2011: The year of His crowned goodness.

So I said I’ll blog everyday. I’m 12 days late, but here is my first #Postaday2011 entry.

Today’s topic is: What are you looking forward to this year?

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Somewhere in the continuum of space and time, something shifted; and the Roman calendar announced that a new year had begun.

Nothing perceptible had changed – not one that was observable anyway. The air smelled the same, and the sky remained as dark as it did every other night when the clock struck twelve. But somewhere in the heart of every person, as the sun made it’s orbit and each slice of our world took their dutiful turns to greet this invisible newness, a sense of hope bubbled to the surface.

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There is nothing like the smell of untapped potential that surrounds the concept of a ‘New Year’. The potential for change, renewing, strengthening. The potential in such a seemingly arbitrary day; a second, third, forth chance to be the person you’ve always wanted to be but have yet to become.

It it almost halfway through the first month of the year. How time flies. 50 more weeks to 2012, what are you going to do with them? Something good, I hope.

For me, I’m looking forward to a great internship experience and learning a lot, then going back to school and doing a kickass project with my FYP mates. For my personal life, I’m going to spend more time with God and learn to once again enjoy singlehood after a four-year relationship. I did not expect it to end, neither did many of my old friends, but a heart cannot be forced to love, and I cannot keep what wasn’t mine to possess. Soo… Singlehood is good, I shall enjoy it and enjoy Jesus, and enjoy a year of goodness and favour and accelerated growth!

Also one big thing I’m looking forward to, is for Noodle to finally be housebroken!!!
For the severely uninformed, and it would be really severe because I haven’t shut up about my new corgi since I got him, yes I now haz a doggeh.

Unfortunately the inexperienced members of the Lee family trained him wrongly and we’re now trying to undo the damage we caused. Noodle is now afraid to pee/poop in front of us and only does it in secret when we’re out of sight. AND he does it in all the wrong places AND decidedly tramples over everything, pee, poop and all and makes a tiring mess several times a day.

I’m almost at my wit’s end over what to do but I shall just have to be patient with him. All the websites point to my failure to train him properly (it’s never the puppy’s fault). But I have dedicated this precious new member of my family to God and know that it SHALL BE GOOD. NOODLE WILL BE A GOOD BOY. Yes.

So like any proud mother, the rest of the entry is going to be pictures of the adorable 3 month old Noodle. And yes, that’s what I’m looking forward to this year.

Peace out and stuff.
Lizzy.

Bible Verses Calendar Giveaway!

Okay folks, as promised earlier on Twitter, I will be giving away an A4 copy of the 2011 Bible Verses Calendar! This is my first time doing a blog giveaway so let’s see how it goes!

There are 3 ways to enter this giveaway. Each person may have up to 3 chances to win the calendar based on the methods below. You may only use each method once. Duplicate entries of each type from the same person will be rendered void.

How to win a 2011 Bible Verses Calendar:

1. Direct Comment
Leave a comment below with your favourite Bible verse and why. (Remember to include your name/email to qualify!)

2. Twitter
Tweet (or retweet from friends) the link to this entry and include my Twitter handle (@lizzaeh)
Follow up by leaving a comment on this post with the permalink to your tweet on this entry.
Remember to include your name/email.
All steps must be completed to qualify.

How to: (from Squidoo.com)

3. Facebook
Share the link to the giveaway on Facebook. Follow up by leaving a comment on this post with the permalink to your Facebook post. Remember to include your name/email.
All steps must be completed to qualify.

How to: (from Squidoo.com)

Terms and regulations:
1. This giveaway will run until Wednesday, 5 January 2011, 2359h and is only open to those living in Singapore.
2. All incomplete entries (without name/email) will be rendered void.
3. If the randomly selected winner is found to be living outside Singapore, the entry will be considered void and a new winner will be selected.
4. The winner of the giveaway will be notified via email and is to reply within 24hours. If not, the entry will be considered void and a new winner will be selected.

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As a reminder, you can find out here how to purchase these calendars here.
The deadline to ORDER the calendars is Friday, 7 January, 2359h, GMT +8:00 (Singapore time).
The deadline for the above giveaway competition is Wednesday, 5 January, 2359h, GMT +8:00 (Singapore time).

Okay, that’s it for now, looking forward to your support on my virgin blog giveaway!

Also, since I’ve got your attention.
Everyone please meet my new Corgi puppy, Noodle!

We just collected him this evening and he’s still figuring out where we want him to pee and stuff, but he is the cutest thing ever and such a handsome little, short leggy, white pawed boy.

A Day By The Lake

Jun Hua and I celebrated our last day of school by nua-ing by the lake on the green, green grass in the beautiful park… people watching (seems to be their favourite past time here) and enjoying very good vanilla cream pastry. Mmmmmmmmm.

Soooooooooooooooo goooooooooooooooooooooooooooood……….

(Last but not least me having a very bad hair day.)

The Village of Brè… and cats.

No need for many words, this entry.

The Village of Brè is a teeny little medieval village (population: 300) on the eastern slope of Monte Brè. The architecture is uniquely quaint. The cats are really fat. And I wish I had a house there. For reclusive artistic purposes.

I’ll say it again. I wish I had a house here.

My favourite dog.

Been having to go to my Aunt’s place to get some jabs in recent months. Yes my aunt’s a doctor which makes it harder to run from your injections. If you don’t go to HER, she’ll bring the jab to YOU.

So.. Well. I go there to get needles stuck in me, which I don’t like. (Who does, anyway?)

But the best part about going there… is that we’re always welcomed by the permanently excited and happy Snowball the Maltese.

The pictures will speak for themselves. You are so cute. And oh she’s wearing pyjamas. How cute can you get?

Here she is snuggling against my jeans. She just comes up next to you to cuddle once you sit on the floor.

So so cute.

Snail says hi.

There were lots of snails in Joo Chiat after the rain… near the cats.

Snail says hi.

I like cats, a lot.

A little too much. But they like me too, so that’s good.