What A Busy March Hols!

Sunday 11 March

10 - 2 pm Church

2 - 4 pm Lunch & wait for hubby as he plays soccer

4 - 7 pm IT Fair [urghhh....bad squeeze, never again, at least not for a pregnant lady]

7 - 9 pm Dinner at Millenia walk

Monday 12 March
Spent the whole day doing sorting out of file and bills from 2004. Cleared the shelf area for baby corner

Tuesday 13 March

9:30 - 11:30 Breakfast at Crystal Jade with Gong Gong

11:30 - 12:30 Went back to FTPSS to settle some stuff

12:30 - 2:00 Hubby g-masked his new phone. I did banking at Bishan

2:00 - 4: 00 First Recee to Kidzloft to see what stuff to buy for the baby corner

9:30 - 10:30 Dinner at Beach Road and send David and CC off.

Wednesday 14 March
9:00 - 1 pm Arrival of metal cabinets and clean up of our very cluttered balcony [by Super Hubby]

12:30 - 8 pm Lunch and furniture buying at IKEA
8:00 - 10 pm Dinner with Boys Bible Study Group at AMK

10:00 - 12 am More Set up of furniture [by Super Hubby]

Thursday 15 March

11 - 12:30pm 50% Shopping Spree at Kidzloft

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 - 4 pm Aircon Man arrives at house and Roller Blinds Man

7 - 9:30 pm Young Ladies Bible Study

10 - 11:30 pm Supper

Friday 16 March

9 - 3:00 pm Cleaning Lady comes while I mark the scripts
3 - 5:00 pm Visit to the Gynae

5 - 7:00 pm Rest and relax at home

8 - 12:00am Celebratory Dinner at Mortons

The waiter assigned to our table. He had to rattle his script and introduce everything before giving us our menu. Interesting fellow.

Cause of celebration: Melvin & Jonathan passed their exams.

Saturday 17 March

10:30 - 11:30am Ikea Delivery and fixing of more book shelves

12:00 - 2 pm Yong Ren's 1st Birthday Celebration at Safra Mount Faber. Hubby rushes off for talk by about Cancer

Check out the mountain load of presents for our birthday boy.
5:00 - 8 pm Rest and Sleep

8:00 - 9 pm Ramen Dinner at Marina Square

10 - 11:30pm Reading and rest at Kent Ridge Park

Iron Man comes to Town!

As Pastor Neville Tan walked into FTPSS, whispers of 'Iron Man' could be heard, especially from the lower secondary pupils. He was like a mini celebrity that day. After a week long of showing 'True Courage' to the pupils, many were anticipating his coming or rather, they couldn't wait to see Singapore's 10 most wanted. Even as I was setting up the booth for the sale of his books, one rather 'influential' upper Secondary school boy came up and was the first to thrust $10 to my face. I was pleasantly surprised. In a polite tone, he said, "Lao Shi, Wo Yao Mai". As he walked away with his autographed book in hand, followed by his entourage, I pray that the book would impact him and lead him to a real change just as Pastor Neville did.

As I entered the office to welcome him, what struck me about Pastor Neville was the humility and propriety with which he carried himself. To date, Neville Tan is 67 years old and he has had a heart attack recently and 3 bypasses. I am glad he could make it to our school that day. The students were quiet and attentive. Speaking to Neville Tan later, we could only attribute this attentiveness to the power of prayer, among the Christian teachers in FTPSS as well as Neville Tan's church members.

It was a really significant day for me - to realize that the role of an educator in outreaching to the lost in a public school is not limited...sometimes we are just to busy to notice and realize the many opportunities out there. There are many hungry hearts and they all need the Lord. As students came to visit the booth, some just wanted to shake Iron Man's hand, while others stood and loitered. Some were contemplating whether it was worth it to part with their money for a copy of the life of an ex convict. As for the many books that went out, let us pray in confidence that the word of God through a changed life would bring many to the saving knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.