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Life Story: Kok Meng ( Friday, 8 June 2007 )PDF인쇄이메일
ImageI grew up at middle class family. My father worked at construction industry; he is responsible and a workaholic person. He makes sure our financial stable and able to support daily provision. My mother is a housewife, take care of our needs and household chore. I got four siblings, my eldest brother, eldest sister, younger sister and I am the third.
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Life Story: Evelyn ( Thursday, 11 September 2008 )PDF인쇄이메일
EvelynI'm nowFive years as a Christian. Looking back at my life, before I get to know God life is a mess for me. Not knowing my direction in life and like everyone else I chase after success and satisfaction in life. To achieve that, I will do whatever possible to make sure that I excel in my studiesand the things that I do.Ibecame competitive, insensitive,and find it hard ...
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Life-story: Caroline Lai ( Saturday, 18 August 2007 )PDF인쇄이메일
(Written by Caroline Lai on June 2007. Thanks for Chong Siew Fong who has helped to edit this life-story thoroughly.)

Hi, my name is Caroline Lai. I was raised in a middle class family. I have one elder brother and a pair of twin sisters and I am the second child in the family. Before my father's retirement, he worked at the Ministry of Health as an officer where he conducted courses and gave special talks. My mother worked as an Account ...
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Jee Eng PDF 인쇄 이메일
작성자 Steve Ngai   
Tuesday, 22 May 2007
ImageI'm born into a typical middle-class family. I'm the eldest, with one brother and one sister. Both my parents are working professionals and from young, we were taught to always strive for the best in life. I have friends, lots of them but even though we were close, I still felt there's a barrier between us. My parents emphasized academic excellence and enhancing skills but never really taught us how to overcome anger, resolve conflicts, cope with disappointments and all the other emotions that we humans being faced. Their favourite motto is, "Sleep on it and it will be better tomorrow". The fact is, we went through life by sweeping things under the carpet and not addressing the real issue. As such, I find myself achieving As and having lots of skills but don't know how to recognize my emotions and expressing them out. Being a logical person myself, I tend to think in processes and methods. Sure, I know how to give an opinion (looking back, I'm so proud and opinionated), but when it comes to matters of the heart, I don't know how to say it out. I even have difficulty saying words such as "Thank you", "I'm sorry", "I love you". Furthermore, I found that I have no one safe to be vulnerable with, as trustworthy friends are really hard to find.

When I was 21 years old, Patricia asked me to attend church and study the Bible. I rejected at first, for I thought Christianity is only for the weak. Since I'm not weak, I don't need this religion! But as my friend persuaded, I began to see her sincerity. Patricia couldn't be anymore different than I. She only studied up to Standard 6 and she spoke to me in broken English mixed with Cantonese. But her love for me won me over. She cooked my favourite dishes and really listened to me. For the first time, I felt no barriers. She didn't want anything from me nor expect me to behave in a certain way according to her standards. It was a simple act of friendship and that's what mattered.

When I studied the Bible, I saw that this is what I needed to turn my empty life around. I'm sick of being superficial and I want to be real and open. My heart was refreshed because for the first time, I exercised my heart instead of my mind. Slowly but surely, I learnt to have more self-awareness of my emotions and learnt some life-coping skills such as how to resolve conflict and still remain as friends, how to deal with jealousy towards other people, how to express myself when my parents hurt me, how to reconcile with my siblings, and so many more valuable lessons which money can't buy!

In fact, after being a Christian for 11 years now, I'm still learning about myself and my relationships with other people. I'm so grateful that God, the Bible and the Christians are helping me daily. I believe that if Patricia didn't ask me to study the Bible, I would be an intellectual monster by now ... loud, uncouth, stomping her way angrily through life without a hint of compassion, gentleness or graciousness.

Today, I enjoy small pleasures like going on short trips with parents, chatting on the phone with my sister, going for hair-cuts together with my brother in a unisex salon, making desserts for my relatives, hanging out with my grandparents and learning to be so gut-wrenchingly honest about my fears and insecurities to them in addition to my friends.

This is just one part of my life. There are many more parts which I've changed and still changing. Life is beautiful!

From,
Jee Eng
 
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