The banner over me is HIS love

Monday, July 5, 2010 9:30 PM

Internship

As time flies, I'm already into my second week of my Industrial Training Programme (ITP). I'm currently attached to Changi General Hospital (CGH) for my 12 weeks of itp.

'How has it been?' is a question I get from many people. & I'm grateful that there are so many people around me who are so concern *beams!* :D
Well, I could say that everyday has been getting better. I learn something more everyday, and definitely find myself getting more useful as the days go by! hehes...
Basically, in the lab, there are a few different stations such as the central processing, blood bank, haematology, biochemistry, immunoassay etc. For my first two weeks of itp, I placed at central processing, a.k.a. the admin station for the lab. hahas.. we receive the specimens from various parts of the hospital via a pneumatic tube system, thereafter, we validate the specimens and send them to respective stations for their testings where results generated would usually be computerised and respective wards and clinic can get the results off their computer! Indeed an efficient and effective system CGH has!(:

Even though standing for almost the whole day may be tiring and not getting paid during this 3 months of internship maybe a turn-off for my internship, I do enjoy the company there. Having to meet people from all walks of life, like diploma graduates, degree holders, mothers, foreigners and even veteran of this line, I get to hear and understand many different stuff in life.

I would like to thank God, for helping me through my first week, He really gave me strength to be honest in my work, i.e., to stay vigilant not only in the spiritual aspect but also at work. Working in the hospital is really not a stress-free job. You inevitably meet into life-and-death situations as patients come in and out of the hospital non-stop. Mr Alex Tan, the clinical lab manager, often would remind the lab staff to be extremely alert in the things that we do as it concern thousands and thousands of lives. This is a great opportunity for me to learn how to take things seriously as in school experiment, I don't really bother doing the expt with much caution :p I also thank God for granting me a good group of colleagues to work with. They are very forthcoming in teaching me new stuff and would not look down on me even though I'm only an intern. & I thank God that He helped me to be a 'workman that needeth not to be ashamed'!(: ALL GLORY BE TO GOD!!:DDD

loves,
JOllyn`

Friday, July 2, 2010 9:05 PM

How's your spiritual progress?

For many believers, that must have been a very thought-provoking question.

To me, I've considered my walk with the Lord a number of times during the 10th Combined Youth Conference (CYC) which happened on the 24-26 of June(:

The Theme for this year's CYC was:

Peter's Progress: What About Mine?

Initially, I was skeptical that I would feel out of place as there were only 5 Gethsemaneans attending the camp. Darren originally planned to go for CYC but had band stuff on so he wasn't able to go. Fortunately, sissy agreed to re-schedule her time so that she could make it! Thank God!:D

The theme messages were preached to us by Pastor Koshy and he expounded greatly on the life of Simon Peter. After jotting down some notes, I've decided to write them very briefly here. These notes includes the life of Peter as well as some of the people around him.

Simon Peter was already elected to be a prominent figure even before his salvation. C.f. John 1:40, where Andrew was referred to as 'Andrew, Simon Peter's brother'
Jesus reveals to Peter that he is God by telling Peter who his father is without them telling him. C.f. John 1:42
Simon Peter was given the name 'Cephas' by Jesus, which means rock in the Aramaic language.
In Matt 4:18-22, the meaning of Cephas was made known to Peter that he would become an apostle.
In Matt 14:28-31, in the incident when Peter asking Jesus to let him walk on the choppy sea, we see his faith in God to help him walk even on the choppy sea, something which was close to impossible for humans.
*When we trust in the Lord fully, we know that we're safe. However, if we are distracted by worldly temptations, troubles would fill our minds and we sink. An example is when Peter divert his attention to the stormy sea when he should be focusing on Christ.
We see Peter as a 'leader' among Jesus's disciples. C.f. Mark 8:29, Peter was always answering first.
Even though Peter was rebuked openly by Jesus (Mark 8:33), he did not leave Him, unlike some disciples in John 6:66. In this passage, Peter exhibited the spirit of being teachable.
Satan desires to have Peter for himself (this also applies to all Christians).
God will allow the devil to trouble us so that through these trials, we learn to trust him and know the need to do so.

Well, these are some of the points which directly concerns Peter(:

alright.. that's all for the points! PICCA TIME!!:D

my bimbo, myself and sissy<3

and we're sleeping on airbed!:D

The like-minded sisters in the dorm i slept in(:

All the girls and our names! spot mine hehe!

We had dorm fellowship and Alanna taught us a new game, called 'hears love game!' interesting! especially the way the game starts hahas!...

ha ha ha ha ha, tst tst tst tst tst, lurveee lurvee, ha tst lurve GAME! hehes!

we had games on the 2nd day.. some of the pictures!

my group's chinese Carl Mcintyre! hahaas! super hilarious!!!

the games were really unique and spiritually enriching(;

our 2nd day's supper.. table full of watermelon (wo de mei ren, quote bimbo hahas!) + cup noodles which are not shown in the picture..

in the evening, we had testimony time. I shared, hahas! but it was like 90% not related to CYC, ahwell, many people's testimony also like mine! hahas!

Bimbo and myself! CHECK OUT MY EYE BAGSSSS!!! HAHAHAHASSSS!

our zhu zhu nose! hahas... this is how we get ready for testi time! -.-lll HAHAHAS!

After testi time, i went out with bimbo, samuel goh from true life, and justin from calvary tengah. Bimbo wanted to draw money and got the guys to be our 'bodyguards' ahahas! So happened that justin is a policeman! hahas! and this is my first time knowing a policeman! and samuel goh is super tall! hahahas! We were supposed to only draw money but bimbo suggested to go to pandan reservoir as she said it was really nice. hahaas! yupps true! the breeze was great even though what you see in front of you are just factories and industries hahas! Because of walking in the reservoir, we reached calvary pandan (the place we stayed) close to 2am! sleeping at that kinda time really makes my eye bags sooo much worserrr! D:

Day 3,

my slipper broke! hahas! but thank God that i brought another slipper so I dont have to go back barefooted! hahas!

my group! hahas! the informal shot is really funny and totally no order at all! hahas!

really enjoyed my time there, the people, the fellowship. I would definitely want to go again next year! would really really clear all my work before the next cyc!!!:D

loves,

JOllyn`