follow. Here we are talking about totally awesomeness beyond awesome!! that will last forever!  and that is to spend eternity with our Creator, our Father God!  We will never feel empty and incomplete again!  Thank you Jesus!

damn...i'm missing everyone already, and i haven't even left..

ah tonight was a good night =) study hard pplz!

so i thought i'll revise some of my colour vision notes for tmw.  Got bored and laid down on the sofa next to my mum where she was sitting there listening to some music.  She was like...oh i thought you finished all your exams. So do you still have some left?  and I was like....hmm no exams.  then she was like, then why are you holding your notes?

and im just roflz....its funny cos it's soo true.  even my mum has noticed it.  it's only at exam times when i kinda read my notes... and so to her, if i'm holding notes, then it means i have an exam soon. its as if i won't revise my notes if it weren't for exams....well i just proved her wrong haahhaah

anyway so much has happened in the past wk...cbb to recap much

just thought i'd mention how the clinic at uni for checking children is really cool.  Like you really see how concerned parents are for their children and how they care so much about their own children.  there was a kid that we checked for her visual processing skills.  she is in yr 3 (8yrs old) but then the results showed that her visual processing is just equivalent to a kid at 4yrs old.  it's kinda sad to see how bad she was doing.  and her mum already knew that the kid had some problems, but was jst soo lost in what she should do.  it looked like she was going to break down when our supervisor was explaining the results to her.  but yeaa you can just see that when we explain things to the parents, you just see how much concern they have and how much struggles they prob have been through trying to raise their kids in the right way.  hmm one day i'll find out what it's like to be a parent.  the concern and worry for your kids, just hoping that they will grow up to be a good competent person. ahhh can't wait to have kids lol!

anyway optom's pretty cool in the sense that you meet all these kinda ppl.  last time at the clinic, checking this kid who came in with his dad.  so i thought i'll just try to talk with the dad while my partner were doing some tests to keep him from being too bored.  somehow we got on to the topic of how he is part of the police.  so i asked ohhh what do you do? like are you one of those that direct traffic or like catch speeding cars?  and then he was like....nah i'm one of those body guard that guards important ppl that usually comes from overseas.  so he goes on to saying how he was there for APEC last yr etc. and i was just thinking to myself.....whoops....haha kinda degraded him......so you never know whos in the consultation room. might be some interesting ppl with interesting stories.

just like how at work last wk, i was serving this customer and i sat him down and looked at his file.  it says that he's a captain and I'm like ohhh so your a captain, is that like for driving planes?  and he was like umm no..I'm Captain of the army force.  and i was like o.o  ....lost for words..... hahah it's just that you can never tell these things from their appearance!  my optom later told me that the Captain was part of some war in Iraq awhile back and he like a bomb explode really close infront of him....haha interesting stories that you can hear....can't wait til i come out to work and get to interact with these patients!!!

having an interesting talk about worship/ praise with Ed at the moment... when i should be studying

Os, you should have a chat with him too. haha  man im soo reminiscing about the philippines trip and the awesome worship we had there...where its not about the music or anything...but abt the heart...where our worship come from