my daddy:)
Sunday, August 13, 2006
8th August 2006-- RGS connect dinner committee appreciation dinner, at "Da Chang jin" restaurant at Yes! leisure building, Shenton Way... korean food rox! this was just an example of the spread we had. appetisers! we also had tofu soup with kimchi, BBQ black porkie and beef, and seafood pancake and pumpkin soup!yum yum, thanks Dr Jean!
6th August 2006, sunday- the GIRLS flew in from thailand on saturday, and ommena returned from the states on friday! after 2 months of SSM and electives.. welcome to Singapore babes:)from left: hannah (english), ambika, rebecca( netherlands), kate(scottish),sarah,ommena--they were all ommenas hall mates from yr 1/2, from Glasgow, now they are our friends too!
Sunday, August 06, 2006
The Most Beautiful Gift
When we think the going gets too tough to carry on,
when the roads ahead seem too undefined,
When there is too much disappointment to inspire any hope at all,
When fear overwhelms a lonely soul,
When the enemy strikes,
and you seem like the last soldier standing,
At the point of leaving it all behind....
WHO do we remember?
As fallen human beings in a fallen world, where LOVE seems too corrupted to be true...
Perhaps, we have unknowingly fallen too deep in love with someone called Christ.
Such that any deliberate act--to distance ourselves from Him or His body, might hurt us Deep down inside, in secret places, we may not even realise they exist.
Perhaps, until we pick up bits of courage to be honest to ourselves, i mean, dead honest;that we may discover,
we can no longer live life without Him.
That He means so much more to us that we actually think He does.
That we have A love we know and not just feel.
A love that will propel us to press on in bleak moments
Just for Him.
We don't need to know how much we cherish someone till He is gone.
Life is too short to waste such time.
the answer is inside, if we would be true with ourselves
Don't ever let Him go
when the roads ahead seem too undefined,
When there is too much disappointment to inspire any hope at all,
When fear overwhelms a lonely soul,
When the enemy strikes,
and you seem like the last soldier standing,
At the point of leaving it all behind....
WHO do we remember?
As fallen human beings in a fallen world, where LOVE seems too corrupted to be true...
Perhaps, we have unknowingly fallen too deep in love with someone called Christ.
Such that any deliberate act--to distance ourselves from Him or His body, might hurt us Deep down inside, in secret places, we may not even realise they exist.
Perhaps, until we pick up bits of courage to be honest to ourselves, i mean, dead honest;that we may discover,
we can no longer live life without Him.
That He means so much more to us that we actually think He does.
That we have A love we know and not just feel.
A love that will propel us to press on in bleak moments
Just for Him.
We don't need to know how much we cherish someone till He is gone.
Life is too short to waste such time.
the answer is inside, if we would be true with ourselves
Don't ever let Him go
Saturday, August 05, 2006
Our First Love
Ambika, Saleem and I were sitting in Macs on monday night, chilling out after surveying. some point in time, our conversation drifted to medicine-Lumbar punctures/LPs. the point of debate was: will you, as a medical student administer a LP on a patient in a 3rd world country, after having seen it being done a couple of times?
the proposition says: 1)to save the patients life, yes. 2)an opportunity to gain clinical experience, so why not?
the opposition replies: you will have the opportunity to gain clinical experience/training at some point in time. if you;re gonna become a neurosurgeon ud prob be trained to be very good at it. why do you need to risk the life of a patient just to be able to tell your friends "hey! ive done an LP..."its after all, for your own selfish gain. anyway, its not as if the patient will die without doing an LP.
this is subject to great discussiion, and people will hold different views as we are all free to do so. besides, situations vary- emergency deliveries are one example of a totally different call at that point in time.
But saleem's words struck me on a deeper level, left me thinking for 2 days.
looking back on several occassions... have i sought to place my own selfish gains above the welfare of a patient?
these days, I find in myself falling short of...compassion.
have all the events of the past year left an unwanted impact on me as well?
have i fallen to a level of "just feeling sorry for people" instead of "putting myself in their shoes and empathising?"
