today's pdp was quite memorable. argh. so many stuff to enter, but i'm also so tired already... and i mentioned i wanted to write abt the new friends tt i met who have wonderful testimonies... and i also want to write abt today... oh well... briefly briefly abt each then.

one of the new friends i met on sat was clarence. he was from normal academic in lower sec. but u know he was in the hcjc caregroup when i met him yesterday. and of course he was in hcjc. duh. yes, normal accademic in lower sec. and his story is truly amazing. he was quite demoralised in sec1, and he was telling us how he then worked hard to end up winning 9 of the 10 accademic prizes in his cohort. so after sec2 he went around looking for another school cause he wanted to go into express. went to about 10 schools, and was rejected by all. but God was with him all the way. finally went to chung cheng, and when he met the principal, he thought she was a cleaning lady. :) cause she was carrying coffee and looked quite disheveled. and at tt time there were abt 50 pple on the waiting list. but favour was on him and when he talked to the principal, she offered him a place immediately in front of the 50 others. wow. and from then on he just kept witnessing how God worked in his life in the academic field, and he just continued to do very well in all his tests, even if he didn't really study too hard. and then, he got to hcjc.

wow. he's in j1 now. aspiring doctor. normal academic. hcjc.

and tt's not the end of it. he did a diploma in accounting while studying this year, and is now planning to do a degree in accounting while still studying in jc. he has still been doing very well in school. by the grace of God.

when he tells pple his story, no one believes him. me too at first. i bet u too. but it's true. it's just simply amazing.

i know the miracle tt God has worked in his life, and i know tt the same is possible for me too. cause we serve the same living God.

then abt the patient who i met today at pdp. can't remember her name though. but she'll leave an unforgettable impression on me. why? for those who are in my pdp, u would understand why. she's suffering from diabetes, family history of it as well. and her left eye's blind from cataracts (i think) due to the diabetes; neuropathy and therefore leading to amputation of both legs - the left at the hip joint and right above the knee joint; water retention in both arms; and her right eye is steadily losing vision.

on top of tt, her husband is jobless, and who anyway has to stay at home to look after her, and they have financial problems.

doesn't have any children.

so why should someone like her impress me so much?

cause in all her trials, she isn't depressed. yes, although she has her own fair share of worries. in fact, she seems less troubled than many of us before/after a CA. to us, the CA is like one of the biggest concerns in our lives, but frankly when compared to her problems, they simply don't hold a candle.

and yet she wasn't depressed.

when jiabin asked her why, she replied in chinese, "because i'm a believer in Christ. and i cast my cares on Him." tt was the essence of what she was saying, and those in my pdp grp can vouch for tt.

something just like stirred a bit in me.

"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength." Isaiah 26:3,4

now THAT set me thinking.

goodnight.