Eyes wide open

So I have decided, in view of my epically transforming journey in Methodist College (July 2015-December 2016), to document some of the amazing experiences and opportunities I've gained during my 1.5 years there. I hope you enjoy these little recollections, as I recount and share the little and big things that have established for MCKL a dear place in my heart. Wew, thank God for giving me this wonderful experience.  ♥ Okay let's start with some very dear friends of mine - for it is the brothers & sisters that make a place a second home, right?  Nobody's Birthday [Est. January 2016] Our friendship/sisterhood definitely goes back to 2015, but 'formally' as 'Nobody's Birthday' we were established in January... following a plan to surprise Shin Li (one of us) for her birthday! And to avoid blowing the surprise, we named the planning WhatsApp group 'Nobody's Birthday'. Occupationally, our little team exists to surprise each oth...

I'm done with college and I am at home resting for 9 months from the past 11 years or so of studying! Yes. What a relief. I thank God for how faithful He has been in the past years, walking by me and leading me on in a journey that has me looking back in awe and wonder. I've grown like never before; I am nearer to what is called 'womanhood' - still a very distant future in my view. I have left things behind which are not of worth in my journey with Christ - old mindsets of the world, goals which do not seek to honour God, plans which crowd God out of the picture. I don't even want to look back at those things in the rearview mirror, because where I find myself now commands no backward-looking nostalgia.   (view of Ipoh from Kledang Hill, Menglembu) As with most people when they talk about the close of a long chapter in their lives and wait for the start of a new one, I have pondered on God's faithfulness that knows no end. We can never praise God e...