"Leave early," Dad said. Hah. I could've told him it wouldn't happen. "That way, if anything happens along the way, you have the whole day to sort it out." Wise words, forward-thinking words (Dad is wonderful when it comes to...
Sometimes I feel that God doesn't want to answer my prayers. You know, like I have no problem praying for others to be healed and believing that He'll heal them, but when it comes to me, I just do not...
I think I might have gotten shock absorbers from Dad as a birthday present this year. (Two years ago it was a car headlamp.) Granted, my birthday's only on the 25th, but after telling the mechanic to replace the shock...
I've just gotten back from the annual Sunrise Jazz & Rhythm Fest. My head is feeling funny. Either I drank too much Coke (two cans!), or the McDonald's sundae is to blame. Used to be that we'd go for the...
10:15am Phone alarm clock: "Teet teet! Teet teet! Teet teet!" Sunflower: *One hand stretched out from the bed, groping for elusive phone* Sunflower: *mutters* "Where is that stupid thing?!" *fingers detect phone* *cancels alarm* Sunflower: *opens one eye and peers...
I went to church on Saturday and to my great relief, realised something: I can still worship. This may not sound like a big deal to you, but it is comforting to me because it shows me that I'm not...
Barely 5 minutes after I left the house this morning, the car engine overheated. AGAIN. I was waiting at a traffic light when I saw the temperature gauge needle climbing and climbing. I freaked out; I knew I couldn't stop...
I was talking on ICQ with a friend last night, who was trying to convince me to stop feeling guilty and just enjoy porn. What on earth--?? He also, like Messy Christian, is of the opinion that masturbation is not...
I was having lunch with a friend, Joshua Raj, whom I was also interviewing for one of my articles... and the photographer didn't turn up. "There goes the glamour and the fame," Joshua mourned. "You want glamour and fame? Send...
When Christ said: ''I was hungry and you fed me,'' he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and...
Guess what's the theme of this year's Young Adults Camp, organised by my church? The Journey. Given where I am and what I'm going through, how appropriate is that?!? I've been looking out and waiting for the camp, and it's...
One of the things I can't know for sure is how my present decisions will affect my future. In Every Woman's Battle, author Shannon Ethridge has case studies of women who have viewed porn, and who subsequently found themselves unable...
Today, for the first time in three months, I opened my Bible and READ IT. I mean seriously read it, not counting those times in church and cell group meeting when I didn't really have a choice. I woke up...
Now I have so many candidates, I have to start numbering them. Candidate #1. Otherwise known as the match-making victim, this fella takes weeks to reply email. I am SO not kidding. In the latest development, after 5½ weeks of...
I decided to pick more guys' brains about Candidate #1's strange behaviour. I asked Viceice: "If a guy replies text messages a few days later, what's going on in his head?" Answer:He's normal and put it off and forgot until...
Tonight I was at dinner with an old friend plus two other people, one of whom is a girl I met briefly only once, about two years ago. She only knows me as 'Sunflower'. My friend asked the million-dollar "How's...
I believe many people all over the world have been praying for me; some of you have never even left a comment in this blog, nor sent me email, but have been quietly praying for me over the past three...
I am freaking out because I just installed x3watch on my computer and asked my assistant cell group leader, N, to keep me accountable for my Internet activities. The x3watch programme will log any "questionable sites" I visit on the...
I was in a car accident this afternoon. I was in the middle lane, going at maybe 60kph, when a motorcyclist suddenly stopped right in the middle of my path. I braked but couldn't stop in time, and before I...
Yesterday, I got an email that led me to dig up this archived post. The email was from John Forgetta, one of the creators of the comic strip The Meaning of Lila, which I'd used in that post: Thank you,...
In the midst of all the stress, you know what? Dad has been simply wonderful. I called him on Friday afternoon to tell him about the accident, gave him the bare bones and assured him I was all right. He...
I'm trying to get back into the habit of talking to God when I wake up in the morning. This morning I didn't even want to get out of bed; just thinking of the week ahead made me want to...
Walking out from my housing area to the main road in the mornings to hail a taxi is reminding me of how I used to walk around and take buses everywhere when I was a college student. It's also reminding...
My church cell group celebrated my birthday tonight. We have a tradition of each saying something encouraging to the birthday person or speaking a "blessing" to him/her, and I was touched by all the things they said. (A "blessing" is...
All you guys who sent me belated wishes... you weren't late lah. My birthday is today, the 25th of August. It's just that our church cell group meetings are on Wednesdays, so the cell group celebrated my birthday a day...
Once upon a time, a group of bloggers got together and began chatting over MSN Messenger. Malaysia's Independence Day was fast approaching, and in a fit of patriotism, insanity, mischief and jiak bar bo kang jo-ness (Hokkien for "stomach already...
We have a piano! We have a piano! One of Sharon's relatives has given her a piano. I am in seventh heaven! (And so is Sharon, haha) When I left home, I missed my piano sooooo much. Over time the...
Today I laughed more than I have in ages. I was on leave from work, so I met up with a friend -- a senior from college who had been in our college's Christian Fellowship group together with me --...
Recently, Charis, one of my readers, asked why I don't want to emigrate and won't consider emigrating, even for lurve. "People think I'm crazy when I tell them I'm thinking of coming back. Reminds me of when I was in...
I fully understand now why BPbites described drafting a post in Malay as "painful". "It's like I'd done a body roll across a bed of red-hot nails, and this is just after a three-line paragraph," he said. I echo his...