Plonk.
To my dear readers and friends,
I'm back. I'm almost tempted to begin my inaugural entry on blogspot with a lofty, Paul-like flourish 'Greetings to those in Singapore, whose inheritance is firmly established in Christ'; but false humility alongside cheesy humour rears its ugly head with a whip and collar, so I shall restrain my impulses :P
Speaking of Paul, my parents just returned from Turkey. Among the ancient ruins they've managed to visit (lucky them!), they walked the trail Paul did when he addressed the Ephesians* at Ephesus. Listening to them recall their holiday was quite interesting, to say the least.
"And then we walked around the Effefesus place where that Polly guy walked... was it Polly?" said my dad with a pleased look on his face.
Go dad. I know you're not Christian, but thanks for making an effort to follow mom (who's Christian) on this journey.
But I digress.
So why blog? Why resurrect an old habit of writing, when there are old discarded blogs on Xanga (my first) and Diaryland? My last entry on Diaryland was dated in May 2007 - more than a year has passed, and I thought I'd never pull a Lazarus for blogging again.
Much as I enjoyed writing back then, it didn't help that negative thoughts dominated many of my entries, especially during the time when I was struggling with clinical depression.
But now, life has changed. God has changed my life a lot over the past years. Even more so in the recent past year, having been challenged by Him to start serving in church, and in BASIC (youth ministry) too. For one who stubbornly chose to eschew the 'happy Christian youth group thing' throughout her teens, God has an ironic sense of humour (and purpose!) by bringing me back to a youth ministry in church.
So I wish to write once more. No longer abusing this privilege of being able to write, by cloaking emo-depressive ranting with the more palatable notion of 'introspection'; nor hiding behind a shroud of secrecy for fear of being judged.
Just writing. Plain and simple sans the pretension.
Like no-frills NTUC bargain buys :)
*Note: Ephesians is a book in the bible. Paul, an apostle for Jesus, wrote the book to the church in Ephesus.
6 rice confetti:
RESURRECTION!! wow!
and will our japan pics ever grace ur blog? hahaz
... Wow, can't tell if ur being sarcastic or not.. makes me feel like i've performed a miracle :P I think Japan pics etc will go on facebook lah. Too many to put here heh.
the "choose to eschew the happy youth group" part is pretty funny:) c ya ard!
hellow jingming here :D
eh you write until quite cheem one ah.
haha. >.>
eh thats it.
tell me when you FINALLY update.
i visit here too frequently LOL.
Wow, this blog lasted all of 2 MONTHS! w00t!
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