It is well

I have booked my flight home.

one.way.ticket.

29 September, the end of September.

I'm feeling emotional. Sad to leave, slightly tired of the thought of re-starting everything, but excited nonetheless about GREAT THINGS - I don't know what they are yet.

SIGH. Would like some soothing music please....

my brain's spouting poetry at me!!

I seem to fancy boys from another country
Maybe it's my way of escape from reality

I used to flurry about in a hurry
But now I take a chill pill and say "don't worry"

Life's too short to fret and whine
Just get over yourself and it'll all be fine

Smile when you're down
Cry when no one's around
Laugh when you don't feel like it
Burp when you've had too much to eat

Written in a moment of senseless amusement...*giggle giggle chuckle hee*

I can't remember who (or what) I was thinking about when I wrote this

We live in parallel worlds
Pushing forwards in the same direction
But never making that connection
Where dreams and chance become one
And a greater river we become.

Crashing churning swirling gurgling
Over rocks and sand and seas we dance.
On this path called "life"
Floating on hope
That someday the magic will sweep us away.

Circa 2007. From a page in a notebook of random stuff.
Found whilst I was doing a big cleanup.

when i was a little girl..

I hated wearing dresses and loved climbing trees and wearing tattered trousers.
Now I climb trees in dresses.

I never wanted to marry because the thought of men and babies were disgusting.
I've changed my mind about the babies.

I've always dreamed of going to crazy far off places to save lives.
I still do.

I'm going back to Malaysia at the end September! Time to get stuck into Malaysian medicine and do crazy stuff. What fun!

Chinese restaurant

Gail walks into a Chinese buffet restaurant.

Chinese manager walks up to her.

"Where are you from?"

"Malaysia"

"Oh Malaysia! He's from Malaysia too" (gestures at another waiter looking awkward in the corner.. as they do)

"So what are you doing here?"

"I was studying at the uni, but working now"

"Oh good good.. where do you work?"

"I'm a doctor" (smiles sheepishly)

"WAH.. gom lek!"

Before you can say "salmon", all the staff knew that the girl on that table was "lek lui cho yee san!"

I love old chinese aunties.

And they cried...

Date: Sunday, 3 January 2010
Place: Hillsongs London/Dominion Theatre, Tottenham Court Road
Time: 345 pm approximately, at the end of the 2nd happy clappy jumpy uppy song.

Me(praying): Dear Holy Spirit....

I started crying before I could even complete my sentence.

Looked at S. S crying too.

S: Why are we crying?

Me: I don't know. I guess because God is here.

P.S. I know it must've been the Holy Spirit

Hello 2010!

This must've been one of the Best New Beginnings ever.

(Last new year's eve was pretty fun and special too with the sisters - I miss them :P - as detailed here http://babeloveslola.blogspot.com.

When 2009 began, I was shell-shocked from a recent breakup, and there was that (irrational) catastrophic fear that I would fail my finals and get kicked out of medical school and get thrown into jail by JPA, disgraced forever. And I carried this baggage with me for most of the first part of 2009.

If not for the goodness of God, and the love of family, and the support of friends, I think I may have sunk low low low and possibly be like my patients in Psychiatry.

But hey, look where I am now!

:D

All I can say is Thank you Jesus (yeah!) for amazing family, friends, comfort, peace, joy, graduating, colleagues, adventures (Egypt, Turkey, St Lucia.. oh man!!), provision, favour, healing, housemates...

He is the rock on which I am standing. It's such an awesome year already and as Babe says "I can't imagine how God's gonna top himself this year. But oh He is gonna!"