I have not gone all cold, but I dont want to be lukewarm either.
I think Christ would display more love, kindness and sensitivity to the needs of people around me-not just the sick, but the abandoned, the broken in spirit, the poor, the orphans, people who need the Lord.
and i guess in times like these, there is no other way but return to the Lord in confession, moulding and to tap on the fountain of ever flowing, perfect love.
There are many things that could break a human's heart-betrayal, abandonment, malice, seperation from a loved one, regret when its only too late, fear, a lack of courage...
what breaks God's heart? a disunited church perhaps, his lost sheep choosing to be lost forever, a corrupted world, sin, his children who reject his love, opression of the poor, broken hearts, his children suffering emotional, physical and mental torture..lukewarmness towards the gospel?
do these things break our heart too?
But even if we do or do not..
i believe it is not guilt, nor is it ignorance that God would like us to focus on.
beyond this is our response to His calling-that constant calling to each and everyone of us out there, that if we were less distracted and more quiet to the spirit's gentle voice, we would hear clearly.
That call to choose to step out of our comfort zone and move forward to complete His will for us.
and isnt His will always out of love for us? a will that never harms, never fails, only prospers..
a step of faith, a leap in the spiritual realms.
the proposition says: 1)to save the patients life, yes. 2)an opportunity to gain clinical experience, so why not?
the opposition replies: you will have the opportunity to gain clinical experience/training at some point in time. if you;re gonna become a neurosurgeon ud prob be trained to be very good at it. why do you need to risk the life of a patient just to be able to tell your friends "hey! ive done an LP..."its after all, for your own selfish gain. anyway, its not as if the patient will die without doing an LP.
this is subject to great discussiion, and people will hold different views as we are all free to do so. besides, situations vary- emergency deliveries are one example of a totally different call at that point in time.
But saleem's words struck me on a deeper level, left me thinking for 2 days.
looking back on several occassions... have i sought to place my own selfish gains above the welfare of a patient?
these days, I find in myself falling short of...compassion.
have all the events of the past year left an unwanted impact on me as well?
have i fallen to a level of "just feeling sorry for people" instead of "putting myself in their shoes and empathising?"
I have not gone all cold, but I dont want to be lukewarm either.
I think Christ would display more love, kindness and sensitivity to the needs of people around me-not just the sick, but the abandoned, the broken in spirit, the poor, the orphans, people who need the Lord.
and i guess in times like these, there is no other way but return to the Lord in confession, moulding and to tap on the fountain of ever flowing, perfect love.
There are many things that could break a human's heart-betrayal, abandonment, malice, seperation from a loved one, regret when its only too late, fear, a lack of courage...
what breaks God's heart? a disunited church perhaps, his lost sheep choosing to be lost forever, a corrupted world, sin, his children who reject his love, opression of the poor, broken hearts, his children suffering emotional, physical and mental torture..lukewarmness towards the gospel?
do these things break our heart too?
But even if we do or do not..
i believe it is not guilt, nor is it ignorance that God would like us to focus on.
beyond this is our response to His calling-that constant calling to each and everyone of us out there, that if we were less distracted and more quiet to the spirit's gentle voice, we would hear clearly.
That call to choose to step out of our comfort zone and move forward to complete His will for us.
and isnt His will always out of love for us? a will that never harms, never fails, only prospers..
a step of faith, a leap in the spiritual realms.
3rd august 2006- the busiest day of the week: 1)went to RGS to teach 2)scooted off at 10am to AH to meet DR sanjay and photocopy more surveys 3)went to raffles place to survey 4)met the juniors for book-buying session 5)met up with saleem and alfred for dinner 6)went to wheelock to meet robin and guys from YAM 7)car ride home with alfred..... oh we bumped into abiel and vic nesh at raffles city. vic nes has lost so much weight! 1/4 of his old size???? i coudlnt recognise him at all! haha he still rmbed me as the "only idiot who kick my b*** during nationals cheerleaders"-I was prob one of the worst flyers with some weird leg thingy that always goes backwards haha.sorry vic! u look good anyway:)somehow it was meet ex RJ people day.
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