The past week ...

Hello! Have been MIA-ing for quite a while. Sorry :/ (For those who don't know what MIA is, it's missing in action) Honestly, I have been really dealing with quite a lot of stuff these past weeks so here I am to share XD

So let's embark on my grueling week haha Or should I say weekS. Anyways, let's begin the story with my driving experience. So, I have been taking driving courses for weeks now and then I was told that I may not be able to sit for my driving exams due to not having at least one month after I got my L-license. How nice. And the appeal for an earlier exam wasn't approved. So it really made my week, in a bad way. But bright side, I may be back end of the year to sit for it. At least that serves as an opportunity or an excuse to come back :)

Moving on, oh I just came back from a weekend away camp at CWC Retreat Centre, Sg. Pinang. No, it's not in Penang lol It's at Bau :) The camp which is EWA '12 (Empowered Weekend Away) was spent there for a 3 days 2 nights trip and is specially organised for school-leavers, namely Form 5 and Form 6 students who have finished their public exams, and also for young working adults. With guest speaker, Andre Ong and the other servants from Empowered, we had a fun-filled week, deepening our faith and reconnecting with God. There are many things that I would say I've learned.

There are:
1) To reconnect with God, we have to reconnect with our earthly Father. This is because with every person we meet, we always have the impression of that person on another person who may have the same name as the person we know. Therefore, if your dad was someone whom you loathed or didn't connect well with, then your connection with God will be equal to that too.

2) To forgive. Forgiveness comes from the heart and to really let go of your past helps to bring or propels one to a brighter future. Grudges would only make one gloomy and dark and that's just not a good vibe or energy or aura or whatever you wanna call it, in life. Hence, if you're stuck in the past, you wouldn't be able to move forward. Another analogy would be if you open up a book and keeps reading the first page over and over again, you'd never know how the storyline goes and even the ending. Ok, I know you'd say "We can just flip to the end" but really? What's the use of knowing the ending when you don't understand the progress or the chronology of the story right?

So, so far I can only say about these 2 things. If I have more, I'd add on somewhere on another post or something. :) But overall, the camp was a fun one. We had games on the second day, along with prayer or alone time, amazing food (mmm pork on the first day YUMMMMM), and I would say that I reconnected with my leaders, namely Ben, Merv and Chu, one way or another. Just having a chat or having fun and games with them or even counselling was great. Having to share experiences and opinions mmm just irreplaceable. I guess that would be the high point of my week before the news of the appeal for the driving exams were released like last Monday LOL Oh well

One more problem was facing accommodation problems for when I'm in Perth. I had only one week to pay for like 22 weeks worth of accommodation fees before I could even go there. And it is AU$155 per week. Hence you do the math, the total would be about AU$3580. My jaw literally just dropped when I saw that amount and my heart had a mini heart attack. Melodramatic-ness? I know haha But yeah, paid for it and all was settled, still waiting for the offer letter though *fingers crossed*

Thus, it pains me to say, hey, I have 10 days more in Kuching, with 5 days gone for Chinese New Year celebration, along with the next few days with meeting up with friends here and there. Hopefully I get to see Tiff this week :) Mmm unable to meet with Josephine but plan to meet up in Perth. Dawn, Joce and a few of us are having supper tomorrow night. Friday maybe meet up with Tiff. And I have YCS tomorrow. Saturday maybe with the Cancer children. Hmm and then Sunday marks CNY eve. Wow. Time pass in a blink of an eye :(

Gosh, so many people have left or are on the way leaving. :/ Most of my batch have gone off to Taylor's in KL (who are getting RM200 book voucher, like seriously? :'( ) And they're having Wong Fu over there, like SERIOUSLY? lol Sorry, jealousy much here. Aside from that, some are in Kuching and doing A Levels, like Dawn and Susan. And then you have some who have flown to Melbourne or UK. Mmm so fastttttt

Guess it's time to really sit down and plan what I should bring and how I'm gonna bring them there. And thankfully, Mama, Dad and Sis are coming along so that means extra luggages! Woo! Details of my flight will not be enclosed here in case of any planning to jeopardise my flight :P

Once again, hopefully everything turns out fine. Janna and Bren are over there already and they're enjoying themselves very much with orientation. Meh. And what I know is that it's uber hot at the moment since it's summer (that means good luck to me) and yeah :S SUNBURNS are very fast to get so yeah, protection with sunblock, checked :)

That's all for now, till another post begins. Ciao

P.S. You've been so busy lately that I don't know how to talk to you anymore. We've lost the bond :( SAD!