2007年的最后一天

Today is the last day of 2007! 时间过得真快！明天就是1月1日了，在国外跨年的感觉很奇怪，不会特别兴奋，因为正在预备考试，但明天还是会跟朋友去大吃一顿，庆祝新的一年的到来！一月份的到来，也代表着，我离回家只有20天的时间。有一点点小兴奋。非常期待！=）

不知2008年会是怎么样的一年，毕业之后不知道我前面的路该怎么走，真的求主引领！但我知道，在新的一年，主还是会依然地保守和看顾着我们的。。。

12月31日也是ah gong的生日。
前几天，我的同学靖平的公公去世了，他已赶回新加坡，不回来了，考试会在新加坡考。靖平跟他的公公感情非常好，所以突然去世的消息对他来说是个不小的打击。现在不知道他在新加坡的情况如何。。。看着他，我也想起我的ah gong，ah gong 已经离开我们6年了。那时我才13岁，真的很可惜，我好希望他现在还在，让我有机会好好地孝顺他，也有机会跟他培养感情，就像我和ah ma一样。没关系，到了天堂还可以见面的！您在天堂一定很开心吧！=) Happy birthday ah gong!!

也在这里提前祝大家新年蒙恩！！

Blessed Christmas! 圣诞蒙恩！

To my family (爸爸/妈妈/姐姐/荣顺，ahma, uncles, aunties, cousins, God bro Issac), my Church brothers and sisters, and all my friends back in Singapore, 雪薇在这里（杭州）祝大家
圣诞蒙恩, BLESSED CHRISTMAS！=)

And of course, I wanna wish my dear Jesus a very Blessed Birthday! =)

Here is a song which I like a lot, it reminded me that Christmas is not all about gifts and parties, but about Jesus, who was born into this world for our sake…Yeap, we are the reason!

We are the Reason
As little children
We would dream of Christmas morn
Of all the gifts and toys
We knew we'd find
But we never realized
A baby born one blessed night
Gave us the greatest gift of our lives

We are the reason
That He gave His life
We are the reason
That He suffered and died
To a world that was lost
He gave all He could give
To show us the reason to live

As the years went by
We learned more about gifts
The giving of ourselves
And what that means
On a dark and cloudy day
A man hung crying in the rain
All because of love, all because of love

I've finally found the reason for living
It's in giving every part of my heart to Him
In all that I do every word that I say
I'll be giving my all just for Him, for Him

He is my reason to live

Exam Dates!!!

Okie, I got my exam dates faster than I expected..so here it is:

3/1(Thurs)—新闻采访与写作
5/1(Sat)—中国哲学精粹
7/1(Mon)—阅读与写作
8/1(Tues)—中国通史
10/1(Thurs)—中国古代文学

The duration for all the five exams are from 8.30am-10.30am..anyway, 中国通史and 古代文学 are the 2 subjects which i'm more worried for...yup
so please pray for me! Thanks a lot! =)
and its time to start mugging!!! argh

祢的爱

跟你们分享赞美之泉的一首歌，（可能AGPC有唱过，我不知道）但这首歌对我来说非常有意义。它陪我度过了很多寂寞的夜晚，给了我很多的鼓励，让我就算感到失落，还能继续走下去。就这样，我在杭州走了105天。。。

《祢的爱》
Verse
祢创造宇宙万物 统管一切所有
但祢却关心我的需要 了解我的感受
祢手铺陈天上云采 打造永恒国度
但这双手却甘心为我 忍受撤骨钉上苦痛
Bridge
祢公义审判万民 圣洁光照全地
但祢却一再施恩典 一再施怜悯 给我机会回转向祢
Chorus
祢的爱　如此温柔　超乎我心所想
这样大有能力的主 竟捧我在手掌心上
祢的爱　如此深切　我知我无以报答　
但愿倒空我的生命　学习祢谦卑的样式
背起我自己的十字架

