Light beyond the storm.
""He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men;
"yet they cannot fathom what God has done from the beginning to end.” – Ecclesiastes 3:11
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Sunday, September 21, 2008 new post finally! Havent been updating for 1 month plus. Let's see... work is ok, lots of marking, teaching, preparing and admin. But generally still fine. Have really nice seniors at work and good friends to play with. =D Went to cambodia from 27 aug to 31 aug. Missed my first teachers' day. Quite sad, cos i was involved in the planning and couldn't be around to see the results. Thank God that everything went well, and most of the teachers enjoyed it. =) Was initially very anxious and apprehensive for the cambodia trip because i didnt know anyone else on the trip except mr tang. Well, huihui is shy you know. HAHA.. And the best thing was, i woke up late on the morning i'm flying off.. super paiseh. :p Didnt miss the plane la, was just late for meeting up with the rest. Mr tang, siva and choilin waited for me, checked in and all. but they went in first and left me with my parents and sis. Suddenly felt like i've grown up when i walked through the gates on my own..... Luckily i met up with mr tang and walked on together. :) Not my first trip to cambodia, so pretty thankful because at least it wasnt so foreign... We visited tuol sleng museum, a korean missionary's dye house, village works on the first day. Quite ok, just saddened again to see the museum. Such cruelty of human... mr tang asked why did God allow such things to happen? I knew the standard model answer was... because it's man's choice, man's sin. But i felt a sadness in my heart... God, we do need Your intervention, even today. Was amazed at the korean missionary's obedience to God, to leave everything in korea and go to cambodia. And amazingly, he found his wife in the process.. really a testimony of obedience and God's blessing. During debrief, quite a few mentioned him and questioned his decision. Saw it as irrational and dont know how real it can be. Wanted to stand up for him... but yet i know, it's difficult for others to see the blind faith. I pray though, that i might have this type of faith. Second day,went to dumpsite, lakesite, killing field and widow's island. Was really an experience for me... seeing the huge amount of waste, flies everywhere, smelly, unhygenic... yet the people had to walk through the rubbish to collect useful things, burn them away and live beside them. I remember ps rol showed a photo of a little girl in cambodia and i recognised that i could be that girl, staying in the bad conditions. That day, i saw the little children, i was reminded of how blessed i am in spore. They too, are God's children... And when a little boy touched my hand to say hi. My first reaction was... gosh, so dirty, i need to clean my hands later. But immediately, God spoke to my heart. it's an innocence of a child, and compassion for them. I felt guilty and changed my attitude. The small streets they lived in were worse. Every hut was linked, barely a shelter, with only some metal/cardboard as ceiling and walls. Cloth to cover the rest of the huts, which are held up by sticks from grounds that were wet and soggy. A fire can easily destroy everything... but every one had no choice but stay there. Yet they smiled at us... the simplicity.... the lakesite was slightly better.... houses are more well done, but not very. Similar to our kampong times. Oh oh.. i saw snail's eggs! Really interesting because the people catch snails from the lake, sell or eat them. The children are just happily running around and looking at us, visitors.. HAHa. we must be weirdo. And a little boy cheekily pressed a food wrapper into my hand. HAHA! Killing field... saw pictures from xiangru and pastor before. Not too emotional, but again saddened.. like.. thousands of people were just slaughtered as if their lives didnt matter. how can a man be so selfish, to think of himself, wanting to clean up the society and make everyone submissive to him, with no mind of their own. Turning people into killing machines, separating families and causing so much pain. :( Went to widow's island last. Quite sad, cos the govt wanted to "help" the widows after all the war, brought them and the orphans to the island. But left them there because of the lack of ability to provide and help. Really simple place too... the widows learn to wieve, make handicrafts, plant padi, rear animals.... Third day was shopping, and travelling on a super long ride to siam rep. Really love the beautiful landscape. i took so many photos... HAHA.. the blue sky, green fields, padi, cows, huts.... never see in spore. =) And enjoyed talking to mr tang, found out more about my neighbour. HAHa... pretty surprised that we could share so much... now i know his secret and he knows mine. HAHA Siam rep.. more tourist place. Visited the temples on the fourth day. To me, it was like seeing my history textbook came to live! Seeing how a kingdom rose and collapsed, seeing cravings on the walls, seeing how the people were talented to crave, build, design the temples. Like... wow... the kings must have spent the entire life building the temples... we climbed up one of the temples to see the sunset. super challenging! The steps were so steep... imagine.. around 15 cm wide and 30 cm high steps... to almost hmm... 5 storeys? i'm scared of heights u know... but i conquered it! heh heh... Last day was just travelling to airport and flying back to spore. Such eventful trip and..... i must say, i enjoyed the trip. HAHA. made lots of friends... though i seemed to be the target of "suaning", they always suan me. But they did take care of me, cos i'm the youngest. HAHA.. i guess i'll remember this trip. =) Wow.. long post le. HAHa... shall stop here. Will be back to share more. =) -The Princess Jesus Loves- 10:41 PM
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