Easter 2017

One of the things in my mental Easter to-do list is to make a blog update but I feel like this is gonna be a quick one! I'm just trying to dump some of the highlights of the term (realised that the last post was on 3rd Year Sem 1).

And every blog post of mine seem to say: TIME FLIES! I can't believe the 2nd semester (and final semester at university of my life) is almost over! I'm currently on my 3-week Easter break, then we have 2 weeks of lectures, then practical exams, 3 papers, and I'm officially done with uni. It feels surreal because I remember thinking as a kid: "I'm not prepared for uni, it's for grown ups, how am I gonna survive" and now it's almost coming to an end. 

Jan: This was after one of the papers in Jan, featuring the mirror in the toilet of Sackville St Building

Jan: Students Bible Student Weekend Away at Quinta Hall (as usual) in Shropshire! This marked my last weekend away with Platt. 

Feb: EyeBall 2017, went for the sake of going because it's my last one, yeah was alright!
Pictures pictures pictures

Feb: It was CONVINCED 2017!! 

Donald Ye Ye, still so involved in student gospel work especially in prayer after decades because he himself came to know Jesus through the Christian Union at university!

CONVINCED has got to be one of the major highlights of my university life here, because you get lots of Christian students from 4 different universities and different church backgrounds, uniting in the same desire to give our friends on campus the opportunity to hear and respond to what Jesus said/did. And a week that is powered by prayer every early morning. Then you see strangers off the streets, friends of Christians coming along to events where the good news of Jesus is proclaimed! What better thing than to introduce our friends to the only Person who changes our whole lives for eternity!?

Feb CNY: Aunty Ruth (hospitable as always) opened up her house for us to invite our friends for a CNY Hotpot, where Amber also shared her story of how she became a Christian. FOOD FOOD FOOD!!

March: Went to the Cat Cafe with Lucy my cat friend

March: Cat Bakewell came to visit, and we caught up after 2.5 years of not seeing each other ever since the MCKL days! It was awesome to encourage each other in Christ

SBS Group 10!

Optom Group 8: Aidan, Mark, Shin Yi, Penny, Maria, Fahim, Me, Jit Ming, Maheen, Pui Yee, Lawrence, Qayyum. This was during our last ever clinic- FIT!

March: Right at the beginning of Easter break, I went to visit Charis in Dundee! It was spontaneously planned, and was great, could catch up with her, know her Dentistry gang, see Dundee and know that my teeth is a Class 2 Division !

After that, I was just studying + chilling in Manchester. Am 'pacing myself well' this Easter as I'm treasuring my last moments in Manchester as a student. 

Ruth Givan drove Tricia and I to Quarry Bank Mill!

Platt Fields, photo credit to Ally

Platt Fields, photo credit to Ally

Angeline and Ally being funny. LOVE SPRING

14 April: I decided to go for a dinner event in London with the newly elected Sarawak CM Abang Jo. Before the event, I walked from Euston station to Little Venice, then to the venue. (2 hours total! So say hi to sore legs now.) 

Little Venice-ish area

April: Lan Berambeh with Abang Jo and a room FULL of Sarawakians

The event was interesting, I had no regrets deciding to go for it (which also included an adventure of running home after arriving at Manchester Piccadilly station early and realising I brought the wrong railcard, then after going back to the station, explained to the staff and she let me on the next train which I wasn't meant to be on. Thank God. It was a day of experiencing mercy. Plus it was Good Friday).

Abang Jo talked about his plans for developing Sarawak and they all sound good, so my prayer is that God will bless his plans and his leadership over Sarawak. The event in general also made me love Sarawak a lot more and does put the desire in me to serve in Sarawak in the future. But God, lead me where you want me to be, and let me have Your desire.

The trip also brought along a rare opportunity to catch up with Alicia my Arang senior! To our knowledge, we're the only ones from Arang who are in the UK so it was indeed a rare chance to be able to talk to someone about Arang-related things. And both of us were pointing out the fact that we're so grateful to be given the opportunity to study in the UK!

I'm also thankful that God slowly changes my priorities and mindsets--my heart. This year I find myself less stressed about work and more His-Kingdom-conscious. Have to keep reminding myself of what matters most in the end and whether my decisions are made in the light of eternity. 

Jesus, this Easter Saturday, I remind myself again of how You've poured out yourself for us wretches who do not deserve anything from you. We deserve God's wrath and yet you took all the world's wrongs on yourself on that Good Friday- you call it good because it was victory on the cross. Thank you that you paid the price I can't ever pay. Thank you that your coming back to life from the dead means we have a hope that is unfading and lasts forever. See you face-to-face next time. :)

"Though you have not seen him you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls." 1 Peter 1:9

I'm going home in 2 months, by then it would have been 1.5 years that I haven't been home! Kuching!!!