안녕하세요저는숙령입니다

Day 5

What I had today was only 한국어 lesson. 한국어를아주어렵습니다(It was very difficult!)!! But I enjoyed it very much. At least I could see some progress. Now, I can read, write and understand more words than before. However, do not expect me to form perfect sentences now. I only form basic sentences like '안녕하세요,제는숙렁입니디' (Hello, my name is Sherlyn.) and '반깁습니다' (nice to meet you.).

As you can see, I have found a new 'toy' for me to play! I now know how to write in 한국어(Korean) and 영어(English) at the same time so it's really cool. I'm currently getting use to typing in as the figuring are totally different. So if any one suddenly talk to me in Korean online, do not expect a fast reply. I'm still experimenting.

As for my IT project. I'm almost finish. I'm left with the graphs and I'm done. WHOOOO HOOOOO. IT is just such a drag! This is why I am and will always be an IT amateur.

Talking about work! I'm way behind for Karuna's notes and assignment! And I've got a test on Monday! Oh that's it! I'm definitely done for! No more television for me!

Love <3

Day 4

Today, I officially started doing my 1st IT project with Xin Yi and attempt on typing my notes out while waiting for Rach to reach before catching a show even though I told myself that I'm not suppose to watch. It's just too tempting further more the show was...good I must say but definitely not for the young.

The day was boring until I met Rach for the show. Glad to meet her as she did a great favour although I can bet she don't even know what favour she did for me. She pulled me out from all things regarding school to have a fun time watching movie and crapping with each other like we always do and I'm thankful for that. I'm really gonna miss her lots when she leaves! The thought of not talking to her ever crossed my mind so that when she acutally leaves, I will be used to it. But there are two sides to a coin! I can't just stop now! I just can't.

A sms came in not long ago which made me happier. And the sms goes something like this 'Hey guys! Field pract tutorial has been cancalled for tomorrow as belinda's having a very bad sore throat. Yup' WHOOOOOHOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! No school tomorrow!!!!!

Love <3

Day 3

I was early for school again! I was never early when my family was around in Singapore! I was always on the dot. Hmm, maybe they should go overseas without me more often. NOT!!!

Any way, today I received a big shocker again! My Play module teacher told me that I'm chosen from my class to attend this writing workshop on the 3rd of June! I asked her why I was chosen out of other good writers in class like Liyana who is the young writer for the Malay papers. My teacher said that she judged by the way I spook and participated in class and thought that I have the potential to write children's book and to win the competition which I have to go for after the workshop. Feeling very honoured now! Though I'm not the writer kind of person, but I want to be. So I'm going to take this opportunity to learn how to write. It may be for writing children's book, but it's still writing! Who knows, may be one day when you want to select a book for your child or cousin, etc, you get to see my name written on the cover page. 'Written by : Sherlyn Ho' How cool is that!

As of now, every thing is going well even though my family is not around me. And I thank God for that!

So, writing workshop here I come!

Love <3

Day 2

Attachment day today! And surprisingly I was early for attachment! Since I reached the centre half an hour early, I gotten the chance to sit in or rather stand in during their so-called morning assembly. All the kids from playgroup to kindergarten 2 and the teachers squeezed into a very small air-conditioned room to sing the National anthem and say the pledge. What shocked me the most today was that the children are expected to know our pledge both in English and in Chinese and recite it at every morning assembly. I don't even know the Chinese version of it after living on this earth for the past 18 years as I wasn't told to recite it even though I came from a Chinese school the past 5 years! So for the benefit of those who don't even know that our pledge is translated into Chinese, here is our pledge:

我们是新加坡公民，
誓愿不分种族、言语、宗教，
团结一致，
建设公正平等
的民主社会，
并为实现国家之幸福、繁荣与进步，
共同努力。

(At least I know the 1st line!)

After the attachment, Xin Yi and I decided to collect our Graduation Certificate. Apparently they changed the whole Certificate system. Instead of just presenting us with 2 pieces of paper - our results cert and testimony, the MOE gave us a whole file! In the there was the usual results cert, the School Graduation Cert, the whole list of Co-curriculum stuff I did during my Secondary School life and last but not least my testimony(which I love the most because it's super well writen! Thanks Ms Kuck). Everything looks grand and very professional on the outside and in the inside! I was told there are some changes but I didn't know it would be a drastic change! I feel like I've already graduated from University holding on to the file. I think it is better this way because it will be easier to dig out whenever I need it. Shall take a picture of it the moment I lay my hands on a camera.

