2024 is flying pass at rocket speed and it is already March. Turning another year older makes me feel old.. can’t believe I am inching to mid 30s next year! But that really is adulting and am counting our blessings one by one and savouring every little corner of our latest project – 1582 aka home.
Penning down one of the darkest days of the last 5 years. Bye August. September please be kind.
We pray for blessings
We pray for peace
Comfort for family, protection while we sleep
We pray for healing, for prosperity
We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering
And all the while, You hear each spoken need
Yet love is way too much to give us lesser things
‘Cause what if your blessings come through raindrops?
What if Your healing comes through tears?
What if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near?
And what if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise?
We pray for wisdom
Your voice to hear
And we cry in anger when we cannot feel You near
We doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love
As if every promise from Your Word is not enough
And all the while, You hear each desperate plea
And long that we’d have faith to believe
‘Cause what if your blessings come through raindrops?
What if Your healing comes through tears?
And what if the thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near?
And what if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise?
When friends betray us
And when darkness seems to win
We know that pain reminds this heart
That this is not, this is not our home
It’s not our home
‘Cause what if your blessings come through raindrops?
What if Your healing comes through tears?
And what if the thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near?
What if my greatest disappointments
Or the aching of this life
Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can’t satisfy
And what if trials of this life
The rain, the storms, the hardest nights
Are Your mercies in disguise?
We are finally homeowners 🔑
Can’t believe a quarter has passed and I am now a HR relationship manager! New role has been fun and so amazed at how my career journey has pivoted to this current domain ☺️ Apart from work, life has been full of busy tasks from making lots of fun decisions on Wedding vendors, outfits, themes, program, as well as 9182738273 tasks relating to Home ID planning. The adrenaline is real and sometimes it is difficult to remind ourselves to “enjoy the process”. Looking forward to the end of the year already where we would have been settled down (alas) into the new place as a newly married couple 🥰
May God continue to bless us as we trust in Him to guide and provide ♥️
Time flies! It has been 1 year since we completed our marriage preparation course 🙂 Living together for more than a year now and soon we will be wedded for life faster than we know.. The past 3 weeks has been extremely stressful as we see our bank accounts getting wiped out for banquet, wedding things and our very first home. Another season of trusting in God that He will provide.
The first of us 🙂
It was Tuesday 4 Jan, and a horribly long day back in CBP after a year of travelling hiatus working from home.. I couldn’t end work on time so I thought, let’s catch the Toa Payoh shuttle bus back to Cardiff. Slammed my laptop at 6:27pm and scurried down to the lobby and ran up the bus, phew i did it!! Otherwise I would have to slowly catch the train which will take me another 50mins. I was the last one that boarded and plonked into my seat, tired but happy to finally be able to catch up on the never ending WhatsApp messages that has piled up since noon.
Naomi shared that she got her 3Gen home through SBF, and we were all so thoroughly thrilled for her to finally own a place. I was sooo happy for her because I know how much we all long to call a place “our home”. We were exclaiming virtually and then I thought to myself, if the SBF results are out, this means our application results were also out. And I had no excitement because I vividly recall D and I opening the previous BTO application back in Aug 2021 only to see a number falling out of the available units of the estate we tried for.. so while I peeked into my gmail and spotted 1 unread email from HDB_Sales, I hesitated for a bit. Should I just open right now since the results would be negative? Should I wait to get back and open it together with D? Should I just read it myself and inform D when I get back? Anyhows not expecting too much I did it and to my disbelief WE GOT IT!!!!!!! I teared on the bus reading the email, showed D and Naomi, Rachel and Arvin and confirmed it to make sure I was not dreaming. It was crazy. The lady by my side must have thought I was not socially normal.
It wasn’t. It was like an immense peace fall upon my whole soul and there I knew God was revealing His greater plan for us. Nobody knew how much tears, sadness, anxiety, hope and prayers existed the last quarter in Cardiff. We had extreme fun but also a trying period, friendships (and our feelings) were hurt through finding a proper home. It then became clear why all the rejections earlier happened for a bigger plan. It was God making himself known time and time again.
Running home to D was extremely loving that evening. The hug i recieved at the bus stop was a huge teddy bear worth. We were so so happy we just kept reading the email over and over again. Our nightly grace before dinner was a little longer than usual but also because God truly deserve all the glory and thanksgiving. Nothing would have been possible if not for Him. We are truly excited for what is to come, indeed God listens to prayers and answers us when we seek him first 🤍🤍
2022 has only just begun. Praise be to Him all blessings flow. Capturing this moment for our keepsake. A huge turning point that night indeed.
I will always keep what happened today close to heart. It helped me realise how much I actually value sisterhood. Sometimes I just wish we needn’t have to grow up and go back to times when we had no worries.. like times in 3E5.
Enjoyed myself thoroughly this weekend 🥰 Singapore is actually a lovely place to live in so I am counting my blessings xx
Flowers do win my heart ❤️ Thank you bb!
Inspired to make a simple makeover because why not?
What a journey it has been! 2 months of going into TAG, meeting new colleagues, learning everything from zero and juggling circuit breaker moments all at home. Thankful for God’s sustenance, providence and all who have been watching out for me 🙂 fav moments of lying in bed and waking up only to walk 15 steps to laptop and begin working, shiok!
When love is real, it’ll find a way
Jan has been really rough and I pray God continues to watch over our coming and going like he has been all along
Xx
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