Hello, and welcome to my humble blog!
Background
This blog was started back in April 2006, at Tokyo Narita Airport, when I was en-route to the USA, which is the furthest I have ever travelled away from home. Over the years, it has served as a record of some of the many travels I have been privileged to go on and to allow my family and friends back home to keep in touch with my well-being; I abandon it every time I am back home in Singapore.
I am a simple girl in my twenties living a life even beyond my wildest childish imagination. Having grown up in the heartlands of Singapore and being fully educated locally (BBPS, RGS, RJC and SMU), I can say that I'm a true-bue Singaporean at heart. Everyone, including myself, thought that was where I would naturally settle down. However, by the divine providence of an omniscient God, I had a couple of short stints in the outre-mer during university and moved to London after graduating with not-so-well-deserved degrees in Accountancy and Business Management conferred only by the grace of God. I now work in a British Investment Bank as an unglamorous Credit Officer, contrary to popular belief.
As much as I'm a self-confessed travel-addict, I try my best to live life with the notion that "this world is not my home, I'm just a-passing through... my treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue..." Sometimes I don't know where I'm going as far as this life is concerned, but I trust Him who holds all my tomorrows in the palm of His hand.
For more about me, read my blog lah.
Objectives
As I journey through life and its different phases, normal everyday occurrences cease to become normal routine very quickly. With the knowledge that everything in this life is transient, this is an attempt to keep an account of my life. The first 2 decades have already been relegated to the recesses of my mind and my parents'.
I have never been one to keep a diary, and the mind is not the most reliable when it comes to the details of life's happenings, especially mine. Scenes quickly fade despite how terribly hard I try to preserve them as mental images. The words penned help jolt the dusty memory bank, whether it be a comical moment (I know I have a peculiar sense of humour) or object lessons which I love picking up along the way. I enjoy writing, and I enjoy writing in detail, precisely because I figured that in future I'd need all the help I can get trying to recall these moments.
Being a Bible-believing Christian, a large majority of views expressed here stem from my faith. This is also a great avenue for me to share items of thanksgiving and attribute praise to the Almighty God who does all things well. It is my prayer and desire that each reader will come to a personal knowledge of the Saviour through the sharing of my own encounters with Him. May none ever be stumbled by any of the contents herein.
Of course, living far away from home, this blog also serves as a means to keep interested parties abreast of my latest development- feelings, thoughts, blessings, struggles et al. It is by no means an effort to show off. I merely strive to offer a glimpse into my imperfect, life-long quest to live out the Gospel.
One day, when I look back on these memories, I hope to be able to testify to myself, and to those who look upon my life, about how good God has been to me, and how He has brought me through all circumstances, as promised in His everlasting Word:
"When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee."
Isaiah 43 : 2
Co-Writer
From time to time, I enlist the help of my fiance - who was previously my boyfriend of 8 years. We have almost grown up together; he has shared much with me over the years, thereby standing him in good stead to offer a fresh writing style to this blog. I am indeed ever thankful that he has stuck by me throughout many years of being physically apart, despite finding out ages ago that I am a lot more complicated, retarded and insane than what he signed up for...
Welcome, and Enjoy!
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