谢谢耶稣的爱，陪我走到了第15周，多一个星期，我就要上课结束了。然后就要考试了。第一个卷子在1月3日，最后一个应该是在10日吧。详细的考试日期还不知道。知道了，会跟大家说的。现在也非常忙碌，还在赶作业，算是最后一批的作业了。回想这个学习，不知作了多少大大小小的作业，在新加坡都没有这么忙过！唉，有一些累了，所以需要你们为我祷告！来临星期二是圣诞节，但那天有一个作业要交，星期四也有多一个作业要交，看来不能好好庆祝了！其实，也没有什么庆祝活动，因为中国不庆祝圣诞的=（。但我知道你们现在应该很兴奋吧，圣诞节要到了。教会也会在明晚有庆祝晚会。在这里先预祝大家“圣诞节蒙恩！”。希望你们在庆祝圣诞节之余，不要忘记在中国为着学业拼搏的雪薇好吗？不然我会非常伤心和emo的。哈哈。特别要记得为我祷告！谢谢你们啦！May God bless you!

绍兴！

终于拿回相机了！星期四晚上才拿回，是到导游家里跟她拿。真的很不好意思，以后一定会好好检察物品后才下车的！

Anyway，上星期六的绍兴一日游，我们只去了三个地方，一是鲁迅祖居/故居。鲁迅相信大家都认识，所以我也不多做介绍。

二是沈园，以下是沈园的介绍，沈园原为沈姓旧业，是南宋时当地名园。园中有芦池，上有石板小桥，连同池边假山、水井，均为当年旧物。 南宋诗人陆游初婚唐琬，后被迫离异。绍兴二十五年（1155年），二人在沈园邂逅。当时唐琬已改嫁，陆游也另娶。陆游一时感慨万端，在园壁题《钗头凤》词一首云：“红酥手，黄滕酒，满城春色宫墙柳。东风恶，欢情薄，一杯愁绪，几年离索。错，错，错！春如旧，人空瘦，泪痕红邑鲛绡透。桃花落，闲池阁，山盟虽在，锦书难托。莫，莫，莫！”极言痛若之情。唐见后和作一首，中有：“病魂常似秋千索”，“怕人寻问，咽泪装欢，瞒，瞒，瞒！”之语，不久抑郁而死亡。《陆游集》中，有记咏沈园、追念往事的诗多首。。。

三是到兰亭景区。以下是兰亭的介绍。兰亭，位于绍兴城西南13公里的兰渚山麓。据传，春秋时越王勾践种兰于此，东汉时建有驿亭，因而得名。“此地有崇山峻岭，茂林修竹，又有清流急湍，映带左右。”自然景观幽雅怡人。而东晋王羲之在此书写了著名的《兰亭集序》，更使兰亭闻名遐迩。兰亭，融秀美的山水风光、雅致的园林景观、独享的书坛盛名、丰厚的历史文化积淀于一体，以“景幽、事雅、文妙、书绝”四大特色而享誉海内外，成为中国一处重要的名胜古迹。

在期中考试之间，我们曾学习过 《兰亭集序》，因此能够到兰亭一趟，实在是非常难得！而且也到了诗人陆游和他的恋人分离后再次邂逅的地方，还有到了鲁迅先生住过的地方，真的非常开心。=）


这些是在鲁迅祖居（祖先居住的地方）/ 鲁迅故居（鲁迅的家）拍的照片：

jiahui, xuan, duan and me!


这些是在沈园拍的照片：

back row: peipei, duan, jiahui

front row: weiling, huiyu, me

pretty gals at 沈园! (taken by kehong)

me and kehong

这些是在兰亭拍的照片：

the four of us sitting on a bridge! and at the top right hand corner, tt's alex waving! haha.

this part of lan ting is so so so beautiful! plus it was sunset then! it was like wow...... =)

haha, that's duan, me n jiahui trying to be silly.........

anyway, week 14 has ended le...now moving on to week 15 le..left 2 more weeks of school! after that will be exams! i still have tons of work to do, sigh..but i will surely jiayou de!

guess singapore is full or christmas mood yea? 羡慕羡慕。但没关系，至少我还可以回家过年！＝）

有空再blog!

