Welcome to Ada's life ♥
Sometimes,
the only thing that takes to make us happy,
is to stop wishing for anything,
and to be delighted by everything.
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The name’s Ada, and I’m nineteen.
I'm an NUS High graduate, Class of 2011.
I was in awesome M07202, went to M09407 with some of the most wonderful and amazing people that I've ever met, and graduated with smarty pantsy M11602.
Mount Carmel Youth Ministry is where you can find me on Sunday mornings.
I’m a childofGod; and I’m totally in love with Jesus. :)
Kehilla CG is the best, and I wouldn't trade my cell group for anything in the world.
I play and teach the piano, and would really like to learn the drums. :D
Chocolate, ice-cream and procrastination are my biggest weaknesses. But in entirely different ways, of course.
My ambitions have changed too many times over the past few years; my current one is a secret. After all, there is only so much you can find out about me from my blog.
The Resolutions for 2012:
1) Trust God always, because I know He is in control.
2) Be optimistic :)
3) Keep my language pure.
4) Love everyone ♥
Welcome to half of my life. You’ll have to get to know me in person to find out the other half. :)
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012 5:59 AM
tell 'em that it's human nature
Well well, received my first rejection. I'm quite sad, but pretty much able to deal with the fact - perhaps the closing of one door will lead to the opening of another! And it narrows down the paths which I can take too. But another side of me has been doubting and questioning what if all the doors are shut? What if I don't make it anywhere? What if I'm simply not good enough for anything? I've been flattering myself too much. Just because I applied for a relatively easy course in universities that aren't exactly top notch and got into all of them, doesn't mean I'm anywhere near the top of the playing field.This is a dose of reality, the hard way I guess.
I don't exactly know what I want to do in future anymore. I'm too afraid of having such high hopes; I know it'll only set me up for disappointment if I don't meet them.
I want to be able to make a difference in other people's lives.
I want to continue writing and weaving a magical world of stories.
I want to put a smile of the faces of others.
I want to have a fulfilling life - get married, have kids, all that cliched stuff.
I want to share the gospel with others.
I want to learn more, find out more, never ever stop learning every day.
I want to save lives.
I want to find beauty in the dullest of things, in the most mundane things.
I want to have a social life.
I want to be able to find love - both in a person and in the job I do.
I want to be ridiculously fanatically idealistic; I don't ever want to stop dreaming. Life ends when you give up on your dreams.
I want to be able to look back at the end of my life and know that I have walked down the path that God has set out for me.
I want to continue making music, playing the piano, just worshiping God in a band.
I want to go on serving more in church.
I want to tell my stories, even if they should break my heart.
I want to help mend the broken hearts of others.
Yes, the lofty aspirations of an eighteen year old. Someday I'll look back at this list and find myself foolish for having wanted to do so many things. But maybe someday this list will remind me of who I used to be and spur that future me on to have greater goals, larger dreams, higher aspirations.
For now, I should just get back to the present. Just trying to overcome my disappointment - and I wish you actually cared about how I feel.
Friday, March 09, 2012 3:19 AM
after a loooong hiatus.
And so, after a long hiatus, I'm back to blogging! What exactly inspired the sudden comeback, you may ask. Nothing in particular, actually. I just decided that I want to continue writing on a regular basis (be it through bite sized posts on this blog or writing actual stories) and perhaps, some time in the future, I can read through my archived posts on this blog and recall all the happy memories of the past. And another reason is that I started to look through all my old archives today when I was bored - and I've really missed being able to chronicle everyday events on a blog. So yes, I'm back. :)In any case, I'm far too lazy (and too busy!) to go through the hassle of coming up with another blog address, creating a new blog, choosing the blogskin and editing it (gasp) so I've just decided to make do with this and continue from where I have stopped. :D The skin's quite pretty, no? I'll just have to set up a new tagboard and clear it from all that spam and edit the "About Me" section - goodness gracious, I'm no longer sixteen. Hahah.
Maybe a little update on what I've been up to all this while.
Nothing much, really. I'm trying my hand at giving tuition and working - especially since I have a long holiday till August! Hoping to earn some money on the side too, before I enter university :) I've been applying for all manner of scholarships and university courses and I really hope I get into the course of my choice - provided that it's where God wants me to be too.