Any way, I told my maid not to cook today as I've decided to packet food home in order to save time rather than cooking and washing up since there is only the 2 of us. But! (Why must there always be a 'but') After collecting the Certificate, I realised that I left my water bottle at the Centre! So I had to walk all the way back to retrieve it before buying lunch. I was super hungry at that point of time. Imagine my poor maid at home, waiting for me to get home! I think I starved her to 'death'! So sorry auntie!

Conclusion for the day

Every thing was OK I guess, only thing was that I wasted my whole time snoozing off this cool afternoon! Which is not good because I got to get started in preparing my notes again for the exams which is going to start or have already started for some modules!

Love <3

Day 1

Sent my family off this morning and every thing was going fine until they stepped into the taxi to make their way to the airport to catch the plain. I couldn't control myself, but there is nothing that I can do to stop them from going.

So I went back to the house to get myself ready for school. Tired as usual but this time, there were more things occupying my brain's capacity. Glad that every thing in school went well. I actually had a fun time in school with my course mates, taking pictures and singing and telling jokes and all sorts of nonsense. This is why I really thank God for the friends He had provided me with.

But the challenge for today wasn't about me trying to cope with normal daily life while being so preoccupied with something else. There wasn't much food left at home, so the challenge was for me to somehow find my way to a NTUC to get some groceries. I didn't what was cheap and what wasn't, or how to pick the right vegetables, or whether it is a need or a want, etc. BUT I've got to say that shopping for groceries is actually quite fun when my mom is not here with me because I get to choose what I want to eat. But the ultimate challenge I've got to say is actually going home from NTUC. I have to balance my notebook, Korean textbook and 4 plastic bags while depositing a cheque and taking a cab home. I thought of just taking a bus home in order to save some money but it is impossible! Being the ever so clumsy me, the eggs that I bought will sure to break, so I had no choice.

Now that I'm home and have taken my lunch and all, I feel that there is a large amount of burden being taken away from my shoulder. I can finally relax for a while before making my way back to school for Korean class.

I kind of figured out that I wouldn't have a life this 3 weeks because I'm expected to be home everyday straight at school. As I want to practise the lesson on being a good conduct, I plan to listen to my parents and come home straight away after school. So do not ask me to go out! I've got a 3 storey house to look after.

'Thank you God for your guidance for the day.'

Love <3

"No matter how strong I may force myself to look on the outside, I'm still very weak on the inside"

Well, the whole family will be leaving me for UK in about another 7 hours time. This would be the first time my parents will be leaving me alone in Singapore for 3 whole weeks. No matter how much I tried to tell myself that I will be OK and every thing is going to be fine and fun, I just can't seem to off my tap if you know what I mean. I feel like I'm already missing them especially my dad even though they are still under the same roof as them. My mom sure thinks I can handle a lot of responsibility but in actual fact I'm not sure whether I can handle the entire household by myself, I'm really worried and scared for myself.

So much for wanting to study overseas and living all by myself! I'm already filling very burdened my all the things which I'm suppose to do in Singapore, more so overseas. I'm really thankful that my maid is not going to abandon me for something else, at least I hope so, or else I will be so dead! I bet my parents won't even be able to recognise the house when they come back from the trip if they were to entrust the whole house to me without any maid. I think this is when my faith in the Lord really steps in. This will be the time the Lord can seriously test me on whether I will still go back to Him when I'm in need. I will definitely say that I can't handle things by myself, so I'm going to pray everyday for strength and courage to go each day without much fear.

"Fear not for I am with you,

Be not dismay, for I am your god,

I will strengthen you,

Yes, I will help you,

I will uphold you with My righteous right hand."

[Isaiah 41:10]

Whoever is reading this entry, please pray for me, at least for this three weeks. I think I really need a lot of prayer support.

I'll try to write an entry each day to keep track of how I'm coping with stuff at home, in school and at church all at the same time while attempting to continuing my non-negotiable.

