THE INTERVIEW WITH GOD

I dreamed I had an interview with God.
“So you would like to interview me?” God asked.

“If you have the time” I said.

God smiled. “My time is eternity.”
“What questions do you have in mind for me?”

“What surprises you most about humankind?”
God answered...“That they get bored with childhood,they rush to grow up, and then long to be children again.”

“That they lose their health to make money...and then lose their money to restore their health.”“That by thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present, such that they live in neither the present nor the future.”

"That they live as if they will never die, and die as though they had never lived.”

God’s hand took mine and we were silent for a while.
And then I asked...“As a parent, what are some of life’s lessons you want your children to learn?”

“To learn they cannot make anyone love them. All they can do is let themselves be loved.”“To learn that it is not good to compare themselves to others.”

“To learn to forgiveby practicing forgiveness.”

“To learn that it only takes a few seconds to open profound wounds in those they love, and it can take many years to heal them.”

“To learn that a rich person is not one who has the most,but is one who needs the least.”“To learn that there are people who love them dearly, but simply have not yet learned how to express or show their feelings.”

“To learn that two people can look at the same thing and see it differently.”“To learn that it is not enough that they forgive one another, but they must also forgive themselves.”

"Thank you for your time," I said humbly.

"Is there anything else you would like your children to know?"

God smiled and said, “Just know that I am here... always.”

-author unknown

=) how true indeed!



the past week has been tumultous for the family, and we've been grappling with sleepless nights and worries, which all seem to be so complex. i sometimes wished we could live on earth forever and not be hurt nor depressed by the passing of one's loved one, but then i am reminded that God created resurrection and we have eternal life in Christ. thanks to the daily bread, i find miraculous answers for things that happened and i guess that's how He works to comfort us. passages about caring for orphans and widows, passages about saying a kind word, passages about death.

i'm trying not to take it so hard over gong gong's demise, but my only and biggest worry that bugs me when i open my eyes in the morning now would be my grandmother. so i really need to go over to bedok as often as i can to visit her. many people came for the wake, most of them were dad and aunty's friends and a bunch of old aunties and uncles living in the same block.

my 1st cousin taking his funny PHD on sleeping disorders flew back from dublin on the second day of the wake and it was during these 4 days that i really got to know my 3 male cousins better. jenny my 2nd cousin in law kept me awake by talking to me about her old days in VJC and how times have changed. ( and i touched her blackberry or whatever u call it) and i found out my 3rd cousin is taking mechanical engineering in NTU and his girlfriend who came for the wake was really pretty too!


tears were hard to fight back especially on the first and last day, but it all happens and perhaps God planned it to be. wanna thank michelle who took a bus ride back from parkway with me to bedok, and the 4c pals, 501 people ( and my PW team-mates too n jme who provided me with chocolate), bob and his sister, the rest of them at home, and Him.

i'm looking for "children of heaven". the 1971 or 1979 iranian film which i think will be better than jack neo's rendition of homerun. it's the original man.

yeah backtrack a bit.. all my results were released by tuesday the day gong gong passed away. i guess i did pretty fine..but somehowi still feel inadequate compared to my sister who's reading law, and even my cousins like the one doing PHD or the other 2 who graduated from temasek jc (though they are all grown up like 20+ years old). yet the horse is ready and it was all dependent on God's grace since He makes things favourable, and i'm thankful for what i already have. i just want to keep it going, and keep the flame burning fiercely.

because i know i can.

a penny for my thoughts?