Day of my life… 5 June 2010

Today marked the 14th day of my chicken pox!

Had a conversation with my mum this morning, confirmed that I’m no longer contagious as most of the lesion has scabbed over and many have fallen, leaving just brown spots waiting to be healed. The complete healing however, will take about a month.

Anyway, my mum urged me to quickly bring Jaelyn for the vaccine. I vaguely remembered she has taken the vaccine but was told by the nurse (ICAC) that it was not recorded in the Health Booklet. (We used to see Dr. Y. Y Yip at SBCC but now he has a new clinic at ICAC, both at Gleneagles) The nurse from SBCC is helpful to help me check Jaelyn’s medical record of all her vaccinations and confirmed that she has taken chicken pox vaccine together with MMR injection on 18 July 2009. However, that was recorded in her health booklet and I really cannot remember how many vaccinations she has taken and did she miss any. The nurse at ICAC said I can request for SBCC to give me a certificate to prove that Jaelyn has completed her necessary vaccination at their clinic, which is something that I would require when Jaelyn goes to Primary One. (Hmm… something new I learnt today)

I still don’t feel very comfortable so I decided to search through the receipts I have kept to verify the date that the nurse gave me. (to think that I kept this kind of receipt right?) And dang dang!!!

She has taken the CHICKEN POX VACCINATION!!! I’m super excited! I’m fetching my princess home!!! I changed the bed sheet for two bedrooms, wipe all her toys & our furniture using Dettol, my hubby helped me to mop the floor with Dettol too! And I’m going to buy Dettol air spray to disinfect the “air” in our house! I’m all ready to welcome my girl back tomorrow!

And I’ve also planned to go for service today after all the chores! Since I can go out, I must go to City Harvest Church for our weekly service! This has been a very tremendous week for our church family. We are in the limelight (press) again, and this time the greatest hit ever. Today (Saturday) is the day in the week that the whole church family most looked forward to since the news broke out on Monday, 31 May 2010 right after Asia Conference 2010.

I’m extremely excited to be able to make it for the service!

Really glad that we not only make it for service, but also for the pre-service prayer meeting. (Took a picture because we seldom get to attend service together when Jaelyn is around as someone needs to be with her at the playgroup) The service was great. There’s an atmosphere of love and unity and strong presence of the love of God. I’m proud to be part of the City Harvest family, so proud that our church members are all standing strong and tall! The video clip by Pastor Phil Pringles brought me to tears, his love for us and his believing in us meant so much in this tough time. Pastor Derek shared a short word but that is enough because we all know that the church members all came prepared to fight this fight of faith together, we are well taught and trained to pray & seek the Lord for encouragement, vision & revelation. I know the main purpose we showed up today is to show that we support the church and we love our Pastor! This church has taught us well that we do not build our faith on men but we build our altar on God. What will happen to City Harvest Church? Let me answer you, we will be stronger and we will emerge victoriously!

After service, we have a great time of fellowship with our cell group, eating fabulous food at a restaurant at Bedok! I’m sure going to bring my parents there soon!

Following, my hubby & me spent some quality time together, go dating! We went for a movie at Downtown East, watching Prince of Persia! It was a great movie with fantastic ending! Definitely worth watching with a great message of pureness of heart and importance of family. Oh… and I sinned a little having Magnum Gold ice-cream! Double wow wow!

And yes, I remembered to buy the Dettol air spray before the start of the movie. I have a great day today! It’s wonderful to be out and breathing after 14 days of home quarantine.

To end off, I just want to say, “ Love God, live life & love living!”

Grounded Day 12

3 June 2010, Thursday, the 12th day that I’m being grounded home due to my chicken pox.

Went to the doctor early this morning to get some cough syrup and to ask him if I’m alright to go out. Sad to hear that my poxy scabs have not fallen off, it’s still better to stay home. Doctor said though it is not as contagious as the blister but it’s STILL CONTAGIOUS!

If you have not gotten chicken pox, I would strongly recommend you to take the vaccine, especially if you are an adult. It is usually more severe in adults and take longer to heal. There is higher chance of complication as well. I had very high fever for 2 days and very bad body ache before the onset of the blisters.

Ok… enough of the chicken pox story… It’s 12.30am and I can’t get to sleep. Too much of slacking and plus the cough syrup I took in the afternoon caused me to nap till 6pm. Now I’m wide awake!

I’m really missing my bubbly 2 year old, who is staying at my mum’s place due to my poxy.

Let me use this opportunity to update her pictures!!!

In the next blog entry…

Asia Conference vs. Poxy Pox

In the blogging mood today… so better hurry!

I missed the whole Asia Conference 2010 due to my chicken pox! But I’m just so so so thankful for the thoughtfulness of City Harvest Church! They created this iPhone App – AC Radio and being an iPhone user, I benefited greatly from this app.

Almost all the preaching sessions were aired “live” via AC Radio so that I can be greatly blessed by great messages from great men of God.

A few pointers that I have caught during this Asia Conference which greatly touched my life. First of all was the Friday morning session by Dr. David Yonggi Cho. His preaching is simple yet full of anointing. I was especially inspired when he shared that we must “always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus Christ, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.” quoted from the bible 2 Corinthians 4:10. It was as if the Holy Spirit spoke directly into my heart! He said that Christians must not have inferior complexity because Christ is living in us. I was greatly moved. His words reminded me that I am someone worthy, at least worth Jesus dying for. Immediately I am so lifted up in the spirit.

Following this session was a powerful sharing by the world renowned evangelist Rev. Reinhard Bonnke. His faith in God and love for people is amazing! He is so bold! I’m so blown away.

I was looking forward to Sunday morning service that will be broadcast over the internet. First visual contact with Asia Conference and is Dr. Yonggi Cho again!

(I even took a picture of Dr. David Yonggi Cho off the laptop screen!)

He said, “Christianity without miracles is no Christianity at all”. I really love his 4th dimensional teachings on praying, believing, visualizing and confessing!

Asia Conference ended with a big big blast with Dr. A.R Bernard closing the conference with an impactful word! He shared about being the “Model Citizen”! I’m so touched by his sharing on the reconciliation of God. God is not just into reconciling man’s relationship to God, but also reconciling man to his original self concept (man is created in the image of God)!!!

I can’t agree more to this! I have studied before on the discrepancy between the “real self” and the “ideal self” that people have. The message that Dr. Bernard preached is so true! We need to be reconciled back to the original self concept that God has given to mankind. It’s so important for us to have a good self image in line with God’s original intention!

I believe in everyone’s heart, there is an “Ideal self” that we always wanted to be. We want to do great things, the desire for greatness is the piece of eternity that God has put in our heart. Let us be bold to live out the true self! Let’s pray, confess, believe and visualize and bring that which is non-existence into existence! We can achieve happiness, prosperity and progress in our life! Amen!

Chicken Pox…

Today is the first day of Asia Conference 2010. An event that everyone around me has been looking forward to. Just by reading the tweet over the past few days, you can almost sense the excitement in the air.

Initially I am so looking forward to it too! I thought since I’m not working, I am going to attend all sessions of Asia Conference!

Lo and behold, last Saturday I started to have high fever… the fever didn’t go down on Sunday and I started to develop small blisters on my body and forehead. I went to see doctor again and confirmed its CHICKEN POX!

I have not seen Jaelyn since that Sunday and know so very well that I am missing Asia Conference. I can’t attend even a single session!

This morning, when I checked my twitter and facebook, everyone is talking about how amazing was the opening, how great was the word given by Dr. Cho. I went to Attributes website and checked the pricing of the DVDs. It costs $269.16. For someone who is not working, I simply can’t afford it.

Sigh…