Love <3

5th Nov 2008

8.00pm

Esplanade

Yu Wen

Love <3

'Hi, on behalf of NP Ambassador, we would like to congragulate on getting the third interview!'

YUP!! I got through the third interview! Although the person on the phone didn't exactly say that, but it has the same idea. Well, it's only by God's grace that I'm able to get through this interview because this Ambassador thing is actually really tough to get through. Only 50 people were chosen out of the 500 hopefuls who signed up and I'm one of the 50! It really feels very honoured to be selected out of so many people who might be better than me!

I'm quite sad that Sabrina and Jeremy didn't get through the last interview, but at least there is still Dian and Sarah to accompany me. So I'm really excited for the the camps coming up!!!

WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO

Love <3

Review of volleyball training

1) My first thought about the team and training is hostile! People just don't look friendly even the coach!

2) I've not train for a really long time so my whole body is 'rusty'. Now, my whole body is aching!!

3) Landed wrongly after spiking, caused my left knee to be injured. If you see a limping girl, most probably it's me.

4) Didn't get chosen for polite competition, but I don't really care, because I know I will not like playing with them, so I intend to play for the recreational team until I find an external team to play for.

Love <3

Siti tagged me so here goes the 20 questions. (:

Questions:

1. What disappoints you the most? - Not doing as good as I know I could have done.

2. Where will you go if someone sponsors you a tour ticket? -KOREA!!!(everyone around me should know that)

3. What's your favorite(s) thing to do? -SINGING!! and people watching(:

4. Do you think money can buy happiness? - NEVER!!! actually I think money is the root to all evil!! everyone on this world should just be kind and have every thing for free. Wouldn't this make the world a happier place to live in?

5. If you can have one dream to come true, what would it be? - That everything wouldn't be so expensive!!

6. Do you believe you can survive without money? -In this world now? Definitely a NO!

7. What is the two sweetest thing anyone has ever done for you? -Having the whole class to surprise me with a birthday song on the day of my birthday last year in the mids of all the stressful studying!! (burst out crying!!)

-as you can see that is only one sweetest thing anyone has ever done for me(that I can think of) so keep it coming :)

8. If you win $1 million, what would you do? - that's it....SHOPPING SPREE BABY! And also give part of it to Bethany. Suppose to give part of my 1st salary to church but have not done so. haha

9. What is the most embarrassing thing that happened to you recently? - I don't know! I'm always embarrassing myself!!! Which is not good! But I can tell you one of the many. I pulled away a complete stranger's girlfriend when I thought it was my friend Edna at the Movies. CAN DIE I TELL YOU!!!

10. List out 3 good points of the person who tagged you?- Siti is a crazy girl(in a good way), She LOVES to laugh a lot!! And she cares.

11. What makes you happy? - When I'm in Korean class, when I'm eating strawberries, when I'm singing, when I'm crapping, etc.

12. What type of person do you hate the most? -The person who invented cigarettes!! Hypocrites, can't think of anyone else

13. Where do you (hope to) see yourself 10 years down the road? - preparing to be/already married, working at a media based company, being a Sunday school teacher

14. If you could have a superpower, what would it be? - To be invisible because I tend to embarrass myself very often

15. What do you think is the most important thing in your life? - my walk as a Christian.

16. What do you do when you're alone? - surfing the net, singing, watching Korean dramas.

17. If you have a chance, which part of your character would you like to change? - I wish to be a less soft-hearted person so that people won't take advantage of me.

18. One word to describe yourself. - BUBBLY (:

19. What is your ultimate addiction? - Any thing that has got to do with Korea!

20.what makes a perfect bf/gf to you?- It's for me to know and for you to find out.

Instructions: Remove 1 question from above, and add in your personal question, make it a total of 20 questions, then tag 8 people in your list, list them out at the end of this post. Notify them in their chat box that he/she has been tagged.

I've decided to skip the last part because I think it's a chore and I don't like this kind of chain stuff.

Love <3

Things I'm looking forward to
1) Volleyball training this Wednesday!! WOOOOOOHOOOOOOO
2) Tomorrow's public holiday
3)Attachment this Tuesday
4) Avenue Q's musical!
5) Ambassador's interview results

Things I'm not looking forward to.
1) School (maybe)
2) All the assignments that are slowly increasing by the minute
3) Whole family going to UK besides me!