I've been using this time to go out and catch up with old friends too - although all the frequent lunches and dinners outside have been taking quite a toll on my wallet. :( As for church, I'm in youth comm now and officially an oldie. Hahah, so much for laughing at the older youth last time~ After spending so much time away from church for the past two years due to school and other commitments, it's great to be able to spend Sundays with the churchies again and commit more of my time to God this year. :) I'd almost forgotten how fun it is to hang out with the youth until the LIGHT dinner last saturday - we whipped up a JUNIOR MASTER CHEF's standard dinner of spaghetti and stuff for the Light peeps :D
Each dish was supposed to bear a significance behind it - like the breaded fish was supposed to represent the five loaves and two fishes; the drinks were supposed to be about Jesus being the living water etc. you get the idea. And Bertrand had the amazing idea of declaring the spaghetti sauces to be "Sauce of Hope and Sauce of Strength" - I believe I'll never sing In Christ Alone the same way ever again! Hahah! In any case, the food was really yummy and the company was great. Loved laughing at Joelle's laughter and talking to everyone, even though I kept getting suanned by JC and Jason about the oranges that I peeled and cut. :/ At least no one got sick from them :D I hope.
Wow I've digressed. On another note, I've been able to catch up with Heidi, Serene, Bernadine, Rachel (my primary school friend) and quite a few others during the past few weeks - and I've been able to go out a few times alone too (cue foreveralone meme). It's rather interesting how now that I'm more mature, I'm no longer afraid of going out alone or eating alone too, for that matter! I watched Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close with a friend last week, and teared quite a bit during the movie. It's a really good show and extremely poignant as well. ALL OF YOU SHOULD GO WATCH IT NOW! :D
Oh no my dad just interrupted my train of thought by passing me the mail. Okay I guess this is long enough for a first post. :)
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Saturday, April 16, 2011 7:23 AM
:O
I'm very tired, hahaha, I don't think I can take round 2 anymore.
Tuesday, April 05, 2011 1:29 AM
it's you, it's you, you make me sing.
APs are coming!!!! Gotta start taking my work see-ree-ous-ly already. :) I feel like I'm stuck in a rut, moving nowhere, and I've got to finish up all my work and meet all my short-term deadlines before I can really start mugging for the exams. On the bright side, I can't wait for exams to be over - the ASH Little India trip (where we're gonna buy our saris for racial harmony day hehe), and I badly need to finish my Holga film since I haven't had the opportunity to go out since forever! Besides, our 602 clique needs to go on our exploring Singapore for good food adventure :D We've been talking about it last year, but have never had the chance to carry it out. Anyway, I hope there's 407 chalet too :D this year'd better not be an exception, I'm kinda looking forward to just slacking and catching up with everyone there - the bunch of people who can tolerate all my nonsense and are willing to do the craaaaziest things together just for the sake of it :D
It's the only motivation that's keeping me holding on. :D It's been a mad week for me, otherwise. Hahah I've just wasted one week coming back to square one - and it's kinda frustrating to think that I'm back in the same spot, I could have saved all my time and energy! But I guess sometimes God puts detours in our lives so we could learn something out of it :3 I don't know what the lesson is this time, but I've definitely learnt to pray before making an important decision!
I hope I haven't wasted too much time since the beginning of the year already :( I'll try my best and leave the rest to God :D
Monday, March 28, 2011 8:52 PM
Hello world :)
Hahah I haven't posted a public post (that isn't password-protected) for quite a while already! For various reasons, namely, being lazy :D and not having much things to say here anyway. :D I don't know who exactly still bothers to read this, so yup :)We had english summative and 2.4 run yesterday :O And the sun was sooo terrible it gave me a headache afterward :/ Hahah so I slept at 8pm yesterday..........for a total of 15h of sleep today :) I'm such a pig I should be ashamed of myself. But it feels really good to sleep for so long, wake up, realise it's still dark, and go back to sleep again :D
I think I use too many emoticons. Hmm mock APs are coming up really soon! And not to mention the real APs and the SATs I signed up for - and we've got a gazillion tests/quizzes/project deadlines too! For some reason I'm quite excited for our talent search semi finals this saturday! I hope my wedges don't cause mega blisters on my feet again :) I should really be getting back to studying and drawing our bio project video stuff now.
Hahah I need to get my life back on track, seriously. I'm losing focus ):
Monday, January 10, 2011 7:05 AM
2 hands, 1 heart, 1 life.
Lord, make me more like You. I want to be thankful for all You've given me, for this house, this family, these friends, this school, this country, everything. Instead of sitting around and complaining about what I do not have, and ignoring all the blessings You have poured out onto me.But Lord, at this point, I'm still struggling with so many things.. It's making me unhappy and I can't explain why. Tell me what to do, show me the right way, please.