Happy new year everyone!!!! this is the first post of the yaer 2006, and i couldn't be more excited. it's time to take stock of what has happenend in 2005, and look forward to more challenging and exciting times ahead in the months to come....
first, i want to give a very very long overdue shout-out to my beloved NYchoir!!!!! great job peeps, in the KL competition. we have grown so much closer together, and become one big family. i believe that this spirit will be carried on to following years of singers. keep singing people!!! and always remember to laugh and cry together....
next, i wanna briefly tell you guys about my own holiday in malaysia. i don't know why i went back again after i just came back from KL, but i can tell you now that i'm glad i did. highly recommend driving up through malaysia with road maps. it's great fun, and great time for bonding with family and/or friends. we got lost in Ipoh, and kept wishing that it would stop raining... which it eventually did after 3 days. i really really missed the sun, and i welcomed it with open arms and shouts of joy when it finally returned. never miss out genting highlands when you go to malaysia. i tell you, the feeling of mist enveloping and surrounding you is so surreal; you feel as though you can just reach out and touch heaven. it adds that little element of mystery, and the wind blows so strongly, that you feel as though you are in the middle of a horror/mystery/adventure movie. this is one of the places when you can truly understand the meaning of 'looming in the mist'. up there, surrounded by mist and cold air and trees, is where one can also feel truly alone.
my biggest shoutout goes to my Lord, who has been with me each step of the way through 2005. He carried me when i was down, He rejoiced with me when i was happy, and He never forsook me during the difficult times. He will never leave me, and there goes no day when i am not thankful that i know Him. I am overjoyed that i am given the chance to prove myself as worship leader in the childrens' ministry in church, and i just want to do my best to give glory and praise to His name. i thank the Lord for directing me to this most wonderful church, where i've made so many friends and truly bonded with them in such a short period of time; i thank Him for bringing me through my A Levels. i thank the Lord that i've made so many wonderful friendships in school and in my class; i thank Him for allowing me to realise that my relationship with terry ran deeper than it actually did before. i thank Him for such an amazing family, and i love them all dearly.
now, let's look forward to the year 2006. nobody knows what the future can hold, nobody knows how the road will turn. i may take the road less travelled, but how it turns out is up to me eventually in the end. i am my own person. i may be afraid of the big wide world out there, and i may not know exactly which way to turn, but i trust that the Lord will guide me through safely. i am the master of my fate. i am the captain of my soul. no one can take this away from me. no matter what comes, i know that i will handle it to the best of my ability. that said, MOVE FORWARD!!!!!!