A New Year's Kick-Off

January hasn't ended yet, so this post is still valid as the "beginning of the year" post.

Alot has happened this month, though it's only the first month of the year!
2nd to 4th Jan. --> went to HK Disneyland. Awesomeness! Not only the place, but also the time spent with friends and especially my family. Talking about my family, all of the Tjoandi kids got DS's now! Haha! JB and I got ours for our Christmas presents. So thankful for it coz now I don't have to "complain" about my school trips. But then again, DS sometimes kills time. Must take note, NOT to play it overboard.

School started on Jan.7. Most of the modules are quite "deep", coz it's now dealing with how to teach. More psychology is taught. YES! More Piaget, Vygotsky, and Bruner. As for my history modules, it's not that bad. I guess I need God's wisdom, patience, and peace to guide me through.

These are the modules that I'm taking this semester:

AAH 202 - Historical Interpretations
AAH 236 - Australia and Asia
ACE 201 - Teaching Reading and Writing I
ACM 201 - The Teaching and Learning of Primary Mathematics I
ACI 201 - Music Curriculum I

The curriculum modules were the toughest, especially Math and English. It's coz I have to connect myself to the Singapore education system. Well, it should be no problem right, coz this year is a year of greater increase! With greater increase, there will be ... greater responsibilities and challenges. =)


I'm also starting off the new year by claiming the Word that 2008 is a year of GREATER INCREASE. What's past is past. What's in front is going to be greater.
As I hold on to Deuteronomy 28:2, I hope this Word will also encourage you to claim God's promises in your life. When I read this, honestly, I had goosebumps. Everytime I said it, I will also feel the same. Coz I was just thinking, do I really deserve this from God?! A sinful person I am?
God remains faithful, yeah. And I thank God that His faithfulness surrounds me forever.

Deut.28
2 All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God:

3 You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.

4 The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock--the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

5 Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.

6 You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.

7 The LORD will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.

8 The LORD will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The LORD your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.

9 The LORD will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the LORD your God and walk in his ways. 10 Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will fear you. 11 The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity--in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground--in the land he swore to your forefathers to give you.

12 The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. 13 The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom. 14 Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them.