Beware of photos: They may cause mild shock


Sentosa outings used to be exclusively for girls...


We tried to take off our clothes.. :X


Another Sentosa outing...


Wahhh this is classic. I think this was in 2002/03? Qing Huai came in to lead us when Shuhui couldn't make it for cell group.

The four of us sat at Admiralty MRT Mac (pre-renovation) after youth service, took loads of silly pictures and just talked.


We were in red tees because we had our Youth Sunday in 2005. We stayed out till late at night, hanging out at the waterfront of Esplanade

Here's another picture taken in 2005, during Hui Lin's baptism. I remember it was the Singapore Idol craze, so we made placards for her during her baptism!


This was taken when we (Sihui, Sarah, Angie and me) got baptised in 2003.

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When we were young, we had our fair share of fashion faux pas (I remember the episode where the whole bunch of us came in to church with badly-drawn eyeliners and gave KK a shock).

Yet we were happy and we didn't care what others said about us. We served the Lord together, laughed, lamented about school and cried together during cell group sharings.

Now that we are all grown up, we move into various serving areas - cell group leading, missions, usher, music/worship leading...etc, move into different cell groups and dream different dreams. We just grew up.

We may no longer sit down, talk about anything under the sun, gossip about boys, play silly games and hang out till the middle of the night, like how we used to in secondary school.

But one thing I'm thankful was that we had these times.

Growing pains? No.
I had growing joys, because you all made adolescence more bearable.

And I promise I will make more effort to keep our friendships together.
(This line applies to all my dear friends from school as well)

When I've come to this stage of my life, I realise life is nothing interesting if you don't have good friends; life is sucky if you don't have friends whom you can confide in during your down times; life is lonely if you don't have friends to share your joy.
I don't make friends for networking. I don't care about networking seriously.

So yes, one more resolution for this year: Make efforts to keep friendships, be it meeting up for tea/lunch, sending smses/emails or organising a day-out at Sentosa... One word: PROACTIVE!