~light of the world~

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Today is an extremely special day.

Today, my first ever nephew was born to my sister and brother-in-law in New Zealand.

I've been waiting for this day for the past eight months or so, and I prayed every night that my sister and her baby would be safe, because this is a precious miracle baby.

And God has taken care of them all and produced my nephew, Caleb Matthew Chang Yi Jie.

The first time I saw a birth, I nearly teared at the sight of new life entering the world, even though I didn't even know the person. But this birth today is of course much more special.

My status has been upgraded to that of AUNT! Praise God!

Labels: family

xuan blogged at 9:37 PM

May your light shine...
in the darkness...

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

I've recently got back from the FOCUS church camp, but I haven't gotten down to writing an account yet - I'll do it some other time.

So this afternoon I met up with Shernise to have lunch in the city of Sydney.

I actually woke up pretty late this morning, and I kind of freaked out when my watch said it was already 10am, but then when I was replying her sms I noticed my phone saying it was 9 plus, and then I realised it was because I forgot to set my watch back one hour for daylight savings!

Anyway, we'd previously meant to meet at Circular Quay, but then it was raining and not conducive for the amount of walking we'd planned, so she suggested the Queen Victoria Building.

So at breakfast (where I was the only one!) I was thinking about how to get there, after having consulted the Sydney travel website. Thankfully a senior came and sat at the same table, so I could ask him which bus to take. Apparently there's a big statue of the Queen in front of that building - so it's pretty hard to miss!

I met Kailun at the bus stop, and he was going on the same bus too, but not that he knew exactly which bus stop for me to get off at either, so we were both kind of trying to figure it out. Thankfully the bus stop was really near the building!

Also, the interesting thing is that because it was a cross junction, and I was diagonally opposite the building, I would have had to cross two roads to get there. But then suddenly all the traffic stopped and people could not only cross the road normally in two perpendicular directions, but also cut across the empty square of road in between diagonally! This doesn't happen in Singapore!

So I met with her and we ate rice and stuff at this food court place, which was pretty good. I miss Chinese food. It was great talking to her after so long, and it's pretty cool how we've both come to Sydney after being friends for so long!

Labels: friends, sydney

xuan blogged at 9:36 PM

May your light shine...
in the darkness...