绍兴一日游+相机失而复得

昨天学校带我们去了绍兴一趟。玩了一整天才回去学校。本来还高高兴兴的。但去吃了晚餐，回到宿舍后，才发现相机不见了！我猜想一定是留在旅游巴士上了。因为在回程的时候，我还有拿相机出来拍一点照片。但好像没放回包包里，后来又睡着了。所以可能是掉在地上或是掉进缝里头了。Sigh，我真粗心。应该检查后才下车的。可是那时刚睡醒，迷迷糊糊的。之后就回到宿舍放东西，再去吃晚餐。放东西时，我有把我的物品全拿出来，只是那时也不知道为什么没有察觉相机不在包包里头。是吃了晚餐回到宿舍里头，还冲好凉了以后，才发觉相机不见了。那时已经11点多了。我们坐的巴士是中青旅中公司。昨天带团的导游没有留下电话，但还好我们有之前带我们到西湖的导游的电话（她也是中青旅游公司的），所以就打给她，让她帮我联系昨天的导游。昨天的导游在十多分钟后联系我，跟我说，她联络不上司机，所以明天（星期天）会再帮我找司机。Sigh我昨晚根本无法入眠，终于等到今天早上，但等啊等，等到10点多，还是没电话进来。我因此就发了简讯给导游，她跟我说，她已经跟司机讲了。司机先生也一定会去检查的，结果如何也会跟她说的。所以我就只好等了。Wah，原来等待一通重要的电话是如此难耐的。时间过得好慢好慢。一个小时，两个小时，三个小时，四个小时。多难等啊！但感谢神，终于在2点10分时，从司机口中知道，我的相机已被他找到了！！实在太高兴了！！really really thank God。。这件事让我想了很多很多，我在想，如果找不回，我会如何面对呢？我还会不会感谢主？神要我学习什么功课呢？这些问题我还还没好好思考，但我知道，失而复得的东西会更令我珍惜的。以后无论坐什么车，我一定会检查包包才下车的。不会再让东西不见了。不见东西令人觉得好痛苦哦。
对了，还好相机找回来了，不然也不能给你们看我所拍的珍贵照片和回忆！等我拿到相机后会upload给你们看。应该会在今晚或明天去找司机。放心，会有朋友陪我去的。

难忘的星期五

昨天我陪了xuan 到医院去。那是我们第二次去。第一次，她是去看皮肤科，因为手长了怪怪的红斑。昨天去是去看骨科，因为她的膝盖很疼痛。我们去的医院是“杭州第二市人民医院”，离我们学校非常近。 在杭州，他们没有所谓的诊所，大病小病都去医院。其实我们学校有校医，但他真的很没用，言行举止非常吊儿郎当。每次给他看，都会叫我们到医院去。到了医院，就要先登记，然后柜台小姐就分配我们到什么楼、什么科去。xuan因为没有摔伤过，医生也看不出什么问题，就叫她去照x-ray。忘了跟你们说，中国医院都相当简陋，跟新加坡比起来，真的是相差十万八千里！听xuan描述，他们x-ray 不需要脱衣服，只需躺在那边给他们照几下就行了。

Anyway, 我陪xuan的过程中，看到医护人员把一位紧急病患送来放射科（x-ray），紧急给他照x-ray。那位病人好像是出了车祸，头部严重受伤。我看了，实在是毛骨悚然！。心寒了一下。我其实很害怕看到这种场面。受伤真的是件可怕的事情。我好害怕我身边的人受伤。当下，我也急忙向神祷告，祈求那名病患可以好起来，也同时为我的健康感谢神！我也祈求神能够让我平平安安地回新加坡。因为在这里，好像到处都是虎口，尤其是马路上。

后来，因为xuan必须等一个小时才能拿到她的x-ray片，赶不及上课，所以就叫我先回去。我就急忙赶回学校去，还好没有迟到。后来xuan大概在我回去后的一个小时，就回到了学校。之后我们就到舟山东路去吃晚餐。去一个叫“末莉”的餐厅。那边有卖非常好吃的意大利餐。=）星期五了，终于可以好好的享受，给自己一个喘气的机会。

还有，晚上回到宿舍后，我心血来潮，跟xuan洗起厕所来，把厕所刷得干干净净。非常有满足感。我想这也是我发泄的好方法吧。是，昨天是有些不开心。是关于成绩的。但今天想通了。不是我退步了，是人家进步了。我只管做好自己该做的事，虽然成绩和排名也许不再是全班第一，也许就会因此令对我期望高的老师们失望，也许会引来等着我跌倒的同学们的嘲笑，但，他们又能把我怎么样？退一步，海阔天空。太看重，反而越不能如愿。我想这也许是神给我的一种磨练自己更经得起社会的现实的机会吧。

