It’s been quite a while since I last posted on this blog.. hmm over a year, I have forgotten to write since I went on holiday June/July last year. Many things have happened between that holiday and today, most of them are good things and when I look back I can see God’s hands working in my life. I was worried about my Tax exam but as usual was confident that I would pass all units on my last semester. Nevertheless, I refused to check my results on the uni website coz it would ruin my holiday if I failed any units and I didn’t want to have to cut back my precious one-month holiday just to sit for the supplementary exam.

First, I went to Jakarta and stayed at my auntie’s waiting for my sister who arrived 10 days later. During this time, my auntie accompanied me to shop for office outfits in anticipation of my future ‘office’ job. When my sister came, she came down with flu and we had to stay home for 3 days, how boring! I was glad to see my sister again after 4 years, unfortunately we had disagreements and quarrelled a couple of times. We have both grown up in different surroundings and have very different personalities, though I admit that my jokes must have gone too far but it all worked out in the end peacefully.

We spent few more days in Jakarta visiting my other auntie and 3 cousins whom I haven’t seen for more than 10 years! It was great getting to know them, I was only 9 when I met them the last time. Then it was time to say goodbye. My sister n I flew to Makassar, a city I haven’t seen for years. To cut a long story short, we met the family, my two younger twin sisters have grown to teenagers, how I missed out seeing them growing up, this is a sacrifice I had to make to pursue education in a foreign country. I stayed in my hometown Parepare for 2 weeks, I wish I could stay longer to get to know the twins and my youngest brother better.

Back in Darwin I found out that I had failed the Tax exam n missed the supplementary exam! Gee, I cried n started to think about terrible consequences: how I wouldn’t be able to graduate at the end of that year n get a job, how disappointing I would be to my family n my guardians. I thought I was going mad! After 2 days I calmed down n God took care of the rest. Everything went smooth. I sat for another supplementary exam, got a pass mark, and got a job at the end of the year! How great is the Lord. He didn’t stop His blessings at that. I also got the permanent resident visa within only 3 months of my application, which is real fast! My mum and auntie also came to Darwin for 2 weeks in May this year to attend my graduation ceremony. They enjoyed their time here though my auntie got really sick n had to return at the end of the first week.

When I look at all the events that have happened in the past year, I can see God’s wonderful blessings which are never-ending. Praise the Lord!!

Finally, I finished my exams!!  I had 3 exams, 2 accounting units and 1 taxation.. The accounting ones went ok, I think, but the last one, taxation is very difficult. When I saw the paper, I just had no idea where to start and how I was gonna answer it. We could bring the legislation book into the exam but there was no straight answer questions. I had to look and even though I tagged my book in detail I still had difficulties finding where things were. I guess that's because I never done the weekly tutorial homework. I was too busy to do my assignments coz they were pretty big.. I prepared for the tax exam exactly 4 days before it was on, and since I had to study it for the first time I took such a long time to finish reading 13 topics. That's what happened if you try to do 13 weeks work into 4 days. In the exam I hardly remember all the details. I'm just hoping that I can pass this exam, this unit, and all the other units that I did this semester.

For now, I've been playing computer games n checking my e-mails n surfing the net. I'm so glad exams over n holiday begins  I'm going home this holiday, gotta see my family after 3.5 years. 4 days to go before I'm flying!! What's more, I'm going to see my sister who is also coming home this holiday!! We haven't seen each other for 4 years. WOW.. It's gonna be so exciting  I thank God for helping me in my exams, please help me pass, Father! God has been so kind to me. He made everything falls into place so that I can get my ticket and everything He arranges so that I can go home this holiday. Thank you Lord. Please help me to be able share you with my parents and sisters and brother. I hope this holiday will be exciting, I'm already excited at the thought of it!! Gotta do lotsa eating, sightseeing, shopping, comics reading, and talking of course  Take care everyone, God loves you and be with you always

I've been studying for my exams but some things keep bothering me, so I think I'll just write them here. I've been a Christian for more than a year now, I can notice some changes in me although not much. For example, before I received Jesus in my life, I got angry easily and got offended over very little things. When I did bad things to people I didn't feel as much guilty as I do now. I think the Holy Spirit is working to convict me of my bad behaviour that I feel bad as soon as I hurt other people or I think I do anyway, sometimes not intentionally. But the thing is, now I don't get offended as easily as I did before, but the people around me, I think they're very sensitive. Even things that I didn't think they'd get offended, they took offense anyway. So I find it very hard to keep up with people's feelings. It's like I have to watch every little thing that I do or say around them, in case they don't like it and get offended by it. So difficult man..

I know that I'm not perfect, in fact, I'm still too far from perfect. There's a lot of things I need to work on improving. I need to learn to be humble coz I'm very very proud, I need to learn to have a servant's heart coz, really, I always think about my own needs first then other people's. I'm still very natural but God will work on me. I'm like gold in the fire, God will refine me and strip me off my pride and selfishness. But this is a process, it cannot happen in one day. I get confused in a lot of things. And these people around me always get angry at the slightest things that's not worth being angry about. I feel upset when people get angry with me coz there'll be a wall I need to break through to get to them. Sometimes I feel like I just don't care, if they don't want to talk to me so what? But still, it keeps bothering me.. and I can only give it to God.

Done with it! Done with it! Yess!!

Hahaha.. just wanna tell the world I'm done with those assignments.. Thanks to dear God of course, done with it at the last minute.. Now, just hoping to pass all units this semester, a bit worried though, coz my assignments don't have that much quality, but again.. who am I to worry? God can handle that. And I know He'll give the best things in life for His children. Yes!! one more time. Now just gonna take a break from study, gotta do house-cleaning tomorrow the whole day, how BORiNG.. but hey, everybody in the house will be doing it, so.. you won't be alone, hehehe... Then, Sunday, gotta start my study marathon towards the coming exams in 8 days!! Well, I've left so much readings and tute homework behind and I have so much to catch up  but again.. my song is.. GIVE IT TO FATHER! GIVE IT TO FATHER! HE'S DONE IT BEFORE, HE'LL HELP ME AGAIN!! Just wanna praise Him now, thanks Jesus for all you've done for everyone.. God is so Good, He's so Great, so WonderFul.. gotta catch that bus Father, praise You again

Hi fren! How are you today? I'm fine, but feel a bit tired coz I spent the whole day staring at the computer screen. As usual, I'm not only doing my assignment, I also spent much more time surfing the net and that made me tired  Well, the assignment is due in 4 days.. Why am I still so relax? In the past, I'd have stressed out 2 weeks before it's due. I guess I got bored with this assignment, coz it keeps on and on I don't know when it's gonna finish, but when it is, I'll be very very glad. One thing I know for sure is that whatever I get for this assignment, God has planned for it. I'm not saying that God will help me anyway even though I'm lazy but that whatever I get, be it good or bad, in the long run it will be for God's glory. Somehow, God will work it out to work for the good of those who believe in Him for His glory on earth. So I'm gonna do my best.. today is not bad after all.. I got more information and just need to make my assignment a little better..

Anyway, God bless everyone, including you, of course, coz He created you to do good things He has planned long before life began.. Praise the Lord  today and let's pray that He will bless us with courage to stand out from the world, to shine His love to unbelievers, to be good examples for new believers, to stand firm and grow in our faith in Him. We can't change the world but we can make it a better place to live, a more friendly place to share with our brothers and sisters, while we're waiting for our real HOME to come..