Fire up!
Long weekend is uber love! Gee, i could do with many many of such long weekends. I'm recharged physically, spiritually and emotionally, and ready to face the last week of Term 2! One more week to the overseas trips...Chiangmai service learning trippers, are you ready to serve and to bless? Really looking forward to know all Chiangmai trippers better because i don't teach most of them, but i know they make a fantastic bunch. And after Chiangmai is the getaway trip to somewhere...it'll be all play play and play - and i'm definitely not going to think about work there. I hope we (re)discover ourselves there. Yayyy!

Over the weekend, I took time to reflect on Term 2. Partly because of the stress over the mid-years, i think there has been more disappointments this term. How does disappointment happen? Is it because i have expectations that others fail to meet? Is disappointment self-inflicted? 

I don't have answers to those questions above, but i only know i have expectations because i believe in your potential. I've always sought after excellence in everything i do, so i guess that increases the likelihood for disappointment. But i also know disappointment only arises because i care. I remember one of my saddest days in the term was when i was marking 4H's scripts in my learning centre. At that time, one song truly expressed how i felt - James Blunt's "the same mistake". I felt like a failure despite all my sincere efforts...."And wondered where did i go wrong". But you know what? We don't wallow in disappointment. We bounce back, we plod on as courageous soldiers of Christ. I'm ready...are you? Let's never ever settle for mediocrity.

I don't regret anything, because i haven't lost anything. Perhaps it was you who has lost something instead...

This afternoon's dose of Starbucks Cafe Mocha did me much good indeed! I think i might have rekindled my passion...