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Sunday, December 31, 2006
5:30 PM

OKAY.
Blogger hung my computer and my entire entry is GONE! :(

So once again..
REFLECTIONS.
Summarized.

January
Embarked on the ACJC ACSperience. Orientation was one of the most exciting things to hit me in my exploration of Junior College life. Drama elective. KI.
CNY with 4e6ixers at Mr K Ang's and Mr Ang WJ's.

February
Birthday with 4e6 clique. (: Candy machine. Presents from CG that included turtle.
Valentine's Day with delivery via Von and WY to the TJCians and Victorians.
O level results. 7 points, English A2. Disappointment.
The terrible see-sawing between AC and TJ begins.
Chose AC.

March
Appealed to TJ.
Culture shock.
Jason Mraz concert.
Joined band again. Horror! Mingjie was one of my first impressions of the band. I'll leave you to figure out if that was a good or bad thing. LOL.

April
Settling into TJ. Starting to enjoy 33/06. Helping Rishik run for council and hiding my face in my hands everytime he tried to be a rebel.
Played with TJCSB for Mardi Gras. Felt the tingle, the beginnings of the magic.
TPJC Oratorical. Met interesting people like Ahnaf. Hee.

May
Stage band prep, many late nights in school. The utterly embarassing annoucement we did to promote Prelude 26.
Prelude 26. Many many presents/flowers. Blossoming of TJCSB magic. Could not leave the band after that even if I wanted to.
Elections. PAP won.
290 rounds with TJCSB. We are one band *clap clap* TJ Band.
Pre-U Sem starts.

June
Pre-U Sem ends. Met great people. And one who eventually made me a very happy girl.
Enjoyed myself very much.
SMUN. Uh, did not enjoy myself very much.
My first band BBQ. Pool dunking maximus.
TKGSAX BBQ.
Bought my Samsung z540.
JCTs. :S

July
JTS at Swensens.
TKGSSB in concert.
Cosfest, met up with many old friends even though I abhor events.
TJCSB gets FIRST in the National Band Competition. w00! Yay for alumni.
JCT results. AACDDE. Relatively boring month.

August
33/06 starts doing our crazy YouTube videos thing.
Watched the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice and fell in LOVE!
Played for National Day.
33/06 Lord of the Rings marathon at my place! Fun fun fun tiring fun.
Went for the 93.8FM dialogue in my school and got to meet NEIL HUMPHREYS.
Got his autograph and all, tall chap. Awesome. (:
International Lefties Day!!!
Lizzy's first (painful) attempt at doing the Right Thing.
Did my 4e6 Teachers' Day video.
Teachers' Day at TK. Chilling out with Schwa and Krys (missin' Floss).
Alpha House function. Eye-sores in the form of bad gyrating males. LOL.

September
COCKROACHES IN THE TOILET.
Breakfast at Nadia's. (:
AC DEP's Inventio.
Forbidden City. Lizzy in her pretty black dress, Kit in shirt and jeans. MEMORABLE. Both the incident and the musical.
Intense mugging begins. Much sleeping ensues.

October
Promos start.
Promos end!
Painted banner, had fun with the girls. X)
Open House. Percussion ditties rule.
It began.
Tanning attempt at Sentosa. Fried.

November
A honeymoon month.
The torture that is commonly refered to as PROJECT WORK ends.
BINTAN leadership camp. Mutant mosquitos. Toilet holes. Fun.
Our little 'WALK' at McRitchie that wasn't so much a walk as it was a hike.
Band tune-in. Fish & Co with 33/06.
UK!!!! (: (:

December
Band camp. Fiesta Groove!
HistoryMakers6ix.
And so it ends.
Christmas brunch at Conrad.
Much chillin'. More 33/06 luuurve.

So yes. IT HAS BEEN A GOOD YEAR.
VERY VERY GOOD.
2006, truly the year of acceleration.
One of the busiest and bestest years of my short seventeen years of existence.

Christmas THANKYOUS;
All the Christmas sms wishes from everyone.
Floss, Eric, Schwa, Sherlene, Krys (whose card I liked the most), Darry (whose handwriting is too neat for a guy) and Amitha for the cards.
Mom for the sheep and upgraded broadband, Sis for the chio watch, Kit for yet another turtle, Ken for a different breed of turtle, Dad for the $$, Rishik for the uh, chopstick set and bracelet and the guitar loan and Jason for BBC's Pride & Prejudice on DVD. x) Much love!
And oh, smack me on my tagboard if I've forgotten to include you.

So, it's the 31st of December.
Service at the indoor stadium today was great.
All about reminding us that God doesn't want us to worry, He wants us to enjoy, and rest.
He used the example of bringing his daughter to Disneyland as an example, one that I could relate to having been on countless family holidays as a child.
I'm always left to enjoy my activities, take my roller-coaster rides, have lots of great fun, and Mom settles everything else. She looks after the hotels, the meals.. I don't have to worry about anything except enjoying myself.

God wants us to be like that in life too, because He's our Abba, our Daddy God, and He made us to enjoy this God-given, Jesus-redeemed, blessed, favoured, grace saturated life. So rest and RELAX! for 2007 because God is in control man.

After all, He's God, His hands are so much greater than yours. If you don't leave God to do it, then you do meh? You think you can even do a job that might even be comparable to the standard of what He could possibly do for you? C'mon, just leave it to Him.. (:

Worry-free life. Life of rest, life of thanksgiving, life of praise.
And 2007 will be a year of fulfilment.
I want to be so full, so rested, so blessed.
Right now I'm so hungry yet so full.
I want more, more and more of Him yet I'm bursting to give out of the overflow of His blessings.
It was especially poignant to me that Pastor said 2007 would be the year of the Sabbath. God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh.
In this 7th year of the 21st century I will rest. It's so precious to me because 2007 is when us 1989 babies will take our 'A's. The world may strive, and mug their butts to bone, and go crazy with stress, but Lizzy, the child of God, will rest in her Abba's overwhelming love for her.

Resting doesn't mean not working, it just means working with the revelation and knowledge that God is in control man. I don't need to control my own destiny, I don't even want to. Because His plans for me are greater than anything I can see beyond the short-sightedness of my vision.

It's going to be GREAT. (:

And when Pastor told us to pray for 3 things that we want for 2007, (I obviously have more than 3, but we already wrote them all down on the little post-its at my place during the combined EastB/WestB Christmas gathering) the vision that God placed in my mind was that of TJCSB getting GwH for SYF. I saw us in the Singapore Conference Hall, hugging, cheering and laughing. I could almost feel the happy tears running down my cheeks.

Then the seed of scepticism crept in. What if you're just dreaming? What if you're just creating pictures for yourself in your head? Remember what happened in TK? You kept saying you'd get Gold with Honours too, but look at you guys... you only got a gold...

So I hesistated, but you know what? Why do I have such little faith? Because I've been disappointed once? But God's going to fulfil all my wishes, my dreams, all over again this 2007. Isn't my God bigger than the failure of TK not getting GwH for SYF'05?
This failure plagues us all, the members of the TJCSB family who once belonged to TKGSSB. Because we remember how raw it was to cry outside the bandroom for more than 2 hours after the news was broken to us.

But this is a different ball game. Same great God, and I don't know or care how it's going to come to pass, but I'm going to take this step of faith and say, thank you Lord, I believe it, and I receive it, for TJCSB, that this victory shall be ours, and it shall be sweet, and it shall be Yours.

11 May 2007. Here we come. (:

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