Love <3

I think my previous entry really stinks so I've decided to take it down. This shows that there is still a LONG way for me to write at least a decent entry that actually has a proper context in it! Inspired to be like many writers who can think fast on their feet extremely well and come out with many wonderful ideas with additions of a couple of flawless words which has no(maybe) grammatical problem. This is why I should start reading a book! How ingenious of me to only figure out how important reading really is at the age of 18! Yet again, it's better than never realising it at all. It's just that there this particular BIG word that always stop me from doing what I'm suppose to do! And that would be 'LAZINESS'!

During Pastor Mitch's Friday lesson, I've learnt that it is important for us to be honest with ourselves, even more so when it comes to our spiritual growth. So I've got to me honest with myself and say that I've been avoiding the time which was supposed to be spent with the Lord each day even though I know very well what I should do and I should not do. And this is killing me! Some times I really can't stand myself and all this nonsense that comes in this so called 'package'! I'm just a bad testimony for the Lord! This brings me back to today's Sunday school lesson. Tr Val. said something which struck me real hard. She asked the class whether we are a Christian whom people can identify the minute they see us. And I can clearly say that at this point of time, I'm not one of those even though I wish to be one.(but who don't)People have to be told that I'm a Christian before acknowledging it. It can sometimes be frustrating! So this week, I would attempt to walk in Love!

At the same time, I guess all I have to do right now is to just pray and to seek The Lord and His word constantly. You know the importance of prayer is becoming more real to me each day and I realised that I can never rely on my own physical strength. So, I REALLY need to work on it!

Today is the start of bethany's YAG retreat, and I hope that the Lord will be with all the campers who are studying His word and also the Pastors who are preaching at the camp.

So all the best everyone!

Love <3

This young girl here you see in the video is Connie Talbot. She is 6 yrs of age and had already accomplished so much! She came in 2nd in the reality show called 'Britain Got Talent' and had already came out with 2 albums of her own. She is really a small little girl with lots of talent flowing within her from head to toe! And, and, Connie is able to sing many big songs which has big notes like 'Somewhere over the rainbow' and 'I will always love you' which requires a big voice to match up with the song. It is something which cannot be done by just any one, not even the pros are able to do so! One word to describe her; FABULOUS!!!! Even Simon Cowell said she is pitch perfect during the competition! What more can others say?

This video was shown to my class last year to try to motivate us to study for the Os and guess what, it really did for me, not sure about the rest but definitely for me. I wish I could have accomplish so much when I was 6 but have you ever heard of this saying 'it's never too late'?

I now, have an extra reason as to why I want to do well. It is more then just doing it for myself but mostly for the Lord. I learnt from YPG that I should think of the Lord first rather then ourselves, in prayer and in every thing we do(something which all men-kind will find it difficult to do). So this motivates me to start my gear again and get cranking so as to glorify the Lord through my results!

SO......START STUDYING SHERLYN!!!

Love <3

To all mothers, HAPPY MOTHERS' DAY!!!

This is my lovely-but-most-of-the-time-scary O Ma who is happily playing golf at China right now!

So this year's mothers' day was not happening at all besides the special programme I had in church. Pastor showed us this really funny clip which I hope to find and show you guys. But this just means I've got more time to do her present because I've not started on it yet! Today - I will attempt to do it today after Korean Class.

Love <3

It's interview time in 24 min!! Things that are going through my mind now is

1) What are they going to ask
2) Will I answer well?
3) I hope my nerves don't kick in again
4) AHHHHHH!!!!!!

Well I really do not know what to expect. My friend said that they will ask the questions which was posted on the form and we have to perform some thing...who know!! And my interviewer! Jin Hui!! People say he is nice and all but again who knows?

All the best to the other interviewee I guess(:

For me, I can only trust in the Lord's grace and guidance a lot and I just have to be myself. ok, JIA YOU sherlyn!! You can do it!!

Love <3

AHHHHHH!!!!! Microsoft Excel is killing me!!!! It's not responding and I have no idea why! Being a dumb dumb in IT, I wouldn't be able to catch up!!

SOMEONE SAVE ME!!!!

Love <3