祝你６０周年快乐！

今天，我的教会举行了６０周年的庆祝、感恩礼拜。我要在这里祝我的教会，长老会嘉恩堂，60周年快乐！但很遗憾，我无法到场跟大家一起欢庆。还好荣顺把礼拜的bulletin电邮给我了，所以我大概可以“想象”你们今天做了什么。。在bulletin里面，有牧者的话、诗歌、也有从50周年到60周年，我们教会所历经的一切。。我也读了一下。我为我的教会感谢神！但愿嘉恩堂每一年都能成长，成为一个更合神心意的教会！还有，７０周年的庆祝，我一定要到！不可以再错过了。哈哈。May God bless Abundant Grace Presbyterian Church richly!

Dear Father, I put AGPC in your hands. As we celebrate our 60th birthday, I pray that as members of the body of Christ we will live with complete lowliness of mind(humility) and meekness (unselfishness, gentle-ness, mildness), with patience, bearing with one another and making allowances because we love one another. We commit to be in the same mind　(united in spirit), sympathizing [with one another], loving [each other], compassionate and courteous—tenderhearted and humble-minded. We will never return evil for evil or insult for insult, but on the contrary, we will bless—praying for their welfare, happiness, and protection and truly pitying and loving one another. Father, Thank you that Jesus has given us glory and honour that You gave Him, that we may be one! For the many years ahead of us, may You lead us to become a stronger and powerful testimony for You! Father, may Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven! In Jesus’s most precious name I pray, AMEN!

--Blessings from xuewei from miles away! =)

Food+Crazy Night!

Last tues (20/11), me and weixuan went to eat at this restaurant “Croissants de France” at Ouchan..i ate lasagna while xuan ate baked rice..we both ordered the set meal which includes salad and soup (with garlic bread!) and its cost only 35 rmb (7 sing) per meal! So cheap and so nice..and the service is quite good too! haha, pics for u all to see again!

Then on sat, me, weixuan and duanhui had a super exciting night! We went to this place called 湖滨路to have dinner at AJISEN!! Hu bin lu is along the coast of xihu, and there are many restaurants and branded shops (eg, Hermes, Armani etc) and Grand Hyatt(!!!) along hu bin lu..but the main thing is, its along xihu, so its super nice! and the place looks super lots like Clarke quay la! =) and just nice there was a performance (music fountain) on xihu that night..so we watched it before going for dinner...

Hyatt along xihu..

the street i am talking about..hu bin lu..

look like clarke quay right?

Musical fountain!!

and this is Ajisen!

Contended duan and xuan

Happy me! Hasn’t eat jap food since we came china so we were really excited! I ordered unagi set for only 32 rmb! We ordered some side dishes too..and the whole meal only cost us around 46 rmb per person..thank God for nice and cheap jap food!

And now..very exciting stuff to share with all of you!! We went on to have another round of dinner at a restaurant next door to ajisen, and its PRIMA TASTE TRUE SINGAPORE CUISINE! Haha. The restaurant is so so so high class, but they are selling our hawker centre food stuff! To name a few, laksa, satay, chicken rice and deserts like ice kachang etc..so its quite funny…but nevertheless, we felt really 亲切 ! the three of us ordered carrot cake, satay and bobo chacha to share..but its not cheap! 60 rmb in total, for really small serving! Hmm..the taste of course cannot be compared to Singapore de, but close to le lah…but no matter wad, we were very contended already..

me and duan with our dear singapore food!!! awwwww...

Then we went shopping and then to sing karaoke! Haha.seriously crazy night! They call karaoke 卡拉鼠…cute name yea? But then u’ll ask me, what so crazy about it yea? Haha, the thing is, we actually sang till the next morning! First time liddat wor! But at first, I wasn’t very willing to stay overnight outside de..but then dun wanna “splash cold water” on duan n xuan..and plus sing short short while really not shiok enough..so ya.but okie la, I think its okie to relax once in a while..and since for the following few weeks, there won’t be much chances for us to relax le…will be concentrating on assignments and revision le! And guess this kind of overnight karaoke will only be a once in a lifetime chance (with poly frens) .yup.

okie, thats me singing..

