Just Wait

Desperately, helplessly, longingly, I cried;

Quietly, patiently, lovingly, God replied.

I pled and I wept for a clue to my fate...

And the Master so gently said, “Wait.”

“Wait? You say wait?” my indignant reply.

“Lord, I need answers, I need to know why!”

Is your hand shortened? Or have you not heard?

By faith I have asked, and I’m claiming your word.

My future and all to which I relate

Hangs in the balance and you tell me to wait?

I’m needing a ‘yes’, a go-ahead sign.

Or even a ‘no’ to which I’ll resign.

You promised, dear Lord, that if we believe,

We need but to ask, and we shall receive.

Lord, I’ve been asking, and this is my cry:

I’m weary of asking! I need a reply.

Then quietly, softly, I learned of my fate

As my Master replied again, “Wait.”

So I slumped in my chair, defeated and taut,

And grumbled to God, “So, I’m waiting...for what?”

He seemed then to kneel, and His eyes met with mine...

And He tenderly said, “I could give you a sign.

I could shake the heavens and darken the sun.

I could raise the dead and cause mountains to run.

I could give you all you seek and pleased you would be.

You’d have what you want, but you wouldn’t know Me.

You’d not know the depth of My love for each saint.

You’d not know the power that I give to the faint.

You’d not learn to see through clouds of despair;

You’d not learn to trust just by knowing I’m there.

You’d not know the joy of resting in Me

when darkness and silence are all you can see.

You’d never experience the fullness of love

When the peace of My sprit descends like a dove.

You would know that I give and I save, for a start,

But you’d not know the depth of the beat of My heart.

The glow of My comfort late into the night,

The faith that I give when you walk without sight.

The depth that’s beyond getting just what you ask

From an infinite God who makes what you have last.

You’d never know should your pain quickly flee,

What it means that My grace is sufficient for thee.

Yes, your dearest dreams overnight would come true,

But oh, the loss if I lost what I’m doing in you.

So, be silent, my child, and in time you will see

That the greatest of gifts is to truly know me.

And though oft My answers seem terribly late,

My most precious answer of all is still...WAIT”.

“Not only do great scientists ask difficult questions, they ask questions others dare not ask”.

“What is interesting in biology may not be important, but what is important will always be interesting”.

“Most experiments don’t work. If you accept that, you will not be unhappy doing science.”   

“Your research has everything except a voice – you have to speak up for it”.

“When you read scientific papers, imagine they have not been published and you are the reviewer”. 

“In your research be confident in risk taking, but avoid risking your confidence”. 

 “Be wary of speculating based on a speculation”. 

 “Pay attention to controversial science, but beware of controversial scientists”. 

 “Do not write a paper based on circumstantial evidence - you risk being wrongly convicted”. 

 "Experiments give results; there is no such thing as a wrong or a right result". 

 “What is statistically significant may not be biologically significant”. 

 “The most important thing about your manuscript is that it contains enough information for someone else to perform the experiments and reproduce the data”. 

 “It is not usually wise to claim your data proves something - proof in biology is hard to come by”. 

 "Do not discard puzzling experiments; they may be the harbingers of your breakthrough". 

 "Spend a little time occasionally on something trivial; it might create space for scientific inspiration". 

 "Scientific knowledge is not always free, but curiosity is". 

 "To be confident when you deliver a lecture, imagine you know much more about the topic than anyone in the audience".

 "No one except you will remember the stupid question you asked during a seminar; but you will have found out the answer". 

 "There can be scientific knowledge without inspiration, but there cannot be inspiration without scientific knowledge". 

“The best ammunition to challenge suspect dogmas is depth of knowledge”.  

“When it comes to the scientific literature, don’t read all you want -- read all you can”. 

"Many ingredients of success in science cannot be taught, but must be learned. Talk to successful scientists and find out how they made the right decisions and learned from their mistakes". 

  
Fat fat loaf of bread!     


Being introduced to Mr Lobster, Mr beefs..and Mr plants



Our meal arrived!! So much food i thought i'll explode!!


My steak and mash potatoes...of which half went to corn...


Our chocolate lava cake!!! So yummy!! Love the christmas tree in the back ground!


The beautiful christmas tree and us!
***The shadow on my dress makes me look so fat!!! AHHHH***



Then we headed up to mt faber for a climb..got abit lost on the way there and ended up in some cargo container place...and so we had to turn around...got a carpark up on mt faber, and corn was asked by another lady driver to help her parallel park! Gosh...i was so worried he'll crash the car..and the lady driver standing next to me told me "relax...the boys can handle it..they can parallel park one...dont worry". This is what i almost blurted out "he's only been driving for less than 1hr in sg...and he's not driven for over a year since australia" i bet that would have made her less relax. haha..anyway, corn parked nicely...and we had a walk around..took some pictures.Nothing much really...view was much like kings park.

Then off to ecp cos it near home..then home at 12 midnight..coach turns into a pumpkin...grinz...nah..the car didnt turn into a pumpkin but corn was very tired n he had chruch the next day so we ended our date early..=)



Us...always...=)

• Met up with my ex sup Thea and Bijanka, had seafood dinner...but forgot my camera..so no photo
   
• Jeniffer's baby belle is SO SO CUTE!!!Check out her cheeks!!     
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• Tiny uncle left for melb on wednesday..so we went to the airport to see him off...my little cousins are all grown up!!! they used to be shorter than me...
  
   
• Had sushi with the gbers on saturday..cheap sushi buffet, $20 at suki sushi cini.
   
• Cleaned mochi and ocha's cage..thier both nice n fat still..=)...nothing worst than a skinny pet..means thier not well...
   
• Cleared my papars, threw aways all the useless brochers, washed my clothes and cleared my wardrope of old clothes
   
• had dinner w corn with we watched The Island, he borught hokkien mee for me and chicken wings!!!

My fav uncle and his family are back!!! Time to meet up with my cousins and find out what's going on in thier lives! We ate at this Beng Hieng place at amoy street...its nice..but OILY!!!I think all the running i did before dinner was totally wasted. Well..better to have ran then eat rather than no run but still eat! Food was good...oyster omellet my favorite still!

The Family


The Older Generation


My Little cousins, Yien & Ruien, i used to bring to watch movies back in the 1990s...




More cousins Liling and Lien...she's off to cambridge to do med! So this was a farewell dinner too!


Cousin in law Stanley and cousin Lizhen


and....come April next year...we're all gonna be aunts and uncles!!!! AHHHHHH

All in all, it was a good dinner! Ruth was abit high..prob from the endorphines...and well..my crazy uncle and his family is back..so whats there to be sad bout ya!