What a way to end the year.

It was indeed a year of many happenings and I don't even know where to begin. But first off, yours truly has just turned 30 years old and I would like to steal a little of the time to thank God for his faithfulness and blessings in the past years. Without Him, there would be no me and no today definitely. That I am sure of. Besides thanking God, I also took a little time to thank some close friends who stood with me and accepted me over the years. So, I threw a small party at PC's house on the 17th. One of the first gifts was 99 stalks of roses! hehehe...

Poor PC. She cut her finger with the knife while preparing the food. We were gonna have steamboat.

The discipleship girls started coming and we all chipped in to prepare. As I was thinking about throwing this party, I just realised that we girls were in this discipleship group for about 6 years together. Wow. Without us realising it, it was already 6 years that we shared lives and shared tears and heart. Although we were not all best of friends but we did go through some of the good times and bad times together. It was a beautiful thought for me. So, the party was especially dedicated to thank them.

They asked around and know that Words is my love language and so they made this specially for me. There's a chocolate with a verse for 30 days! haaha... I almost cried when I saw it. It was most thoughtful of them!

Immediately the next morning was followed by a wedding. Some of you may know them - Kevin Tan & Laurene (Chai Leng). They were with us when studying at at IMU and is still very much a part of Eaglepoint even now. The wedding was held at One World Hotel. It was a beautiful wedding and all of us were happy to see them get married since they were high school sweethearts and had been dating for so long! I'm sure the people who are most happy would be their parents!

Caught the cheeky face of Pastor Shawn & Jill's daughter (Kristen) and can't resist to post it up! hahhaa...

The wedding crew were powered by some Eaglepoint-ers! I was NOT the coordinator but YC ended up cue-ing the sound?! YC the soundgirl?! hahaha..

Aww... PC and the bride. She was also the one that shared a verse during the ceremony in the morning. Pastor Steven was the "spiritual MC" and Pastor Shawn preached a message.

Followed closely was the church staff christmas gift exchange party! yahoo! Was supposed to be a lunch thing but due to changes in schedule, ended up being a breakfast thing. The night before, many of us toong-siew (work overnight) and stayed at church and woke up to the party! hahaha... Everyone was supposed to come in something red or green and bring a present for another staff that they picked the name out of a bag. They were also supposed to share one thing they discovered about the person in the week preceding this event.

I wanted to thank the staffs and so the food was on me this morning! It was a Malaysian breakfast - there was sausage and egg and bread and there was pau and siew mai and such - whatever goes. Everyone tried to discover something new about their colleague and shared. I got something from Pastor Steven - Tesco Voucher! hahaha... Pastor Tim actually sms-ed Aaron to find out what would Chrystin like and got her a hand bag! wow! hahaha..

Then, it was Christmas Service already. Felt like we just had the Christmas service last year and now it's already here and over. This year, 1a.m. pulled the plugs and did a musical journey with the FLC ensemble! It was really good!

Cuzario's drummer students came together for one of the piece as well!

And of course Pastor Tim preached on the gift that changes everything!

Every year, PC and Kel will throw a family party some time during the Christmastime. Gathering all the family together for a meal. For the past few years, it was held at Pastor Tim's house but THIS YEAR, they moved into their own house by the lake and we were all gathered at their place! I was the god-sister so I got invited annually too ...

Being a chemist by education, she was not preparing salad but making a "chemistrically-felt-right-mixture" of the ingredients!

I helped to grill the chicken wings...

After that, there was the Community at Heart post coming up. And I left to Bali for a break with Yean Ching and Jocelyn. Annual retreat from the busyness in life! See you next year!