杭州交通+延安路

交通情况
曾说过要跟你们分享杭州的交通。。这里的交通可算是相当的混乱。有交通灯也等于没交通灯，司机们只要看到没车没人，就会继续的行驶。不然就是，即使有人要过马路，他们只要能比你快，也还是会冲过去的。所以在这里过马路要特别小心。杭州车很多，而且司机的驾驶技术都非常纯熟、大胆，而且很快。如果他们在新加坡驾车一定会被烦死，新加坡人在这里开车也一定会被吓死。如果你在新加坡遇到再野蛮的司机，也一定至少比新加坡的司机好多。。以前在新加坡开车时，有时会埋怨有些司机驾车没有耐性，没有公德心，但来到这边后，我真的很appreciate新加坡的司机们了，也很怀念新加坡良好的交通秩序。。。但现在我们已适应了这里的交通，过马路也比较大胆了。但还是请你们继续为我在这里的安危祷告。
延安路
我们很喜欢到一个叫“延安路”的地方逛街。延安路就像新加坡的 orchard road，可算是市中心，有一排排的广场和购物中心。那里有一间地方叫做“银泰”，很像takashimaya..东西比较贵，而且还有breadtalk! Yes yes..breadtalk from Singapore! so excited to see it..last time when Rs came to find me, we went there to buy bread too! haha yea.
So here are pics for u all to see…..pics of 延安路, and the road conditions there..

Metersbonwe--big big shopping centre at 延安路..looks cool yea?

thought of showing u all pics of Y8 too..the bus which I mentioned..我们去很多地方都是以它代步的。无论到哪里，都只需要付2rmb。

"interchange" of Y8

a typical bus stop condition in hangzhou

me on Y8! haha.actually it was very squeezy..but didn't manage to take a pic of what it looks like..anyway, i feel like a sardin, it was super packed! can ask Rs too! he experienced it before! =)

Father, You are my Refuge and Fortress. No evil shall befall me – no accident shall overtake me—nor any plague or calamity come near my home. You give Your angels special charge over me to accompany and defend and preserve me in all ways of obedience and service. They are encamped around me. Father, You give me safety and ease me—Jesus is my safety!

--Prayers that avail much

Hangzhou Zoo+灵隐寺+永福寺

On Sunday, Me and a few of my classmates went Hangzhou zoo, 灵隐寺and永福寺 which is all around the xi hu area...it was really tiring cuz we were walking a lot..and really cold too!! My hands and feet were so numb that I couldn’t walk properly...ya..but overall, it was quite fun, though the zoo is not that well built la..but we saw panda! Wohoo.
Haha, so pics for u all to see!：

the zoo's map and a small me...

the bears in hangzhou like to sit, just like this

(from left: winnie, jingping, me and kehong) we got very amused by this little goat, cute isn’t it? And very tamed too..but heard the keepers say it bites! But don’t seem like to us lei...

and yes, highlight of the day!!! Panda! But it lied in this postion for very long! Seems real bored.. Really like 趴地熊 right? but thrilled to see panda in real life!

me and panda...

(from left: xuan, winnie, jingxian, jingping, me n kehong) winnie, jingxian and jingping are from the other class..but we all noe each other de..winnie n jingxian are super cool gals..and jingping is a funny guy, despite his serious looks..

then we went to 虎山 before ending our zoo trip..we were very entertained by 2 tigers who were fighting.........

then we were off to 灵隐寺! A place of worship and of great historical value..

me and xuan

me and xuan again =)

me and kehong, my classmate/fren/monitor..he's a nice guy..

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weixuan,me, jingping and kehong at 灵隐寺...the background super nice right? anyway, we asked a angmoh to help us take..so nice to meet english-speaking people in China..

we visited 永福寺too, which is just next to 灵隐寺

me and xuan..

we all think that 永福寺is much much more peaceful than 灵隐寺, nice sceneries too...we climbed many stairs to reach here, really beautiful! So think its quite worth it!

yup, tt's all for my sunday trip!